I'm reading the book The Glass Castle. This is probably one of the first books I've had to read in a class that I actually like and it's not like pulling teeth to get through it.
That makes me question what qualities need to be there to make a story or a book enjoyable? I used to think that it was being able to relate to the story but clearly thats not true with this story. I have never been in any situation even relatively close to the things that this women has gone through and I'm pretty sure that no one I know has gone through things like this.
So maybe what makes a story likeable is when it shows you something that you've never seen before. But thats can't be the case because every story we have read from the Norton has been slighty boring and hard to get through at times and they all presented things I've never dealt with.
This leaves me to believe that maybe it has nothing to do with what the bookis about and really about how the author writes the story. So then, is there ever really a good story, or just good authors?
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You raise such intriguing questions here! What makes a story enjoyable or likeable...this is something your circle should definitely talk about. Is a good story all in the telling, or does it need an appealing plot and characters, too?
I absolutely agree with you. It's very interesting to think about what story's that we really do enjoy and what story's we do not enjoy.
That's a great question that I cannot even answer for myself. What is it that interests me in certain books. Is it the action? The type of characters? The way the story is written perhaps?
This is really something to think about and I would love to find out the answer to why people enjoy certain stories and do not!
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