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fandomsecrets2011-04-26 07:50 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-04-26 07:50 pm
[ SECRET POST #1575 ]
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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TRIGGER WARNING FOR INCEST, RAPE
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Seriously, I had to comment to you again because I saw what you said below about not having the attention span to read these things as adults.
I attempted LOTR first as a kid. I quite liked The Hobbit, and I was eager to read The Fellowship of the Ring. And I hated it. I will freely admit that I couldn't get much past the beginning. I read Great Expectations and David Copperfield and Moby Dick and so on at the same age, so it was not a problem with my attention span (at least for reading). The problem is the writing.
And I TRIED. I tried so hard to get through even the first third of the book. I couldn't, and was bitterly disappointed with it.
I don't care if it "gets better later." You shouldn't have to suffer through the beginning of a book to get to the part that's worth reading, and any book that is KNOWN for insufferably boring parts (particularly if one of those parts is the opening pages) may be "great" in the sense that it was highly influential (as LOTR was), but it sure as fuck isn't good writing.
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FFXIIILOTR gets good only twenty hours in. You know that's not really a point in it's favour, right? Put your hand on a stove for twenty hours and you'll have started feeling the pain but you probably will have done serious damage to yourself." - Zero PunctuationThought this might help your point 8D.