Now reading I like, or at least I used to. For a while I had read quite often, going through about two or three fantasy or sci-fi novels a week. But then I got to writing and writers block drives one to frustration and before you know it I'm just sick of books in general. I burned out.
🙁 So instead I hop onto my PC and kill stuff. That phase will probably wear off sooner or later though and I'll go back to reading at least. It might be a while before I write again though.
And ugh, LOTR. I'm one of those people who finds that Tolkein had a great story and an amazing imagination, but he has such a boring writing style that it's really hard to actually enjoy his brilliance. It's a painful duality. His stories are so exciting that you can't stop reading ... except when you keep falling asleep. **ROFL**
To this day I still don't know how I managed to read The Hobbit in just one night. That was way back in the old high school days though when I was full of youth and vigor. That's just what happens when you procrastinate a necessary book report for too long. Heh heh.
Anywho I'll take the much worse writing style (but just as good of a story) of Roger Zelazny and his unfinished Amber series before I'll put up with anymore Tolkein. Heck, I'll even read Piers Anthony's Xanth novels before I'll touch any more Tolkein.
😛 (Actually they're not such a bad read if you can get in that mood. His Incarnation series is much better though ... even if it starts to get just as boring eventually.)
However I think that some of my favorite reads come from those lesser-known authors. Dorana Durgin is one of my favorites from that category. (Though maybe by now maybe she's not so 'lesser-known' anymore. I dunno.) Maybe it's just me but her Touched By Magic series was one of the best reads ever in my opinion. I can see how I actually read TBM all in one night. (The first night that I owned it at that.)
And then there are writers like Anne Rice who just don't deserve the fame that they have. If anyone deserves to be sliced to death from papercuts inflicted with the pages of their own boring novels it's her. I'm not to fond of the stereotypical boring war and spy reads that seem to be best sellers lately either. I can't even force myself to complete them. Kind of like the Wheel of Time books actually...
Oh well. Anywho, enough of my rambling. These be just mine own opinions and I respect anyone's right to disagree with me.
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