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Driven

Mar 21, 2009 20:41

I think I was inspired by the awesome vanity plate pic... I was thinking about the structure of the QT books and whether they were plot-driven or character-driven. They are certainly of a genre that is very typically plot-driven but I don't think it is only plot that moves the books along. What do y'all think? And do you prefer books that are plot- ( Read more... )

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ask and ye shall receive checkers65477 March 21 2009, 21:39:00 UTC

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/165599.html

And this one, maybe sort of:
http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/118872.html

Re: ask and ye shall receive sgwordy March 23 2009, 20:53:46 UTC

Thanks for these posts! Great discussions!

thelasteddis March 21 2009, 23:17:32 UTC

Character-driven. Definately. I am one of the people who believes that there are very few 'original' stories out there (I know this sounds very negative, so keep reading before you start throwing tomatoes at me ( ... )

annikah March 21 2009, 23:53:24 UTC

I agree. The other day a group of friends and I were talking about fairy tales. One commented about Beauty & the Beast being perverted because the girl fell in love with her captor (and what message does that teach children?). It made me think of Attolia and Gen, and how messed up that could be if that's ALL you knew about them.

At the same time, there is *some* element of plot driving stories. The gods interfere. If Attolia caught Gen, if Nahuseresh hadn't intervened at just the right time, the story would have been completely different. I guess certain bits of the plot set the ball rolling, and the rest is left to the characters.

Eddis puts it perfectly: "If I am a pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my decisions for me."

coyul March 22 2009, 00:25:51 UTC

On Beauty and the Beast, Stockholm Syndrome isn't perverted per se, so I don't know why they'd say that. XD;

To the question of whether the story is plot or character driven, I agree with this. It's definitely both. At some points, character, at others, plot. It's a nice mix and I think that's what makes the books so spectacular.

thelasteddis March 22 2009, 05:34:38 UTC

Whoops! on reread, my post does look a little like I ONLY read for characters, which couldn't be less true. The plot is uberly important, otherwise it would just be a bunch of people sitting in a room. Old Man and the Sea, anyone?
(gods, I hated that book)

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tiegirl March 22 2009, 02:55:24 UTC

wow! impressive! and welcome...you fit right in!

inkasrain March 22 2009, 02:12:38 UTC

Largely character-driven, certainly, but I think the books are also deceptively plot-driven-- the caveat being that we really don't *know* exactly what is going on most of the time (although we think we do) and can't actually see how plot-driven the story really is. I just re-read QoA and KoA and was actually shocked how much was going on that I couldn't see the first time around.

kulai on cellphone anonymous March 22 2009, 03:40:18 UTC

I say its primarily character driven and drives the plot through it. Character is what makes me like the story or not. I always find it annoying when I read a sequal and the main characters of the first book is no longer the main focus but is there at the side, while there's another new character.
No worries for this book.