This is probably asked here a lot so i apologise. Almost every day i think about siting down, and having a nice read, but i just dont know how to find the books i like.
This is probably asked here a lot so i apologise. Almost every day i think about siting down, and having a nice read, but i just dont know how to find the books i like.
I do exactly this, except I don’t start at the first page but like 10-30 pages in. So that the writer has started to write normally.
Yeah, I take several random samples of the prose from throughout the book, just to get a good sense of the overall style. Though I do always begin with the first paragraph, and on at least one case, that was enough to immediately close and buy the book.
That being the over-the-top, sorta Victorian prose of Jacqueline Carey:
She then keeps going just like that for three large books, probably totaling something like 2k pages. I loved every page of it.
Wow, good call. That paragraph was uniquely unpleasant.
Not a very accurate method, but any discerning reader should get into Nabokov right away from:
I had to hop off kushiel’s dart, but you are spot on that the writing style is evocative.
Yeah, if anything about it bothered you, that was probably smart. The trilogy is, among other things, a very slow yet steady escalation of horror.
She did write two other trilogies in the same setting following different characters that you may prefer more. Different narrators does change the prose, but she still manages that same fluidity, which is what I always loved so much about it.