Explanation - invariably I will read a fantastic book, beautifully written with a sweeping or moving story that is profoundly impactful…and some amateur reviewer will have written, “That book is so boring! Blah, blah, blah, nothing exciting ever happens!” 🙄

When I read these, I often pause to try to imagine what sort of book those reviewers WOULD like, lol. No doubt its probably an elitist, pompous exercise…but its fun imagining for a moment a book filled with non-stop, over the top action, gory or imaginative deaths by the dozens, torrid romantic liasons, CIA and KGB and SS agents around every corner, etc. Ive been tempted to write that book, tongue in cheek, just so those reviewers would have something to be happy about.

Then I thought…maybe someone has already done this? Intentionally written a book so egregiously over-the-top that even those action-aholics might be tempted to say, “too fast, and too much excitement…” in their reviews?

  • Agomir@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hah. I’ve been almost tempted to try writing the opposite. Books in a fantasy realm where nothing much happens. They live in a village in the middle of nowhere, and just have boring day to day lives. Sometimes tell each other stories about magic and famous people and battles. Each book is the next generation. Then maybe at book 7, there’s a major, potentially world shattering event with lots of magic and stuff, a hero with a destiny to save the world, and it’s told by one of the people from the village who left to find adventure and got stuck doing guard duty in the capital. So they only see everything from afar. Then when the world is saved they get sick of guard duty and go home to their village and stay there. And then maybe a few more books about the next generations in the village after that.