an adventure in reading: BOOKING THROUGH THURSDAY: Pet Peeves

Thursday, April 19, 2012

BOOKING THROUGH THURSDAY: Pet Peeves

What are your literary “pet peeves”?

Dreams! I hate reading about a character's dream in a book. Just use another symbol or metaphor, but to hide it in a dream is going to confuse me. I can't think of any times that a dream helped me or enhanced a story for me.

Also, I don't like hearing real people tell me about their dreams either. Too much information about your psych. Am I the only one who doesn't like to read about dreams? Do you have a different pet peeve?

Bonnie's pet peeve today is also a good one.

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rhapsodyinbooks 72p · 675 weeks ago

OMG, I ***hate*** reading about dreams! And hearing about them too, but that doesn't seem to occur as often as reading about them! I totally skip parts in books that have dreams!!!

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raidergirl3 91p · 675 weeks ago

Glad I'm not the only one! I should be skipping them in books because they don't make any sense to me.

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Christina · 675 weeks ago

My pet peeve is related: I hate when you get through a whole book only to find out that it was all a dream. It may be an entertaining gimmick for one episode of a TV series, but not for a novel!

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raidergirl3 91p · 675 weeks ago

Oh, I've never read a book like that! How awful! I felt the same way after movies that were dreams though, so annoying. Even TV isn't fun, but one episode is okay, but only if I know the dream is coming first, not if it's a big reveal after the dream.

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Thoughts of Joy · 675 weeks ago

I ditto what rhapsodyinbooks (above) said, except for 1 word. She said "skip" and I skim. To me they are wasted and irrelevant words!

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raidergirl3 91p · 675 weeks ago

'wasted and irrelevant' - well described Joy!

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bybee · 675 weeks ago

The dream thing is irksome.

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jennysbooks 89p · 675 weeks ago

I don't like reading about dreams but I sort of like hearing about other people's. They get so impressed with my dream interpreting skills, even though my dream-interpreting skills only work because dreams usually employ very obvious symbolism. :p But in dreams they're dead boring -- just a cheaty way of telling us what the characters are feeling.