What makes a book a good book?

 

At first I struggled with figuring out where to start with this research. I figured this would be a good place to start with my research: what exactly makes a book a good book?  

Of course I took my question straight to the public and posted it on Facebook. I asked my “friends” to share their opinion’s on what they believe is the definition of a good/entertaining/popular book. I am unsure as to what exactly what kind of answers I was expecting to receive, but to my surprise I found that all but one of the answers were incredibly similar in the respect that generally, a good book is one that keeps your attention until the very end. There were three comments in particular that I found to be the best definitions:

• “When you can’t put it down until the last page!”
• “One that captures your interest so much that you can’t go to sleep until it is finished.”
• “A book that keeps you thinking is always best.”

All three of these responses are similar to what my definition of a “good book” is. But as expected, I did receive a response from a critique that said, “One that was never opened... Those are my favorite!”, although I suppose that is to be expected when conducting surveys –especially about reading- on social media!

Toodles!

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