02-25-2022, 11:21 PM
(02-25-2022, 10:43 PM)Terry93D Wrote: Apologies Mattias, I certainly did not mean to imply that you didn't and it didn't occur to me when writing that that that's how that would sound.
No worries at all, I just wanted to make clear that when I complain about reading and writing it's not coming from a place of being unacquainted* with either. Sometimes I think I'm just being too picky, and sometimes I just like to complain.
(02-25-2022, 10:43 PM)Terry93D Wrote: One of my favorite writers has occasionally been compared to Robin Hobb, so I might eventually read her books.
You totally should. I've been hovering my finger over the BUY button on the Farseer Trilogy bundle on Kobo.com for weeks now. I've only read the first book so far.
(02-25-2022, 10:43 PM)Terry93D Wrote: I think another thing is that different readers want different things out of the books they read, of course. Much, maybe even most, of classic fantasy wouldn't scratch my particular itches - which is not the fault of those books anymore than it's the fault of the books I like for not scratching another's itches. I know I've read books that are good but for which I'm completely the wrong reader. And I've read books seemingly written to scratch my itches. I'd bet money that both are experiences that most readers have had.
I definitely know what you mean. I've read good books that shouldn't technically appeal to me (Dennis Lehane comes to mind) but still do because they're written in a way that gets me engaged in the story. At the same time, I've read SOOO many books in my preferred genres of fantasy, sci-fi and horror where it feels like I should love them but yet I don't.
Honestly, if someone put a gun to my head and said "Name your three favorite writers in three seconds or you die!", I would say Stephen King, Clive Barker and William Gibson. Not one of them a fantasy writer per se. So I guess I like the idea of fantasy fiction but I am very picky about how said fantasy fiction should be told.
* Unacquainted is probably one of the weirdest and clunkiest words in English when it comes to spelling. I typed it four times, all of them looked wrong, so I had to look it up.