[ SECRET POST #2578 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2578 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No, I've definitely read fanfic better than Catcher in the Rye. Because Catcher in the Rye is shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for saying it so I didn't have to.

[intrigueing]

Aw, I think Catcher in the Rye was awesome. But I won't say it's impossible for fanfic to be better than it.

[(Anonymous)]

Catcher in the Rye is one of those classics that a *lot* of people hate.

[intrigueing]

I blame all the shitty copycatters. I mean, "troubled whiny teenage angst" is an incredibly overused plot by now.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Nah, I just found nothing sympathetic, redeeming, or even interesting about the main character. I think it was just too much of a lit-fic man-pain flavor of teenage angst, because "troubled whiny teenage angst" is usually the sort of thing I have sympathy for. It's admittedly been fifteen years since I read the book, but in retrospect, it seems too much like Holden Caulfield was going to grow up to become Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty. YMMV, but blecch.

[inevitableentresol]

About 30% of the fanfic I've read is better than Catcher in the Rye.

Fanfic doesn't even have to have good spelling and grammar to be better than that book. Just to have a less wah-wah-wangsty protagonist.

The problem with published books which are terrible is that I (used to) get sucked into reading the whole thing because I couldn't believe the book got published. I would keep reading until they 'got good'. Which hardly ever happened. Thanks to fanfic, I don't make that mistake any more. Three chapters, and I'm out.

Fanfic has this fantastic thing called a back button. Everybody knows that 90% of fanfic is shit, sure - the remaining 10% divided into pretty good with 1% of that being the pure gold. Thanks to BACKBUTTON - quickly away from the dross and in search of the gold.

The best original fic will always be better than the best fanfic, perhaps.

But in terms of ease of finding quality new stories per time taken, fanfic has a better hit rate, because of links, searchability, recs and backbutton. Add to that the subjects that fanfic covers - niche storylines that make no sense to publish commercially.

At the moment, fanfic wins.