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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9582994" data-attributes="member: 85555">Yeah having stuff you simply don’t enjoy, or find too off putting, is fine. I couldn’t get through Lord Foul’s Bane because there is something pretty shocking that happens and I just felt uneasy. That doesn’t make it a bad book. I just didn’t like the direction it took. It just gave me a sinking feeling. On the other hand Return of Condor Heroes has a similar type of moment, and it still bothered me when that scene happened, but the story was compelling enough that I continued (and it is an important plot point in the story)I think when we start cataloguing tropes and dismissing a books value based on the trope alone, then that is more of an issue (I find TV tropes style criticism kind of lazy: I.e. oh there is Y trope, or there is the X trope). A good writer can work with long established tropes even if they aren’t trying to flip or cast new light on them</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 9582994, member: 85555"] Yeah having stuff you simply don’t enjoy, or find too off putting, is fine. I couldn’t get through Lord Foul’s Bane because there is something pretty shocking that happens and I just felt uneasy. That doesn’t make it a bad book. I just didn’t like the direction it took. It just gave me a sinking feeling. On the other hand Return of Condor Heroes has a similar type of moment, and it still bothered me when that scene happened, but the story was compelling enough that I continued (and it is an important plot point in the story) I think when we start cataloguing tropes and dismissing a books value based on the trope alone, then that is more of an issue (I find TV tropes style criticism kind of lazy: I.e. oh there is Y trope, or there is the X trope). A good writer can work with long established tropes even if they aren’t trying to flip or cast new light on them [/QUOTE]

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