[ SECRET POST #2538 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2538 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i40.tinypic.com/29mu9lz.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry about how you have no taste, but that doesn't mean people should shun you for what you like. It's just the way you are. The way some people like boiled spinach or marmite, yet hate chocolate or toast.

[(Anonymous)]

This comment is excellence.

(I kinda like marmite, though....)

[(Anonymous)]

I like the Hunger Games movies way better than I like the books. I don't know about fandom, but that also seems to be the general consensus among my friends.

[forgottenjester]

Interesting. I don't agree but what you have to say is interesting. Like what you like and fuck the people who give you shit for it. You're not hurting anyone.

[(Anonymous)]

I must say that IMO your taste is dreadful, but that shouldn't stop you from liking what you like.

[(Anonymous)]

I found the LOTR books so dull, but the movies are just as bad IMO. I find the Hunger Games books and films equally good. Star Wars is a bit odd as it was a film first, so books are just spin offs, even the first one I think was George Lucas.

Doesn't matter though, you can like whatever you want :)

[(Anonymous)]

FFS, putting a ~shun the blasphemer~ note on your secret does not automatically make you into poor intimidated fan who must indulge in their preferences in secret because people will actually shun you. It just makes you someone with an opinion that most people don't have. I highly doubt anyone has actually shunned you in your life or ever will, and you attempt to claim you will be shunned so that everyone goes "awwww it's okay OP!" is...really transparent here, I gotta say.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I am so glad there is someone other than me who loves Star Trek books. (I love the tv shows too, but I was introduced to Trek through the books so I am slightly biased toward them.)

CAN WE PLEASE THIS THREAD AS AN EXCUSE TO GUSH ABOUT THE GREATNESS OF STAR TREK LITERATURE?

[dethtoll]

Soz but the first two Star Trek shows are television classics.

(Star Wars can go fuck itself though, movies, books, games, idgaf)

That being said, I can sort of relate. I'll never ever play a game of Warhammer 40k -- ain't nobody got money for that -- but I love some of the better books and despite sucking terribly at RTS I do keep trying my hand at Dawn of War.

[dreemyweird]

I know Star Wars has a ginormous book!canon written by different authors, so I cannot really say what I think about all the books, but I tried reading the Jedi Apprentice series; and the prose itself was so wooden and awkward that I couldn't continue. Also, the characterizations looked like they were written by a five-year-old. Sometimes I encounter it in printed books - characters who seem to have mustered nothing but the most basic emotions, of which they make use whenever they can (having a token "I'm happy" reaction to any good event, a token "I'm sad" to any bad one, and a token "I'm terribly confused" to everything else).

[(Anonymous)]

Like... you like all the Star Trek/Star Wars books? Because some of them are really seriously awful, and there's enough variation... All of them?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I sort of agree? A little but? I mean, I haven't watched and haven't read Hunger Games, but I know I like the LotR movies better than the books. And there was a time in my life when I read a lot of the older Star Trek books, and I enjoyed them more than the show itself. But as others have pointed out, the quality does vary pretty widely from author to author on those. Star Wars - don't know. I read a few of the books one summer years and years ago (this was before the prequels came out), but I don't remember how they compared to the movies for me.

[caerbannog]

I don't see why people should shun you because you prefer one platform over the other for various things, most people do lean one way or another.

I am so far enjoying THG at about the same level as reading them, but the next two movies will probably tip me into liking the movie more.

Secret 7 - Star Trek, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, The Lord of the Rings; books vs movie/show

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a four photographs depicting: various "Star Trek" novels, "Star Wars" novels, the book "The Hunger Games", and a movie poster of "The Lord of the Rings" showing Frodo staring down at the ring.]

[Star Trek, Star Wars]

Love the books, dislike the movies/show.

[Hunger Games, Lord of the Rings]

Love the movies, dislike the books.

Secret because: shun the blasphemer! shuuuuuunnnn

[elaminator]

You like what you like. I've never read Star Trek or Star Wars books, but I know they have their own fanbase and don't see what's wrong with enjoying them. Maybe they aren't to a lot of people's tastes, but if they work for you that's fine.

I adore LOTR in both forms, and although I haven't seen Catching Fire yet I have a feeling that one will be better as a film.

Hunger Games Movies > Books

[(Anonymous)]

by far.

I also hesitantly agree that the Lord of the Rings movies are better than the books. Okay, not hesitantly. They are better. The Hobbit is not included... those movies are a mess.

disagree about Star Wars, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree so hard for LotR! I hate the way Tolkien writes and only read the books because it was required for a class I took. I really liked Tolkien's story but wished he'd found someone else to actually tell the story because he's that bad. I didn't see the movies until years later because I met someone who hated the books and loved the movies and they convinced me to give them a try. I am so glad I finally saw them because they're amazing! I will always respect Peter Jackson for taking the mess that is Tolkien's writing and making it into a a great movie series.

Is that...is that a Charlie the Unicorn reference?

[nyxelestia]

Sorry I don't have anything else more on-topic to offer, but seriously, one awesome nostalgic references there, OP. I tip my hat to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Is there something about source material that puts you off or is it just coincidence?

[(Anonymous)]

Your secret made me go rewatch Charlie the Unicorn. Thank you, OP! *kisses*

Shun the non-believer! Shuuuuuuuuuuuuun!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree so much on LotR. Tolkien was an amazing wordbuilder, his created languages were fantastic and he practically created half of the fantasy cliches down to death now...but his actual writing just never worked for me at all. If he was writing a dissertation it might work, but as an exciting fantasy story? No. So many characters that get pulled out of nowhere and then never show up again, long dull passages that read like chunks from a textbook, Tom freaking Bombadil and don't get me started on the damn deus ex machina eagles. Seriously, I think the fucking eagles may be some of my least favorite fictional characters ever. "Hmm, I seem to have written my characters into a corner they can't get out of. What to do? Wait, I know! Giant eagles, who conveniently only show up at the very last minute!"

[(Anonymous)]

Different strokes for different folks?

(I must admit to thinking it's strange you like the Star Wars books - mostly because I think they're poorly written. I could see how you would like it but not the movies, they're not really similar, but I'm not going to shun you for it.)

And I agree about The Hunger Games. I think those books suck, but the movies are fun.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I never read much of the ST books because they were non-canon. Of those I did read, I must have lucked out on getting good ones.

I read some of the early SW books that I was able to borrow from my brother Noddy. Lost track around about the early half of the "Young Jedi Knights" series.

Haven't read or watched "The Hunger Games".

But LotR I feel I am a bit of a strange animal in that I like both, for different reasons.

The books are deep and epic, and in the Silm's case, practically biblical. I don't like The Hobbit because I read it after LotR and found the lack of detail really annoying. I mean, we have 13 dwarves, but we never get to know most of them! The Elvenking never gets a name in the whole book! He only got a name in LotR so Legolas had a father who had a name!

(Though I will say that on retrospective reading of Narnia, I like the way The Hobbit is written better. Narnia feels like it's talking down to it's audience, The Hobbit doesn't.)

I love the movies for giving us an accessible, visually stunning image. For giving us faces and voices to the characters. For giving us reason to get attached to some characters (like most of the dwarves!) that lacked proper development in the books. I liked the LotR/Silm books, but I got into the fandom because of the movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same way with Lord of the Rings. I can only take so much of Tolkien's writing. I love him. He's a genius, but enough detail is enough detail.