I bought...
I went to the bookstore last night...sort of by mistake, because I was actually going to buy office files but the office stores were closed, so after all the trouble, I had to go somewhere and what better place to go than a bookstore?
So...you, know, I hardly ever buy books, least of all books I have never read, but, I bought Crime and Punishment . I'm just sick of checking stuff out of the library and having to take it back, and I want to own books myself! So there you have it.
I'm just one sewing lesson away from making up for the money spent, though, and I've gotten a couple chapters in and, wow! I really like it already...it's just effortless. I'm really looking forward to reading the whole thing. I think I'll hold off trying to analyze it's awesomeness until I've finished. ;-)
(And knowing me, that will be pretty quickly, now that I've started...)
I also got traumatized by bad fantasy books whilst there. The covers - so blatantly fantasy as they are, usually involving a muscular hero with a sword and a -----(I don't think I'll even go there) heroine clutching him - have always been amusing, at best, annoying at worst, but yesterday I started flipping them over and reading the back covers.
And oh my gosh. Heaven forbid I should ever write anything like that.
A surprising number of the ones I picked up involved a Mysterious heroine, a Magical object, and a Black Mage. And what's more, the excerpts of the writing were truly horrendous! The descriptions were very movie-fied and left no room for imagination, besides being rather meaningless except insofar as they were time consuming...and maybe a bit fan-servicey. (To apply the term to books, as it kinda fits...)
How do these things get published? I'm going to stop worrying about trying to get published and start worrying about getting something awful published. (Actually, I don't think much about getting published...it's a bit early for that I guess, but if I think 'oh, I'd never, ever publish anything' than I'm not taking it seriously enough to really work on improving. Hence the reasoning.)
But oh, fantasy...! *flees*
So...you, know, I hardly ever buy books, least of all books I have never read, but, I bought Crime and Punishment . I'm just sick of checking stuff out of the library and having to take it back, and I want to own books myself! So there you have it.
I'm just one sewing lesson away from making up for the money spent, though, and I've gotten a couple chapters in and, wow! I really like it already...it's just effortless. I'm really looking forward to reading the whole thing. I think I'll hold off trying to analyze it's awesomeness until I've finished. ;-)
(And knowing me, that will be pretty quickly, now that I've started...)
I also got traumatized by bad fantasy books whilst there. The covers - so blatantly fantasy as they are, usually involving a muscular hero with a sword and a -----(I don't think I'll even go there) heroine clutching him - have always been amusing, at best, annoying at worst, but yesterday I started flipping them over and reading the back covers.
And oh my gosh. Heaven forbid I should ever write anything like that.
A surprising number of the ones I picked up involved a Mysterious heroine, a Magical object, and a Black Mage. And what's more, the excerpts of the writing were truly horrendous! The descriptions were very movie-fied and left no room for imagination, besides being rather meaningless except insofar as they were time consuming...and maybe a bit fan-servicey. (To apply the term to books, as it kinda fits...)
How do these things get published? I'm going to stop worrying about trying to get published and start worrying about getting something awful published. (Actually, I don't think much about getting published...it's a bit early for that I guess, but if I think 'oh, I'd never, ever publish anything' than I'm not taking it seriously enough to really work on improving. Hence the reasoning.)
But oh, fantasy...! *flees*