I don't get it

[maderr]

I read so many ebooks (Samantha: there's your problem) where the premise gives some long, difficult problem through which the chars will have to work....and then I start to read, and fives pages in the pimped problem is resolved and the story is about something else entirely.

It seriously pisses me off. I don't like being lied to, and if you have to lie about your book to sell it?

FAIL.

Leaving soon to fly home. I don't want to go back to fucking work. Thinking about it makes me phsyically ill

Pictures and trip post to come once I'm home and can upload my pics and stuff.

Man, I love PA.

Comments

[scary-sushi.livejournal.com]

FAIL indeed. I hate it when that happens: just bought a book (a real one at that) only to have the summary be about the first chapter (not even all of it) and then the dumb chars set off to do something else (or, more specifically, the continuation of the summary.)

Erm, WTF?

Haha, don't want to go to work either. On the plus side, my boss isn't here today, so I can slack off a little and leave early :P

[moonkitsune.livejournal.com]

I find myself confused when dealing with books like those. (Books. I don't have too many ebooks yet. Only about 10 on my computer gifted to me by jolena.) What I find worse is when the summary has nothing to deal with the book and misdirects you. The beginning should start to set up the story and the central conflict that will arise. It's basic formula. Start out with what you need to say to show the main problem (or problems), go to solve said problem, get your high point in that sets a turning point, then it slows down to it's conclusion. Honestly! There is no point to start off with a problem, solve it, and then go off doing something else. You might as well have cut the first part off and stated with the second idea you had. That or expanded to make two stories.

Anyway, from all the places I've lived, PA is nice. True, some of the people could be nicer, but the scenery is right up my alley. I've always been one for greenery and normal (somewhat) seasons. That and no treat of tornadoes and hurricanes. That's aways a bonus!


Hope your next ebook isn't a disappointment.

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

Do I want to know which ebooks you've been reading? ^_^;;

I have read a couple like that lately. You get about thirty or forty pages in, and then wonder what the hell they're going to do for the next seventy pages. I can only read the sex for so long before my brain starts to go numb.

Poor ebooks. They try. I've taken to reading them for stress relief, cause there's no thought required on my part and my expectations of them are always so low that I'm usually satisfied. XD

*hugs* have a safe trip home! *snugs*