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What makes people put down a book (goodreads)
Aminar:
Oh come on, that's not historically inaccurate. DRAMATIC TELEGRAPH(Did those exist then?) There are still ways to use the event, just ones that take more time.
Snowleopard:
Dramatic messenger or letter - no telegraph at that time, I believe - I could be wrong
on that however.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Snowleopard on July 28, 2013, 10:02:37 PM ---Dramatic messenger or letter - no telegraph at that time, I believe - I could be wrong
on that however.
--- End quote ---
And by the time any plausible one of those has rounded the world, you're a long way from the impact of a direct scene.
I think telegraph is just post-Napoleonic, remembering the telegraph tower scene for The Count of Monte Cristo.
Snowleopard:
According to what I just Googled - Morse created the telegraph in 1832.
So 1815 is out.
Mandy_The_Dandy:
I'm sure this may be a bit unfair to the author, but when someone tries to force me to read a book that's almost a guarantee that I will never read it. Apparently the lines "hey you might like this book" can be swapped with a rabid "READ THIS THING OR WE'LL NEVER BE FRIENDS AGAIN" without incident. If I do read the book, they get really surprised when I voice a poor opinion of it and don't think the author is God's gift of prose.
The opposite effect is when a friend shows me a book, tells me the gist of what it's about, gives me the option of borrowing their copy, and leaving it at that. I'll blaze through that mother and probably love it to bits.
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