[ SECRET POST #6596 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6596 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The overall impression I've been getting in the recent past is that F!S is populated by unsophisticated readers, with extremely narrow comfort zones. There is little appetite for exploration or challenge, whether intellectual or emotional.

[(Anonymous)]

Between this and the ardent defense of wish-fulfillment narratives when that topic came up, unfortunately, I have to agree with you.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, you get to a stage where for the most part you know what you like and what doesn't work for you. Doesn't meant FS readers won't give other things a chance, but most discussions here are what they know works and what they like. I don't think that really says anything about sophistication levels or "appetite for exploration or challenge."

[(Anonymous)]

It is very much the case that readers on FS declare styles to be outright bad and won't give them a chance.

nayrt

[(Anonymous)]

It’s a little funny to have this comment under a secret that is actually about someone who tried (and stuck with) something they knew had a style of writing they usually don’t like.

And makes a point of explicitly stating that this style isn’t “outright bad” but simply a personal preference.

[(Anonymous)]

I assure you that not being able to tolerate a POV in books is a very recent phenomenon and linked to the decline in reading outside of school, and even in school now because you can get Chat GPT to write the essay on your reading assignment without reading it yourself.

If someone in my high school classes had said they refuse to read any books in first/third person, they'd have gotten looked at like they had two heads.

[(Anonymous)]

That is not true at all. I can recall listening to my aunts and uncles and grandparents discussing what POVs they preferred or hated and that was back in the 80s. People have always had preferences.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more that however many of us have no interest in condemning books based on narrative POV tend to not comment on this. Precisely because it seems like a ridiculous thing to get hung up about.

[(Anonymous)]

First person POV has always been a make it or break it in fiction for a lot of people. It's neither new nor rare.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it hasn't "always" because human history didn't begin when you were born.