Basically the title. I could check all the books manually but I am lazy so thanks for any help I can get.

I was just checking out a forum on a book I'm reading and noticed quite a few complaints about the book being predictable, and it got me thinking - is that always a bad thing?

Of course, if it's a heavily plot-driven story, with nothing else to drive interest, you do not want to be able to guess what happens next. But I find that quite a lot of times, being able to predict what happens next feels very satisfying to me as a reader - it means that the author managed to structure their story well, and gave me enough clues to pick up, without making it too obvious.

In fact, I'd rather read a story that is predictable but still in some way impactful, than have a plot twist that is only there for shock value and doesn't actually add much (I have an example of this that I'm happy to share in the comments, don't want to just post the title here to avoid any type of spoiler for the book - let's just say I'm still annoyed by the plot twist, even though I think the book was great!)

What do you guys think? If a book doesn't have a plot twist that catches you off guard, does it impact how you feel about the book overall?

Does anyone has some recommendations for classic (or not so classic) Arab poetry? I'm reading an anthology right now, but it's very centered around Iberian-Arab poetry, and I would like to expand my knowdledge, since Spanish was heavily influenced in origin by Arab poetry, among others. I've searched for quests and lists on Pagebound but I didn't find anything... Thanks!

I recently discovered that I love to read alongside others, meaning that I read the forum posts via percentages as I pass them. I like doing it this way because I find it interesting to see how other people perceived the same situations, and I’m curious about how others like to use the forums?

I’m sure this has been discussed before but I couldn’t find anything when I tried searching 😅

I really wish people would take the time to look through the forum and see if there’s an existing post they can comment on for what they want to share rather than making an 8th post saying the same thing. Particularly if you’re at a plot twist or important part of the plot and it’s a relatively popular book, it’s pretty likely that there will be an existing post already. Maybe it’s just me, but the forums just get so clogged with these short reactions to the same part of the book and it gets tiresome to scroll through. The one for a book I’m reading now has over 10 posts at a particular plot twist that are mostly a variation of “didn’t see that coming,” “no way,” “I knew ___” and it truly could all be consolidated into one post with comments and then there would be less to scroll through later.

I don’t know if there’s a way to moderate this or remove the repeat posts — it doesn’t really seem like a content violation but a lot of the posts don’t really spark discussion or lend to forum engagement (as evidenced by people continued to make repeat posts saying the same thing) and it really clogs the forum, especially when it’s a more popular book.

I just accidentally clicked on a spoiler and I hit that scroll button like my life depended on it. 😂😭😱