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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RiggsWolfe" data-source="post: 1342626" data-attributes="member: 2734">I really think alot of this debate boils down to two different types of readers. Readers who do so for some kind of intellectual stimulation and those who do it for enjoyment. I belong to the second type. I will read any book I enjoy. If I enjoy it enough I will read it more than once. I have my preferences of course. Terry Brooks bores me for instance. I found Thomas Covenant hard to struggle through and depressing. I was frustrated with some of the writing in the Lord of the Rings. I find most "classics" utterly boring and hard to read, though I appreciate the underlying themes of books such as A Tale of Two Cities. Give me a good Runelords or Honor Harrington anyday. I used to work with this guy who would give me these long lectures about how Hemingway would move him to moments of awe and intellectual bliss. This came about when I asked him if he enjoyed the DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. He sort of curled his lip and told me it was ok for the masses but not good literature. During this entire monologue I was basically feeling sorry for the poor man. Somewhere along the way he lost track of reading for pleasure and turned it into some kind of critical journey.I'll be honest, the Fifth Sorceress sounds kind of interesting to me. Sounds like the guy decided to take a chance and not write a politically correct fantasy novel. I may pay my $8 and see. I read the reviews on Amazon.com and my big thought was "I bet if it was the Wizards who were evil and the Sorceresses were the pure heroes these people would be raving about this book."I should say, I read the website that was part of the subject of this post and it made me sick. Nothing but a bunch of judgemental tripe. Just another person who has decided his opinion has more intrinsic value than others.</blockquote>

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