Book Blogger Hop #12
The Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Jennifer at Crazy for Books and is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! I love taking part in the hop as I get to know more about other bloggers out there and to find a few new ones!
This week's question is -
What do you consider the most important in a story: the plot or the characters?
The best books have a combination of both - where the characters drive the plot and the plot informs the characters. Generally though if the plot is good enough I can forgive lack of characterisation lost in the details of the story and caught up in the world and action. However, if the plot doesn't make sense I find it hard to get lost in the characters and I tend to get bored quicker. But having both helps so much! :)
Which do you prefer?
I think both are very important! Without one or the other, books tend to be duds for me.
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I agree. I think both are important too. :) I guess all Mels think alike. :D
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This might be the best Book Blogger Hop question I've seen to date.
ReplyDeleteSo what's the answer? Plot! Hop over to my blog and let me tell you how a good plot rescued bad characters from bad book oblivion.
Howard Sherman
http://www.howardsherman.net
I just asked my Mother in Law and she says a bit of both but leans towards plot.
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