Repercussions

[ladysprite]

The true tragedy and horror of the holiday season is this:

Winding up with a new Charles DeLint novel - the first collection of Newford short stories in years - and a new Kelley Armstrong novel, finally focusing on your favorite characters again, both waiting and teasing and tempting you on your to-read pile while you're about 100 pages from the end of the most dull, poorly-written, mediocre urban fantasy novel that it's ever been your dubious pleasure to plod through.

I've put enough time and effort into finishing this book that I don't want to give up now, this close to the end. But it's getting harder and harder to push through it with such delicious brain candy waiting for me and calling my name.

Of course, then I have the added trauma of having to choose between the two...

My life is so hard.

Comments

[zombie-dog.livejournal.com]

I have fears about being the author who writes That Book.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

The thing is, as far as I can tell, for almost any author there's going to be someone who feels that way about them, and someone who thinks they're the best to ever put pen to paper.

I can't stand this book. But other people liked it enough that the author got a trilogy deal and the books sell pretty well. I would walk through fire for Charles DeLint's fiction; other friends of mine think his writing is pathologically dull.

This is why it is awesome that there are many different writers out there - we all get to have something we like.