And I realize that I'm looking on the small level rather than the large structural level you're discussing, but I suspect sensory relation to reading is fractal: what you like on a sentence-by-sentence basis is true on a chapter-by-chapter or book-by-book level.
I can enjoy some books that don't have a solid plot structure if the author handwaves fast enough and sweeps me along. But there's no question the books I like best have a clear progression that builds and reflects and back-references and seem to have been built all of a piece rather than a linear plod.
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Date: 2014-10-09 03:45 pm (UTC)I can enjoy some books that don't have a solid plot structure if the author handwaves fast enough and sweeps me along. But there's no question the books I like best have a clear progression that builds and reflects and back-references and seem to have been built all of a piece rather than a linear plod.