Ha, I don't read series in order either. I am a reading reprobate. :-) Seriously, I think reading for work or school is entirely different than reading for pleasure. I became such a critical reader over my years in RA, checking off plot, character, setting, pace, tone, in my head, that I found it difficult to relax and enjoy the darn book.
And Horror is a difficult genre, because the desired emotional response is not one many people seek out. I still love the warmth and thrill of reading romance, but the tension and shiver of horror is too unpleasant for me now. The last horror book I read was From A Buick 8, and it was GREAT, but yeah, I had to go put the book in the freezer a couple of times.
I remember Orson Scott Card saying that we love sturm and drang when we're young, but when we get older we like a nice hot cup of tea.
Cheers,
Roberta S. Johnson
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Des Plaines Public Library
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+1 on why I prefer print to digital. Also, I haven't figured out how to do the "hold the book loosely in your hand and see where the pages separate in order to find the good bits" trick on an e-book.
Lynn Schlatter
Shreve Memorial Library
Shreveport, Louisiana
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I always first read the first and last chapters of books I am reviewing, or reading to expand my genre familiarity; and often for books that I am reading for pleasure as well.
I get very anxious - especially if the plot is very suspenseful or scary, or I suspect that things will turn out "badly", or even if my preferred 'ship might not be fulfilled - and I can't pay attention to all the various appeal factors if I'm preoccupied with worrying about how it turns out.
And I usually read the rest in a non-linear fashion - skipping over the grisly or smutty bits, turning back to re-read earlier scenes now seen in a new light, jumping around to see which characters get more
"screen time." I've never understood how people just pick up a
book, go to the first page, and read straight through to the end.
Don't you get twitchy at being so constrained?
Which, btw, is why I dislike e-books; it's a lot harder to "skip around" in an endless scroll than it is to riffle through a nice print codex.
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> Roberta, I have seen your name and your writings for years, and have enormous respect for you, but your suggestion of reading the first and last chapters really made me cringe. I have a good friend who reads the last chapter of a murder mystery first, and just don't understand how she can do that and then read the whole book from the beginning. But I would never forbid anyone from doing that, including students--I just don't want to know about it!!!
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>> Possibly Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card? No relation to the vampire movie, a story about a family that has to relocate and finds their new town unsettling to say the least. London Falling by Paul Cornell is a modern day supernatural story of witches in London, but it is also a police procedural.
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>> Into the Diving Deep by Mira Grant if fairy tame, but I also think tame is relative. Are you looking for more psychological than say, body horror?
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