I'm one of these types as well. I tend to enjoy books, both fiction and nonfiction, that wouldn't do very well as movies. (One of my favorite pleasure reads is Under The Tuscan Sun, whose movie was unrecognizable when you compare it to the book because there was so little actual plot in that memoir worthy of making into a film 😂 They had to invent a whole dramatic romance plot to sell it to people. I could read that book over and over, though, and enjoy every line.) There's no greater damp squid for me than a book with a fascinating plot but super dry, to-the-point prose. The plot is never enough to get me to stay with those kinds of books.
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I'm one of these types as well. I tend to enjoy books, both fiction and nonfiction, that wouldn't do very well as movies. (One of my favorite pleasure reads is Under The Tuscan Sun, whose movie was unrecognizable when you compare it to the book because there was so little actual plot in that memoir worthy of making into a film 😂 They had to invent a whole dramatic romance plot to sell it to people. I could read that book over and over, though, and enjoy every line.) There's no greater damp squid for me than a book with a fascinating plot but super dry, to-the-point prose. The plot is never enough to get me to stay with those kinds of books.