I try my hardest to do this with movies I’m really interested in. But I find myself watching movie trailers more often than not.

That’s fair.

I expect them to have been properly proofread (typesetting, spelling), I'm genuinely unsure why you'd expect any guarantee of them being any good? Especially genre fiction, especially fantasy, which (sure, with exceptions) hardly has a reputation for literary quality. Publishers want it to sell, which might overlap with a certain standard but isn't the aim, they'll continue to publish books that are actively bad if readers prefer it, and readers of fantasy often do, such as in wanting wish-fulfilment. If queer fantasy emphasises romance that sounds like literary quality isn't even the point.

Most of these replies are making me feel like it might not be. But I will not change my ways!

This may be a case of a high demand genre that not many people are writing in so the threshold for publication has been lowered in order for the publishers to offer something, anything.

Maybe? I find think so?

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i think in the original novel he was a villain, but the movie portrayed him as more of an anti-hero. both book and film sequel treated him as an anti-hero.

I find myself reading farther into a story because I want to see where the story is going. I DID however just DNF The Wise Man’s Fear after really enjoying The Name of the Wind.

Oh, is some distant land still printing summaries on the back? Can I perhaps move there?

And nah, I'm fairly picky about what I'm interested in. I'll take recs and I've been trying to branch out, but it's very hit or miss and you can imagine how helpful it is to me to know Random Celebrity #3173's secretary glanced at the first draft and thought it was pretty alright.

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I think it depends. Some books I will read a synopsis if I have trouble with understanding it, but other books, like more fiction stuff like DUNE or Ender's game type of vibes I like the story to, like you said; unfold in front of me.

I gotta know at leas the basics before I read to know if I’d even be interested in finishing

Can you tell a little about it? I’d be so interested in this, I love biographies and memoirs.

Are you a serial killer?

I thought this was the normal way.

I think I would end up with far more DNF than not.

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Extremely powerful and well written. But this book was too much for me. stopped me reading for a year.

I just finished it last night. What was the twist? I assumed that they were organ donors in the first chapter and they said they were clones towards when they went looking Ruth's possible. I thought the best part of the ending was if clones had souls. The symbolism of things lost at the end was very good.

Great! I thought No Country for Old Men was my favorite McCarthy until I read Suttree. Always happy to find more McCarthy to explore.

Oh no! Good job putting it down if it's not your thing.

Cathy has Jory with Julian, another ballet dancer who I believe she marries for a brief period, he's horrible and abusive as are most men in VC Andrews books. Her other son is Bart Jr.

She also collapses and begins bleeding heavily early in Petals on the Wind and needs a d&c, but it's kind of open ended on whether she was suffering a miscarriage from sleeping with Chris in the attic, or if malnutrition and poisoning just messed up her menstrual cycle.

It reminded me of Suttree and No Country for Old Men, but it's a original and uniquely McCarthy book overall. I was impressed by the scope and the creative approach to story telling.