Tell me what you like to read!

[fiddleyoumust]

Poll Kirk

Bonus Question: Why? Why? Why? If you have the time, I'd love to hear why you picked what you picked. Why does that kind of story do it for you? Discuss!

Comments

[thelana]

I should probably add that to me long/short, plot/not-plot is often a totally different experience for me. To me short and nice might be any easy fix if I love something and I just want a bit of something.

Reading something long with a good plot is more of real intention to really want to read something. Like reading an actual book. A good, longer fanfic is to me like reading a book (actually? I mostly pick out books when I buy them the same way, by looking at which one has an interesting summary or an interesting concept [well, plus a bunch of must read writers, like Bill Bryson or Terry Pratchett]).

I think that's also why WIPs mean nothing to me, because they cheat me out of the experience of really sitting *down* for a longer *story*. I guess it's just a different type of committment to really get into a longer story.

Humor is an odd thing. I like funny movies well enough and I love a lot of funny tv shows (and actually hate it when something that is supposed to be funny (like Friend or The Office) turns into deep relationship angst), but just like I pretty much never get fannish about funny shows the way I get fannish about dramas or scifi shows, most humor fic just doesn't register with me. And while I think that Bryson and Pratchett are extremely funny, in my mind, I can't remember ever having intentionally spent money on a funny book that was advertised as a funny book [I for one totally appreciate the more serious, political tone of the more recent Pratchetts and I wouldn't be buying Bryson if his topics didn't interest me]. It's weird, I remember liking lots of funny short stories from a lot of people when I read them, but maybe there's a snobby part of my brain refuses to really see it as deeper fiction.

I think there's also the angle with poetry, I think I'm just not a quote person. I never remember exact quotes and phrases from anything. I remember situations or moods or even a great mental image. But poetry often relies on the *exact phrase* and a lot of great humor relies on great one liners, so those details are lost to me.

But, I think we have discussed my weird tastes often enough, so most of this is probably old and boring to you (especially since these aren't necessarily very shared tastes).