[ SECRET POST #2923 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2923 ⌋

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Comments

[ketita]

It's funny, 'cause I feel like the opposite happened to me - I appreciate long books that I can settle down and enjoy way more than I used to, and I've grown beyond picky about plotting.

[lb_lee]

I have grown downright SNARKY about plotting. I blame it on a childhood of Mary Brown and Piers Anthony; those folks could not plot their way out of a paper bag, I swear to god.

That said, I DO enjoy long books, when they aren't freakin' obstacle course plots. Rot and Ruin went by pretty fast for me, and I've been chowing on tons of longer nonfiction!

[ketita]

Oh god Piers Anthony.

tbh I think that at heart I'm still a fiction fan, and probably will be for a while yet. But I just plowed through a Brandon Sanderson book and had a jolly good time. Obviously not all plots are good plots, and not all long books have good plots, but so many fics have no plot at all. Drives me nuts.

[lb_lee]

Yeah, Anthony is my one childhood shame. All the other favorite authors actually turned out to be pretty good--I still have all my old Bruce Coville and Roald Dahl!

I can't comment on the fic, since I basically only read short fluff and porn--when I read at all, these days, lately I've been wandering away from it. I'm everything wrong with the fic reader of today. *snrk*

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've grown to love long books. I want to have forgotten that other books exist when I'm done with a book, LOL.

[melitotpd]

I've grown beyond picky about plotting

THIS.
And not just about plot, but also about writing style, characterisation and the way controversial (sexual/social etc.) themes are treated. I've read some wonderful fanfiction in these last years - veritable books with a level of insight and passion I seldom find in published books - and that has ruined me forever, lol.
That said, I've always loved long books and still do. If anything, good fanfiction made me love short writings, like drabbles and flashfics.

[ketita]

haha, I guess I kind of meant the opposite from you. I'm glad you found great fics, but the more fic I read the more I appreciate sitting down to a long book that's got actual plot, actual development, and won't squander everything in 9837067 sex scenes.
Not to say there aren't lousy books - but even among the high wordcount fics, it's so rare that I find something that actually satisfies my plotting demands.