tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post116239821378533411..comments2023-10-05T06:28:29.938-07:00Comments on Bookseller Chick: Guest Blogger: Jennifer Estep and Things that go bump in the nightBookseller Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740546395821645741noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1163099096053669562006-11-09T11:04:00.000-08:002006-11-09T11:04:00.000-08:00I've also really loved books with a lot of blood a...I've also really loved books with a lot of blood and gore, thrillers, dectective fiction, some science fiction, but like you, Jennifer, I cannot read horror. And for the same reason, as well as the fact that I have a vivid imagination and like to sleep at night :). Sorry, David, your theory is shot to hell ;).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1162430745431789992006-11-01T17:25:00.000-08:002006-11-01T17:25:00.000-08:00I never thought of the gender thing. Maybe it does...I never thought of the gender thing. Maybe it does play a part in it.<BR/><BR/>I don't mind blood and gore at all. Some of my favorite books are heavy on both, like the "Parker" series by Richard Stark or the "Jack Reacher" series by Lee Child. Lots of people die in those. I just don't like ghosts and aliens and demons that much.<BR/><BR/>I also don't mind an unhappy ending, if it's appropriate for the book. <BR/><BR/>What I hate are cliffhangers, where you have to wait six months or a year or even longer to get the next book in the series to see how things turned out. <BR/><BR/>Robert Jordan kills me because sometimes two or three years go by before he releases another book in his "Wheel of Time" series. Although, the wait isn't as hard as it used to be. Not much has really happened in the last few books, which are long on description and short on action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002022.post-1162416679451465812006-11-01T13:31:00.000-08:002006-11-01T13:31:00.000-08:00I wonder if there's a gender thing involved as wel...I wonder if there's a gender thing involved as well? Most of the people I've met, whether writers or readers, the girls like paranormal romance, and the boys want blood and gore.<BR/>Grils mostly call a happy ending "good", and will dislike a good book because the ending was unhappy.<BR/>Most men I've met class an unhappy ending as "a good story". <BR/>You know - where the boy and girl don't get together after all?<BR/><BR/>Well, i was just wondering...David de Beerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03191810429175260146noreply@blogger.com