7 things I can't stand in books
Nov 27, 2023 0:52:47 GMT -5
Post by account_disabled on Nov 27, 2023 0:52:47 GMT -5
Even though we love to read, we are not always satisfied by reading. So I wanted to list everything I don't like in the books I read, things that I would change if I could. In a way I can do it, when I self-publish, but with a publisher I don't know if it will be possible. 1 – The lack of the index I'm obsessed with the index. I don't know why, but it's one of the first things I look at in a book. Often it is not included, when perhaps the novel is just a traditional sequence of chapters, but I remember some classic novels that had it anyway, indicating “Chapter I”, “Chapter II” and so on. An index helps you to orient yourself in the story, to also know at what point you have reached, how much you are missing from the end, but in some cases it is necessary, as in novels divided into parts and with chapters that also have a title.
Notes at the end of the book or chapter and not at the Phone Number Data end of the page I don't know why many publishers have this habit of forcing the reader to go to the end of the book, where the notes are inserted all together, decontextualized, in a dead zone, as if they were truly buried in the information cemetery. Notes should be inserted at the end of the page, when the reader can read them at a glance. You don't save space by placing them at the end of the chapter or the end of the book. Rather, it wastes readers' time and patience. 3 – The irrelevant cover Lately the covers leave a lot to be desired. I remember those of Terry Brooks' first novels: I enjoyed discovering, while reading, which scene the cover illustration represented. And in those cases I guessed right.
The covers of George Martin's novels, created with cold 3D graphics, were done, in my opinion, without even having read a page of those stories. Often we prefer to offer an epic, scenic, striking image, as in the case of Cussler's novel The Deer Hunter , which shows a non-existent scene. Instead, I would like the cover of a novel to take inspiration from a real scene in the story. Can it be that difficult? 4 – The year of incomprehensible edition This happens quite rarely, but many times I read an incomprehensible sequence of numbers and dates that I can't understand. For example, in the book Business Model You I read: Reprint: 4 3 2 1 0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 What the hell does that mean? 5 – The paragraphs with the plot of the book To be abolished. Totally.
Notes at the end of the book or chapter and not at the Phone Number Data end of the page I don't know why many publishers have this habit of forcing the reader to go to the end of the book, where the notes are inserted all together, decontextualized, in a dead zone, as if they were truly buried in the information cemetery. Notes should be inserted at the end of the page, when the reader can read them at a glance. You don't save space by placing them at the end of the chapter or the end of the book. Rather, it wastes readers' time and patience. 3 – The irrelevant cover Lately the covers leave a lot to be desired. I remember those of Terry Brooks' first novels: I enjoyed discovering, while reading, which scene the cover illustration represented. And in those cases I guessed right.
The covers of George Martin's novels, created with cold 3D graphics, were done, in my opinion, without even having read a page of those stories. Often we prefer to offer an epic, scenic, striking image, as in the case of Cussler's novel The Deer Hunter , which shows a non-existent scene. Instead, I would like the cover of a novel to take inspiration from a real scene in the story. Can it be that difficult? 4 – The year of incomprehensible edition This happens quite rarely, but many times I read an incomprehensible sequence of numbers and dates that I can't understand. For example, in the book Business Model You I read: Reprint: 4 3 2 1 0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 What the hell does that mean? 5 – The paragraphs with the plot of the book To be abolished. Totally.