I am not saying this book is bad or going to reduce its rating for any reason. But I felt the 'too muchness' of the background details quite distracting. It is purely personal, and it is highly possible that some readers prefer it that way and dislike directly told stories.Goodness C N wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 01:08 Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes authors do bad by giving overt descriptions. I find this quite distracting to say the least. Regardless, this book was an amazing read.
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Yes, it is a help to understand when scenarios repeat as per the multiverse theory. But I still think that it could have made into short descriptions. Reading the descriptions once is tiring enough. Imagine when you read the same for several times
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Well that is a real point there @Susan. I mean, what's the point in understanding a story if you find it unnecessarily long? But that didnt happen with Wordlines, or did it? Sure the descriptions made the book more lengthy than it should have been,but I don't think it was unnecessarily lwnghty. I think the descriptions were just enough to give the book enough real-feel to make...feel real.Sushan wrote: ↑20 Jul 2021, 05:01The 'real feel' is a good thing to a story. But irrelevant background details can make the story unnecessarily lengthy, and will ultimately exhaust the reader. What is the use of getting the real feel if you happen to find that you are struggling to reach the end of the book?Suzer6440 xyz wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 22:57 I don’t think it was overwhelming at all. For a book like this, a lot of description is needed in order to get a real feel as to what is happening in the story. It doesn’t matter if it’s not significant to the story, what matters to me is understanding what I’m reading and every single description helps make the story real
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It's been almost a year since I last read the book— I can't remember any part that didn't move the story forward. I guess it's the details for the worldbuilding? But I think those are heart of the book, since thr author was trying to point out the fact that they came from different AUs and those details are what makes the difference.Reema Aydieh wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 06:43 I did notice that too, I feel like the author could have focused more on the story and how the plot progressed than describing things that didn't move the story forward. Maybe that would've worked if things were equally described to draw readers into the world.
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Right?! Those descriptions are what makes the difference; I loved how the author was able to show the similarities but I got more excited about the little things that made each Gary unique. Descriptions here are necessary, though I wouldn't say that it's needed for every piece of fiction.
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I'm not sure if that was the goal, 'cause for some stories it would actually do more harm than good. I get where OP was coming from since usually it makes the book tiring to read and I hate it when that happens. However, in this story, those descriptions were necessary since those tiny differences in details is the heart of the book.
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True; in general, I guess it's a matter of preference. But in this case, I can't imagine the story being this good without those tiny details. The author had to provide them because just as the theory goes, there could only be a handful of differences in decisions and actions but it would immensely affect how their lives go. If those were removed for the sake of being concise, then we'd be reading a different kind of story.Eriny Youssef wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 10:34 I feel the same way as you do. As a reader, I don't appreciate too many details about background, or too mich details in general, for the matter. However, I think it differs from one reader to the other. Some top sellers are stacked with details and people love it.
I find it distracting and think the less the better. Concise and to the point is my preference.
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I realized my mistake after I posted that. I figured that to make the story enjoyable the author had to describe each line and how it was different from the other one. So yeah, I agree with you.lavkathleen wrote: ↑26 Jul 2021, 20:54It's been almost a year since I last read the book— I can't remember any part that didn't move the story forward. I guess it's the details for the worldbuilding? But I think those are heart of the book, since thr author was trying to point out the fact that they came from different AUs and those details are what makes the difference.Reema Aydieh wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 06:43 I did notice that too, I feel like the author could have focused more on the story and how the plot progressed than describing things that didn't move the story forward. Maybe that would've worked if things were equally described to draw readers into the world.
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I agree. The support that the minute background details gave to show the similarities between numerous universes is immense. But that does not out weight the extra effort that a reader has to go through to finish reading this book going through extensive and repetitive background details.Victor Kilyungi wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 01:23 I did notice them too but they weren't overkill for me. I think they served to show that only minor changes in the worldlines had occured. After all, isn't the many worlds theory suggesting that there are minor changes between worldlines all summing up to form an infinite number of possibilities for each scenario, each place, each person and each action?
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As I read over portions of the book. I did find the descriptions a bit much and maybe the descriptions could have been better integrated into the story. There were some descriptions that did their job in terms of capturing the imagination. For example the drive to their accommodation on the ski trip. However, some persons may have found this to be a bit much.Reema Aydieh wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 06:43 I did notice that too, I feel like the author could have focused more on the story and how the plot progressed than describing things that didn't move the story forward. Maybe that would've worked if things were equally described to draw readers into the world.
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