Comments on: Down to a Sunless Sea – Book Review http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/09/down-to-a-sunless-sea-book-review/ Memoirs of a Ravenous Reader Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Literary Feline http://www.devourerofbooks.com/2008/09/down-to-a-sunless-sea-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 Literary Feline Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:02:17 +0000 http://www.devourerofbooks.com/?p=415#comment-1874 I've discovered that I prefer short stories like this because so often I am disappointed by ones that are more plot driven. They always seem so incomplete to me--which is funny because you'd think I would find character driven stories that seem more like character studies to be that way. For some reason though, I don't. I think part of my problem is that I expect short stories to be too much like regular length novels, and so I often end up feeling unsatisfied at the end. As a result, my appreciation for a short story is different than it is for a full length novel. I don't know if that makes sense at all. I'm still trying to figure it out myself. :-) Anyhow, that has nothing to do with you really, and I don't know why I'm telling you all this. :-) I appreciate your thoughts on this collection and agree with you--it's definitely character focused. I’ve discovered that I prefer short stories like this because so often I am disappointed by ones that are more plot driven. They always seem so incomplete to me–which is funny because you’d think I would find character driven stories that seem more like character studies to be that way. For some reason though, I don’t. I think part of my problem is that I expect short stories to be too much like regular length novels, and so I often end up feeling unsatisfied at the end. As a result, my appreciation for a short story is different than it is for a full length novel. I don’t know if that makes sense at all. I’m still trying to figure it out myself. :-)

Anyhow, that has nothing to do with you really, and I don’t know why I’m telling you all this. :-)

I appreciate your thoughts on this collection and agree with you–it’s definitely character focused.

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