ou know how some characters in books talk like a history text book?

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in order to 'set the scene' or explain something in the past.

it's very crap and annoying.

i also hate a random local dialect word dropped in here and there so we, the reader, are reminded they are from darkset glasgow, in case we forget.

then in the last 2 pages a sudden insane coincidence that is supposed to make us weep but really makes me want to hurl said tome out the window into the lake.

Are you referring to a particular book? :)

Agree - I really hate when the dialogue or the narrator's "thoughts" are just a thinly disguised way for the author to show off how clever he/she is, usually without adding anything to the story.

Have been trying to read Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis and there's a lot of history book narrative in it so far. It is annoying me greatly! In fact I think I'm going to give up on it and read something I might actually enjoy.

it's my 'review for asda for 50 quids vouchers' one. it's been a struggle and i now have to review it without being too rude. but it was utter shite.

I find this very clunky and annoying. I remember being a bit jarred in the later part of Birdsong when Elizabeth was learning about relatively recent family history events in a conversation with her mother, and thinking it was a slightly clumsy way of presenting the back (or inbetween?) story. I don't know why that comes to mind right now, I read it years ago and have come across far worse examples far more recently. But rack my brains as I might, just can't remember their titles