You'd have an aneurysm trying to read the Dune series, lol.
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Every book as a target audience. You don't like it, fine.
Quality of content vs engaging presentation. I can understand this despite my loathing of Twilight
till
\sigh
This is not an unpopular opinion.
It's rage bait.
Lotr is boring as fuck but twilight is garbage pap. I cant read either
I was about to come in here guns blazing, but I did read twilight in high school. I tried to read LOTR but I tapped out 100 pages in. It's just. So. Dry.
So well played, fuck you.
I totally agree and I hate myself for it. I only got a few chapters into the Two Towers. I did read all of the Hobbit though
I think this is the first time an opinion has triggered my gag reflex.
You disgust me. Have an upvote.
You might as well just start insisting that green is actually red, because that is how hilariously, ridiculously, mind-numbingly wrong you are.
Opinions are never wrong. They are just popular or unpopular :)
That's like just your opinion man
Upvoted because you are wrong
Haven’t tried to read Twilight, but I tried to read LOTR and couldn’t because it was so fricking boring
I hate everything about this post
But you really might like Percy Jackson books.
But you really might like Percy Jackson books.
I do.
Have either of you read the Pendragon series by D.J. McHale? If you liked Percy Jackson, you'll probably enjoy them as well. I really enjoyed the audio books.
I don't know how to tag/ping people on Lemmy, so i hope u/surewhynotlem sees this as well. @surewhynotlem (<- just checking if that works)
Have a great day!
Thanks for the recommendation.
Me too. It's wonderful brain candy
That what Lit RPG is for me
Fucking hell, I hate having to upvote this...so much....
Twilight is everything that is wrong with modern literature. It's dumbing down your art in order to cater to a population whose reading levels have declined to the low grade school level over the years.
Good books increase your literacy. You learn new things from reading them; new words, new phrases, etc... an author is supposed to add to the collective intelligence of the world, not debase themselves to write at a fourth grade level so that their books are more popular to incurious illiterates.
LotR is really, really old. It's another time with different reading habits and writing culture. It's just logical it can't really compete with current literature. It might beba masterpiece but when the audience changes its just not so appealing anymore.
Hmmm. I like The Lord of the Rings more overall, but it could feel...draggy at points.
The only part in the first two Twilight books I liked when I was was told to read them when I worked at Borders was her use of empty chapters to represent depression and the passage of time. I'm a sucker for using the medium like that.
I should read House of Leaves.
House of Leaves drags at times. At times it's gripping, and at times I was bored stiff. It's interesting, I think it's nutty, I think it's a real reach and ought to be lauded, but I just never thought it was that good. I've discovered I'm just a sucker for classic epic fantasy though, so perhaps it just weren't for me. I also read it 20 years ago at this point, and so perhaps with my maturity I might enjoy another read. My brother in law just got me a copy actually, which is good because my original copy disappeared.
I never read Twilight so I have nothing to add there.
It still feels like something I should try and read, House of Leaves. I don't think I'll suuuuper enjoy it, mostly because horror is very much not my jam, but use of medium very much is!
Twilight was easy to read is another bonus for it. You can tear through them quickly. Which is what I did when told I had to read them by my boss. I read the first two in...twoish days, returned them, said "Okay I've read the first two, please don't make me read more" and she said okay.
Just curious, why did your boss require you to read Twilight?
It was Borders and sometimes she just wanted us to read a popular book so we could talk to customers about it. It was right before the midnight release of the 4th book, and I'd be register that night, so she wanted me to...try and talk about it, I guess.
I just sold them the books and wished them a good night and hoped they enjoyed it instead!
Have worked at Barnes and Noble before, the Harry Potter Craze was insane, I get it
This is such an insane take I love it
Did you read the Hobbit? Might be more your speed. I'd also most highly recommend The Children of Hurin.
Thats a unique way to call someone a dumb sibling fucker
You like what you like. I prefer science fiction myself. I tried reading the first LOTR book and I couldn't get through it bcz it had like 2 straight pages describing the scenery.
Followed by two more pages describing each piece of food on the table in as much detail as possible.
Lotr was clearly written when people had more time on their hands.
Lotr's time use and verbosity is nothing to me, I've read Robert Jordan's works.
This is all based on my weak memory, but I read maybe half Robert Jordan's wheel of time and dont remember having the same issue. I can't remember why I didnt finish the series though, so maybe it was a bit too drawn out for me after all.
I recal lots of joking about being paid by the word, even he himself made jokes about the length of his novels, when he was dying while trying to finish the last of the story he said Tor would have to invent a new binding method because he was going to fit it all into the last one, no matter what. Sadly he didn't have enough time but left enough worldbuilding behind.
I think they might have been some of my favorates in part because of the length tbh, I'm a very fast reader.
It is nice to spend so much time in a well built world, I should go back and reread/finish it.