The Reader's Motivations to Reading
should the read fuss and question the contents of what is out there for them to read.
in other wods
1) what kind of reader are you?
2) what should you look for in books?
3) should you be as demanding and as exigeant as any publisher/editor out there?
4) are you passive or active reader?
has writing become MATERIALISTIC and has reading become dependably EASY?
Last edited by Nacian; 11-08-2011 at 06:51 PM.
I like an interesting plot, likable characters (sometimes one with bad pasts), suspense and plot twists. Being vivid and creative is also a bonus to me. I like imaginative ideas.
Some exceptions to this would be a christmas carol by dickens and a few other stories I can 't remember right now.
I always have my nose stuck in a book. (Well lately I haven't. I've been very busy)! I miss my reading actually. I like anything with romance. It doesn't have to be a mushy love story, it just has to have some sort of an attraction going on with the characters. A hint that something is there is all it takes for me to be completely absorbed. I LOVE my supernatural stories. I think the normal romance books are good, like Nora Roberts rocks, but the stuff she writes about I could live each day myself. I like being taken away to a world that I'll never actually have the opportunity to live out in real life. Being chased by werewolves, bitten by vampires, spells cast on me from witches, fairies trying to get me to dance for an eturnity is not something that I'll ever experience accept through the brilliance of someone eles's imagination. I very much enjoy Distopian novels as well, although, I am just beginning to get into them. I've only read 3 so far, but I'm loving the concept. (Must be a love story in it, however!)
I don't like sad endings. That goes for books and movies. I want to read something, that when I close the cover, I feel good about what I just read. When I was younger I LOVED those tear jerker movies where I'd sit and ball and use a whole box of kleenex in one sitting. I loved the tragic stories that tugged on my heart. Now, I'm just not cut out for it. I want to be happy. I want to smile when I'm done with a book. Besides, very very few authors have the ability to make me cry while reading (which is strange because I am very emotional and cry easily.) I guess I just never believe the bad stuff when someone dies in a book... I think it's like a Soap Opera, they always come back somehow.
“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.” ― City of Glass by Cassandra Clare.
do you think readers should have a say on what should be written inbooks generally?Originally Posted by matsuiny2004
for example should a reader say for example I want a story that has a bit of action/ then bravery/then originality..and so on and then the writer should go and apply that.?
so that when you read the book you have more or less all teh ingredients but you are not sure of what the pudding is like for example?
I think it is good for the writer to be able to decide this without my input. If the writer gets nothing out of doing this for themselves then there is not much point in writing. HUmans are a reward based species. ALthough there is nothing wrong with giving the writer ideas or input and having them decide if it fits the story and belongs in the story.
why not?
isn't your input greater then the writer's?
Why should it be?
you PAY for it and you take it all in?!!
I am paying for that authors perspective and what they did with my input, not to see my own ideas on paper. Wouldn't be much point in telling my own story if somebody was telling that same exact story.
I mostly read non fiction. But in fiction I want characters that are not 2 dimensional, there is a lot of that nowadays. I want to feel that the writer feels for the characters and has not just knocked them together to push the story through. Some younger fiction is all about the theme (Warewolves, vampires, timeriders) and the characters have little depth.
If a work of fiction leaves an impression on me then it has done its job.
everyone else is writing their life story.
that is the norme today.
there is only so many type of books out there.
I personally find it hard to buy a book to read because there are thousands of them out there.
what to do and where to begin always kreeps when I am in a bookstore.
I don't know what I am looking for apart the subheadings of fiction/non fition..they all look the same and so I do not enjoy finding a book.
for me, and I am a kind of reader that have ideas inmind of what I want to read.
for example I like to read about how people live and progress with time. see that is a specific topic I would like to explore in books.
when I am in abookstore it is not there.
so every reader is different . I read for different reasons then say you.
so if it is not there because the writer cannot get into thousands of people's psychic, then I naturally thought hey why not get the reader involved in having as much say on books as a writer?!
the kind of stuff I want to read is difficult to get hold off.
not many books out there for I want to read ..at least I knwo like you know what I am looking for in a book so it is not all doom and gloom.
As far as Fiction goes, I believe most readers read for the emotional high.
Excitement, fear, passion, shock, anger, worry, sadness, elation, awe. Could you put a price on these emotions if they could be purchased at the store?
How much would you be willing to spend for a dose of heart-pounding fear that swelled into a release of satisfaction and wonder?
How much would you pay to swim with hungry sharks in a storm-filled ocean, as your friend clung to you, bleeding from his leg? How much would you pay to battle lions in a dusty arena with a determined gladiator by your side?
How much would you pay to stand with construction workers at the top of the Empire State Building when it was still a towering steel frame, and every howling gust of wind threatened to hurl you off the edge into the gaping city below?
What if I handed you a book and told you it's all in there? Would you read it?
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- Haruki Murakami
everyone else is writing their life story.
that is the norme today.
there is only so many type of books out there.
I personally find it hard to buy a book to read because there are thousands of them out there.
what to do and where to begin always kreeps when I am in a bookstore.
I don't know what I am looking for apart the subheadings of fiction/non fition..they all look the same and so I do not enjoy finding a book.
for me, and I am a kind of reader that have ideas inmind of what I want to read.
for example I like to read about how people live and progress with time. see that is a specific topic I would like to explore in books.
when I am in abookstore it is not there.
so every reader is different . I read for different reasons then say you.
so if it is not there because the writer cannot get into thousands of people's psychic, then I naturally thought hey why not get the reader involved in having as much say on books as a writer?!
Maybe you could find books with complex character arcs? That would fit what you are looking for, many interrelated complex character arcs. You could try google?
Last edited by matsuiny2004; 11-08-2011 at 10:49 PM.
Ummmm... Yes!
“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.” ― City of Glass by Cassandra Clare.
1) I'm the kind of reader that wants to be entertained by the book I'm reading.
2) What should you look for? That varies from person to person. What do I look for? I like characters I can care about, plots that are bigger than they first appear, and a captivating writing style.
3) At least as much. If you're not, what's the point of their existence?
4) What do you mean?
Nope. If the writer didn't want to use his own voice and thoughts, he wouldn't have become a writer. You ask above if writing has become materialistic, and it only becomes that way if you're writing for the reader instead of yourself.
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