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I have finally begun reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series and wrapped up book one. Is the chapter style the author uses in this series very common? I have never read a book that does quite the same thing. I am definitely not the most voracious of readers and tend to take my time with everything I read, usually just a chapter on average a night, so maybe I have just not hit any other books setup the same way.
In general I enjoyed the chapters in this way with two small gripes. The first was that I simply did not like some of the characters. When I would hit a chapter with the point of view being from one of these people I didn't care to read more about it was somewhat annoying. At times it made me want to no longer continue, or at least procrastinate continuing my read.
The second was that often times the characters I truly wanted to know what was going on with seemed to take forever to get back to. This may have just seemed that way because I was forced to read more chapters about 'Sansa' when I really wanted to know about 'Jon', but.. anyway.
What do you all think of this chapter style? Would it work well with other genres? I am thinking of taking some writing out of the archives that I did back in high school and college and redoing it over time and wondered how well chaptering like this would do with the general reader.
In general I enjoyed the chapters in this way with two small gripes. The first was that I simply did not like some of the characters. When I would hit a chapter with the point of view being from one of these people I didn't care to read more about it was somewhat annoying. At times it made me want to no longer continue, or at least procrastinate continuing my read.
The second was that often times the characters I truly wanted to know what was going on with seemed to take forever to get back to. This may have just seemed that way because I was forced to read more chapters about 'Sansa' when I really wanted to know about 'Jon', but.. anyway.
What do you all think of this chapter style? Would it work well with other genres? I am thinking of taking some writing out of the archives that I did back in high school and college and redoing it over time and wondered how well chaptering like this would do with the general reader.