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		By: Alex J. Cavanaugh		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Along with the mundane - go easy on the descriptions. I don&#039;t need paragraphs (or pages) of the stuff. I have an imagination and can use it.
And give me a satisfying ending. Doesn&#039;t have to be a happy ending, but it better satisfy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Along with the mundane &#8211; go easy on the descriptions. I don&#8217;t need paragraphs (or pages) of the stuff. I have an imagination and can use it.<br />
And give me a satisfying ending. Doesn&#8217;t have to be a happy ending, but it better satisfy.</p>
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		By: Graeme Ing		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/what-annoys-me-as-a-reader/#comment-378&quot;&gt;Gray Sharpling&lt;/a&gt;.

Agreed. I&#039;ve suffered that too, but thankfully rarely. Sometimes the book is bad enough that I am begging for the end. :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/commentary/what-annoys-me-as-a-reader/#comment-378">Gray Sharpling</a>.</p>
<p>Agreed. I&#8217;ve suffered that too, but thankfully rarely. Sometimes the book is bad enough that I am begging for the end. 🙂</p>
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		By: Gray Sharpling		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As an extension to points 3 and 4 (Don&#039;t Slack Off in the Middle&quot; and &quot;Give Me a Neat Ending&quot;), I would add &quot;Don&#039;t Rush the Ending&quot;.  I&#039;ve seen this time and again, and even in some of my all-time absolute favourite books.  The ending sometimes feels rushed, like the author got bored and just got to a point where they felt they ought to end after X-thousand words?  So the ending comes quite suddenly.  Logically, but suddenly, when the reader wanted more....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an extension to points 3 and 4 (Don&#8217;t Slack Off in the Middle&#8221; and &#8220;Give Me a Neat Ending&#8221;), I would add &#8220;Don&#8217;t Rush the Ending&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve seen this time and again, and even in some of my all-time absolute favourite books.  The ending sometimes feels rushed, like the author got bored and just got to a point where they felt they ought to end after X-thousand words?  So the ending comes quite suddenly.  Logically, but suddenly, when the reader wanted more&#8230;.</p>
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		By: Graeme		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://graemeing.com/commentary/what-annoys-me-as-a-reader/#comment-376&quot;&gt;Angela Brown&lt;/a&gt;.

Good one. Yes POV-shifts are very distracting.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://graemeing.com/commentary/what-annoys-me-as-a-reader/#comment-376">Angela Brown</a>.</p>
<p>Good one. Yes POV-shifts are very distracting.</p>
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		By: Angela Brown		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You point out some very interesting things. One of my things is wonky head-hopping. If I read a page and find that I&#039;ve somehow traveled to three different characters POV, I feel lost. I don&#039;t mind POV changing, just anchor me instead of jumping all over the place. Easy way for me to just lose interest.]]></description>
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