Never skipped anything fictional but won’t judge you if you do

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like what you like. I thought the writing was really bad when I was in the target demographic. What I am saying is maybe branch out a bit. Maybe Pendragon truly is the peak of literature but I highly doubt it.

I had the same experience with Linux servers and Simpsons & Futurama characters. The best were the clusters: Patty&Selma and Sherry&Terry.

That and the "lead traveller" being from our world kind of bothered me. In retrospect I think it would have been fun to follow someone from a different planet interacting with our world for the first time lol.

That’s odd that you didn’t feel Herbert’s writing was bad, because it’s honestly very bland and simplistic.

I read that "reading Proust requires extraordinary extra-cognitive perception," and that about sums it up.

He's weaving another dimension into his writing. I probably only really caught about 5% of what he was talking about, but that 5% stands as one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

If you catch on, you'll start falling in love with his prose. This isn't something to barrel through and read for the sake of reading. I found the best I could do was something like skim it, but that was enough. It's like reading a poem, where it's not literary devices that are the object, but poetic essence.

Shakespeare wrote the English of his time. Even for plays about Ancient Rome.

Tolkien didn’t really write the dialogue of his day. Not even the high literature type of dialogue of his day. It doesn’t mean his work is badly written, just that, indeed, his dialogue can be too stiff, much the way Icelandic Saga can do dialogue - which would sound very wooden to us, but we’d accept because in theory it’s best part isn’t the dialogue.

I'm pretty sure Spader is solely responsible for book 2 being my favourite.

I literally read every day but ok

I read it in middle school. Loved the concept, but the last two books a huge let down, at least from what I remember. In general I feel like the earlier books were a bit more tightly plotted.

Although, hey, maybe I would actually enjoy how convoluted it got more if I read it again as an adult?

Thanks, yeah I'm discovering it all now haha. Clearly had my blinders up!

I will just say that if this is your favourite series you need to read more.

Btw, I think you can mark the post with SPOILER so it doesn’t show the extra text in the Home page, only the title :)

You can say it 100 times, doesn’t mean it’s true.

I can’t stand Yen in ANY of the books. This kind of attitude from women in books written by men makes me very mad.

The mythology and fighting I love. New monsters I never heard about and stories from Poland, I loved that.

yup, I played the games first, thought the games were just based on the books but later realised they are not and started reading them and damn they are so good.

You’re completely delusional

I respectfully disagree

Love the books! I'm on my second listen through. And they are still great!

I read it when I was 11 and I thought it was kind of bad.

It means no state funds. This won't harm larger cities mostly, as they usually have taxes levied to help them operate, but rural communities libraries rely on state funding much more. This will lead to potential closures, largely impacting small communities that realistically aren't doing anything the gop lawmakers are worried about.

Yeah, I was trying to remember conversations from many years ago. I've read the books a couple of times. I like em, but they could used some editing.

Some old mystery novels had a cast of characters list in front. I scorned that silly idea ... until I started using them to keep track of colonel this and major that and which was the vicar's wife and the vicar's sister ...

??? what do you mean to say?