Book Fights
May. 31st, 2013 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eltanin_dracoThere are a finite number of good authors. That being said, the main problem with reading a lot is not that there aren't enough good authors, it's that they are often hard to find. There are the popular authors and books that everyone knows, but then there are also a lot of diamonds in the rough, that just require searching. But searching means wading through a lot of crap before finding the good stuff. The approach I tend to take is through recommendations from my friends, but this leads to problems too.
Recommending a book to a friend is one of the best things that one can do. Everyone needs more books to read (even when you have a list of books to read, it's always good to have one more!). I even have a great friend with very similar reading preferences as myself and he is almost as obsessed with the books he reads as I am. This is great, as we can recommend books to one another and then talk about them endlessly (well, almost) after we have both read it.
There's a problem though.
If we both read a book that fits into our genre of books we like, but don't both agree on whether or not its good, then our discussion gets heated. You'd think this isn't a big deal, and often it isn't. But there are occasions when we cannot agree, and it get's close to violent. It definitely gets to "if that's what you think, you can get the fuck out of my car!" serious. Thankfully after it gets to that point, or at least, after it gets to a day or two after that point, we are able to look back and laugh about it.
Because really, you have to be good friends to get that upset over discussing a book.
Recommending a book to a friend is one of the best things that one can do. Everyone needs more books to read (even when you have a list of books to read, it's always good to have one more!). I even have a great friend with very similar reading preferences as myself and he is almost as obsessed with the books he reads as I am. This is great, as we can recommend books to one another and then talk about them endlessly (well, almost) after we have both read it.
There's a problem though.
If we both read a book that fits into our genre of books we like, but don't both agree on whether or not its good, then our discussion gets heated. You'd think this isn't a big deal, and often it isn't. But there are occasions when we cannot agree, and it get's close to violent. It definitely gets to "if that's what you think, you can get the fuck out of my car!" serious. Thankfully after it gets to that point, or at least, after it gets to a day or two after that point, we are able to look back and laugh about it.
Because really, you have to be good friends to get that upset over discussing a book.