(Eragon: Long story short, it wasn't the most hideous thing I'd ever read, but the writing is really immature for publishing quality (the famous example of a bad line from that book: "Sorry," apologized Brom.), the story itself just feels like the author liked Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Anne McCaffery's dragon books and decided to combine them all into one remixed fantasy novel with barely any original twist of his own to it (it was very, very hard to be surprised by anything that happened in the story, because you just keep this feeling of "I've read this before, in someone else's work..."), and it ticked me off how much of a big deal is made of the fact that the author was 19 when it was published, as if the world of writing and publishing followed the rule "the younger the author, the better the book.")
For me, having edited/beta'ed/workshopped more stories than I care to remember, it's hard to turn off the critic and just sit back and enjoy the story.
Yeah... my creative writing professors demanded so much detail and honesty in criticisms of my classmates' stories that attentive criticism is almost second nature at times now. I sometimes can't shake the feeling that my review for a fanfic is being graded... (Well, graded by anyone besides the author and any bored person looking out for wanks, that is)
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Date: 2006-02-22 08:59 pm (UTC)For me, having edited/beta'ed/workshopped more stories than I care to remember, it's hard to turn off the critic and just sit back and enjoy the story.
Yeah... my creative writing professors demanded so much detail and honesty in criticisms of my classmates' stories that attentive criticism is almost second nature at times now. I sometimes can't shake the feeling that my review for a fanfic is being graded... (Well, graded by anyone besides the author and any bored person looking out for wanks, that is)