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Mystery Novels As a Whole are Written Incorrectly, amirite?
by Anonymous7 months ago
Video games may be better venue for this, I think.
by Anonymous7 months ago
I agree that the whole mystery genre is boring asf, but to be fair, actual investigators chase down red herrings and dead ends too. Personally I was never a fan of choose your own adventure either, so I don't really have a dog in this fight.
by Plenty_Year7 months ago
Yes they do, it's a natural there is no perfect path through solving a mystery. What I don't like is being presented with a challenge (solve the mystery) but then not being given any control over the path & pace of the story to do so. If there are 10 secondary characters/suspects I want to prioritize my own discussions with them and not follow the path laid out by the author simply because the author needs to pad their read time.
by Anonymous7 months ago
I just don't have the discipline for choosing my own path in a book/I end up checking to see what would have happened if I'd made another decision and ruining it.
by Plenty_Year7 months ago
Sure 😂. Explain this to me though: you think mystery novels as commonly written are "wrong and boring", and yet you have read hundreds of them?
by Anonymous7 months ago
I genuinely believe there must be some value In them as a genre and I am a voracious reader so eventually I end up with another one in my hands. I know it's kind of masochistic.
by Anonymous7 months ago
I think a Rashomon type device would work just as well, if not better.
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