[ SECRET POST #3241 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3241 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Advanced reader"? Seriously? I read those books when I was THIRTEEN. They're popular fiction, not Derrida. People are calling you elitist because your snobbery is totally misplaced.

[(Anonymous)]

OH THANK GOD I was seriously about to say the same. Crichton uses big science words--gasp, who could ever learn those without being an advanced reader?!-- but is a terrible writer in many ways.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I was thinking. I read those books as a teen, too. They're not everybody's cup of tea, obviously, but it's easy enough for people to just skim over the pseud-science and focus on the plot (kinda like I do with overly-complicated fantasy names).

[(Anonymous)]

Also the science in them is pretty awful, and having it rely so heavily on jargon makes it glaring in a way that the (equally unrealistic) science in the movies isn't.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I'm kind of worried that there are people out there who think this is challenging literature. It's not meant to be, and if it is... wow, someone's education was seriously lacking.

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Oh my god how is that snobbery? I'll be the person to admit that yeah, when I first tackled these books in my early teens I couldn't understand half of what was being said in them, which meant I didn't enjoy them nearly as much as I did when I picked them up five years of education and reading later. Jesus, I think they're [i]still[/i] kind of "advanced" as OP puts it. It's not something I would expect my friend who reads Laurell K. Hamilton-esque books to enjoy. If OP hangs around Tumblr and whatnot where the average user is still in high school? I can totally see people being assholes about this.