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⌈ Secret Post #7003 ⌋

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Re: What authors do you not like?

[(Anonymous)]

On the "makes sense" side, I'd say Deborah Harkness (A Discovery of Witches, etc.). I was rec'd A Discovery by a friend and I felt obligated to finish it so I turned it into an exercise in hate-reading. It's not that the book is slow--I love long, slow novels. It's not even that the central romance is unhealthy--I love reading about dysfunctional, even abusive relationships if it's done well. I just really hated it on a sentence level: the whole book felt amateurish and devoid of passion until the last, idk, tenth? Where her aunts show up. The language was far too simple for what should have been the POV of a highly educated and extremely emotional woman and honestly, I didn't believe a single word. I dipped my toe into the sequel and the loathing came back to me, roaring, before I even finished the first page. No more.

On the "you must be joking" side, I don't care for what I've read of Samuel Delany. While I can appreciate his stuff on a sentence level I kind of loathe reading him on a paragraph level and above, at least for the couple of books I've attempted. It feels like he's trying very hard to be clever in a highbrow, intellectual way, and I do not want to go on a journey with someone who I feel is trying to impress me. Unlike the above, I welcome having my mind changed on this, because he is Very Important and I am famously stubborn about things that don't matter.