It's like raiding the bargain book bin. Most of what you find is pretty unreadable, but then you find a gem that is really worth it. I've found at least five of my favourite authors (one of which I didn't thin I'd readagain after a really badset of first books). Sometimes you have to dive into the sewer trench to retrieve the gold ring. The only thing I begrudge is Doom but that was really because I was bored, it was free, and I was curious how really bad it was [answer: very]. It's the bland stuff, the same old same old, that annoys me the most. Then again my tastes very heavily from most of yours. A single good scene or line can, IMNSHO save an entire book/film.
You have to use some discretion as to which sewer you dive headfirst into. After all you are looking for overlooked gold that other people discarded without thinking. For example I wouldn't be seen anywhere near the Harlequin Romance culvert or ... the [Insert Country]'s Top Model cess-pool, to take an example at (not very) random.
Plus it does actually feel good to be able to find something good in the trash. Makes it really worthwhile. One of my big complaints these days is that the price of books means that I cannot gratuitously try new authors as much as I used to.
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Is there a LJ feed for that comic?
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I was gonna say I just get it on RSS (as for most comics) but generally there's an LJ feed out there somewhere too...
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The only thing I begrudge is Doom but that was really because I was bored, it was free, and I was curious how really bad it was [answer: very]. It's the bland stuff, the same old same old, that annoys me the most.
Then again my tastes very heavily from most of yours. A single good scene or line can, IMNSHO save an entire book/film.
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