[ SECRET POST #2619 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

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

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[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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03.
[Pushing Daisies]


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04.
[Dallas Buyers Club]


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05.
[Bravely Default]


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06.
[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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07.
[Warehouse 13]


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08.
[Willem Dafoe]


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09.
[Dexter]


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10.
[Rooster Teeth]


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11.
[Lost Girl]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love reading. I read a ton. I read all of the Sherlock Holmes books when I was in junior high. I read fantasy all the time. And I can't stand JRRT. His writing is definitely a different (possibly acquired taste.) I tried three times to read his books. I own the trilogy and the Hobbit. But it just... What killed it for me the last time I tried was the battle in I want to say The Two Towers? Where the entire battle is basically just Gimli and Legolas shouting out their kill tallies. WTF is interesting about that? And there was a lot of description and the like that just didn't pull me in at all.

I'm not saying he is a horrid writer or people shouldn't look at his works as classics. I'm just saying that there is a definite style to it and not everyone will be able to read it/enjoy it and I can understand the complaints as I share them.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough, and I agree that they're not everyone's style (nor should they be). Style is understandable. I, personally, cannot stand Dan Brown or Stieg Larsson's trilogy. But they're comprehensible to me, you know? I could read them without being confused. And I think the same holds true of Holmes and LotRs.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I actually can't stand tons of verbiage, but I find ACD's descriptions to be very vivid and not excessive. He doesn't go on as many tangents as Dickens, for sure.

[(Anonymous)]

Dickens was a serial writer being paid by the inch, and sometimes it really, really shows.

[(Anonymous)]

Citation needed.

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently he was really paid per installment: http://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/faq/by-the-word.html

[(Anonymous)]

It certainly explains why occasionally you get a chapter that's just a random conversation between background characters.

[(Anonymous)]

The chapter that concerns the battle is about 7600 words long. Legolas and Gimli's contest takes up about 135 words (plus around 50 more at the beginning of the next chapter). I don't care if people don't like Tolkien or find him hard to read - I love him now, but it took at least five tries before I even managed to get out of the Shire, so I do get it - but to say that the battle is largely concerned with their kill tallies is just so incorrect. Maybe it felt that way reading it though!

(Sorry, I just see people slam Tolkien a lot for things that aren't even present in his work. There are valid criticisms of him and his writing style to be made, and I don't expect him to be to everyone's taste, but far too often it's this kind of thing. It gets frustrating!)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm like you, but it's not that LRRT is hard to read, it's just deathly boring. Especially the stupid songs.