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No Chapters

AudiePhlute

AudiePhlute

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Hey yall,

Right now im read, "I, Lucifer" and this book is around 250 pages, alright. There are no chapters. Ever about 3-5 pages there is a Big Diamond seperating the text and the story jumps to a new idea, or back an old one.

At first this didnt bother me but as i read on i find it rather annoying. Usually when i read a book, one of my friends are reading the same one, or have read the same one. And we discuss the book by chapters. Having shapes in stead of chapters makes this rather difficult, You cant just say "Yea im just finished Chap. 12 today, and its too inconveniant to say i made it to shape 362"

I also find it much more difficult to study over a book written like this. Because i remember what happens in a book by chapters, and i cant study chapters because they dont exsist.

I know i could just write down page# - page# instead but i find it ver difficult to remember things based on page#'s.

Whats your take on all this? Does any one else care if you read a book with no chapters?

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Audie
 
Well, I suppose I wouldn't mind, but then I've never discussed a book by chapters before. Is I, Lucifer any good?

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Terry Pratchett doesn't use chapters in his Discworld books which are usually around 400 pages in pocket format. The exceptions are the youth books that take place on the Disc (at least "The Amazing Maurice..." is) and possibly the very first two books in the Discworld series.

Pratchett says that real life doesn't have chapters either.

When books have chapters they're usually written in a dramaturgical formula so that we want to continue to the next chapter. The absence of chapters can create a more "realistic" style.

I'm quite fond of chapters however. Not because of study or comparative reasons but because it makes it easier to make a pause in reading straight after a chapter and later continue with the next chapter.
 
I, personally, find it extremely irritating. I really like to stop reading when a new chapter has begun, just so I don't forget where I am on a page (I'm extremely absent-minded). It just helps me and makes things less confusing.
 
I prefer to have chapters, as I can tell myself that I will definitely go to bed at the end of the next chapter! :) I was quite surprised when I read my first Pratchett to find that he doesn't write in chapters, but I can put up with it from him (no choice if I want to read his books! :D )
 
I don't really care, as I tend to remember books by "Idea Jumps" anyway. Most of Salvatore's books have 4 or 5 different characters that don't meet until nearly the end, and each "Idea" takes a chapte, so I suppose I'd see those diamonds as chapters, if you get what I'm saying.
 
I like chapters and I prefer mostly short chapters, i mean if you have a book with 317 pages and only 2 chapters, than you can forget it anyway!!
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I can't stand real short chapters. I read this book called "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech. 200 or so pages, 42 chapters. I hated it.
 
Since I tend to read in bed I like having chapter.. Saying "just one more chapter then I'll sleep" doesn't really work when there are no chapters.
 
I don't care either way, since I tend not to stop at the end of the chapter anyway. For some reason, I usually stop about halfway into a chapter. I find it easier to get back into it when I pick it up again that way.
 
I relate to that Ashlea. With a lot of the fantasy fiction I read, a chapter will signify a jump to a different story within the story (a la George R R Martin) so, with his, I like to finish mid-chapter because I know what I'll be coming back to and I can pick up the threads of the story more easily.
 
Yah, I tend to just read till I'm tired so I'm usually part way through the Chapter. If you wait like a week before you pick uop the novel again, an dyou just finished a chapter, most likely you'll have to read some of it again at the least. Its real easy to lose track of the ideas in a book after extended periods
 
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