I shouldn’t have to strain to understand what an author is saying to get little to no pleasure from it. Reading should be fun, which isn’t to say I read only mollycoddling garbage like Lord of the Rings. But my life is too short for Mrs Dalloway or As I Lay Dying.
>>25188697if you can't handle banks then perhaps edward Elmer Smith will be easier on you.
>>25188711No, I like Banks. Been reading 6 chapters in one sitting because he’s so fun. I’m high on ganja and coming down from MDMA, and trying to read Woolf right now seems so fake and contrived.
>>25188713you might like Bruce Sterling
>>25188697>But my life is too short for Mrs DallowayOne of the messages of the book in fact. It was just a little incidental Edwardian piece. Melancholic rather than Wodehouse's doltish romps. >>25188713It's not fake, it's stream of consciousness. Never pick up Joyce if Dalloway bothers you. Loving Banks too.
>>25188697>mollycoddling garbage like Lord of the Ringsretard
>>25188944Did this trvke booty blast you?
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that may be the second worst "criticism" of tolkien i have read
>>25188947>>25188949>>25188954https://worldwithoutmoneyarg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/moorcock-1978-epic-pooh-in-arena-2-anarchists-in-fiction-2011.pdf>Writers like Tolkien take you to the edge of the Abyss and point out the excellent tea-garden at the bottom, showing you the steps carved into the cliff and reminding you to be a bit careful because the hand-rails are a trifle shaky as you go down; they haven’t got the approval yet to put a new one in.
>>25188697>Reading Should Be Fun>posts the most boring space opera ever
