No comment on the threesome? Are you ok?Not to be a Danny Downer on all literature, but also HP Lovecraft.
How can everything be indescribable?!
Isn’t describing things the author’s main job?
What?!
In response to @Apisto42 s
Yes, I’m not into Hitchhiker’s guide
I also don’t like The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Harry Potter series
The Lord of the Rings
Or any number of other book or movie series that seemingly everyone else on the planet Earth loves.
You are both dead to me.This must be why we are friends.
I did manage to force my way through Hitchhiker, but found it to be an excruciating experience. Which is probably why I remember little.
Ok, fine. I guess you can still be my friend. But you’re on notice.I also left out Monty Python.
Have you ever noticed when you tell someone you don’t find Monty Python funny, they immediately start quoting all the Python stuff you don’t find funny? Why do they do that?
I will admit that I laughed when the rabbit bit that guy’s head off in the Holy Grail.
I think it’s because I read Hitchhikers as a teenage boy. I found the absurdism attractive and funny. Of course I also think life in general is fucking absurd, so it also validated my world view.
I realized in my 20’s that I self edit LOtR, skipping the dry parts, the songs (awful), and just going with the story.I. Do. Not. Know.
Because beating you over the head with something repeatedly wears you down?
The writing is dry as dust and interminable.
Well, the trilogy was really just an extension of his mythology and language building.
RHPC - again, absurdism. Validation that yes, humanity is too full of itself and most things are funny.
I might've just lost a mouthful of ginger tea.
I don't think he's ok. He must have something else on the mind. Or the other mind.I might've just lost a mouthful of ginger tea.
Oh, now I get it. I didn’t pick up on this.
I noticed before that books read as tween/teenager can have a far weightier impact than when read as an adult. I've struggled to see why people found their particular books insightful.
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The Barsoom series influence me still. Maybe it’s just what’s his name art.
I noticed before that books read as tween/teenager can have a far weightier impact than when read as an adult. I've struggled to see why people found their particular books insightful.
My dad had a bunch of heilein that I read about the same age. Probably still influences my sci-fi choices.Yet, I read some Heinlein between 12-14, and those two books strongly impacted my adult life view.
-The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
-Time Enough for Love
Well yes, but nothing is perfect in life, enjoy the parts that are good and ignore the shitty parts and you’re happier.
Hrmph.Don't unfriend me!!!
I will admit to skipping over the songs and everything Tom Bombadil. You have a valid point.
Frazetta!!! Omg, you absolute heathen.The Barsoom series influence me still. Maybe it’s just what’s his name art.
Same here...
agree with these comments.
People. You realize no ponderous tomb of a book - read for pleasure - should not require that kind of self-editing?
Although it would have provided a perfect time for me to go pee and not miss anything important.Sorry, Enny... another LoTR fan here.
Same here...
The songs were too much and I can see why Tom Bombadil was left out of the movies!
He was a professor, so I think that's valid. lolPeople. You realize no ponderous tomb of a book - read for pleasure - should not require that kind of self-editing?
I don't care what anyone says. It has to have been a vanity publish.
Jinx!Sorry, Enny... another LoTR fan here.
Same here...
The songs were too much and I can see why Tom Bombadil was left out of the movies!
Can tell you haven't read the books or seen the movie.
Loveable? Sexy? Kinky?Jinx!
I stand firm.
You people are . . . idk what you are. But something.
Well, I did try to read the first book.Can tell you haven't read the books or seen the movie.
The correct quote is "fool of a took".
That's it.
The whole world building and language and everything about it was a vanity project. He felt that the UK did not have a cohesive mythology and wanted to create one basically. It’s why most of his other works were never actually finished, just in various stages of editing and rewriting.People. You realize no ponderous tomb of a book - read for pleasure - should not require that kind of self-editing?
I don't care what anyone says. It has to have been a vanity publish.
But he's agreeing with you! And if I didn't spend my 30s wanting to bang a hot elf and a ranger, I would be agreeing with you in every way.I'm starting to feel outnumbered here.
