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What elements are, in your opinion, necessary to make a good book? (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by Eq0@literature.cafe to c/fiction@literature.cafe

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Is it interesting characters? Or believable motivations? Maybe writing style? Is the world building?

And how likely are you to enjoy a book that doesn’t fit your own criteria?

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[–] lightsecond@lemmy.fedireads.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consistency in character.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely! What book did you like that had good characters?

[–] lightsecond@lemmy.fedireads.com 3 points 1 year ago

I’m currently reading The Moor’s Last Sigh by Rushdie. His narrators tend to be wacky and his characters often do unconventional things, but when you read these books, you never feel like someone did something out of character. You read something outrageous and still feel like the character would definitely have done or said that.