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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 1343275" data-attributes="member: 1645">Barsoomcore answered this quite nicely: From his name, you should realize he's not &quot;above&quot; a good, two-fisted, action yarn, but one of the things he enjoys in reading is intellectual stimulation.Certainly there are pretentious English majors who enjoy Ulysses specifically because you don't.&nbsp; But there are also people who have read both &quot;classic&quot; pulp and derivative pastiches and much prefer the classics -- which are not at all dry, stuffy, or pretentious.I highly recommend them -- and not at all because they're &quot;good for you&quot;; they're just good ol' rip-roarin' yarns.Can you tell us which works bored you?&nbsp; I can certainly understand finding Tolkien slow.&nbsp; A pulp editor would have cut the whole Lord of the Rings down to The Hobbit's size.&nbsp; And, as much as I loved The Worm Ouroboros, if you don't enjoy ancient sagas translated into King James' English, the language will kill you.&nbsp; Similarly, Lord Dunsany's works may drip with poetry and metaphor, but they don't drip with bloody action.I can't imagine finding Robert E. Howard's works slow or boring though.&nbsp; I also can't imagine finding Edgar Rice Burrough's stories slow; you may find them corny and dated, but certainly not slow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 1343275, member: 1645"] Barsoomcore answered this quite nicely: From his name, you should realize he's not "above" a good, two-fisted, action yarn, but one of the things he enjoys in reading is intellectual stimulation. Certainly there are pretentious English majors who enjoy [i]Ulysses[/i] specifically because you don't. But there are also people who have read both "classic" pulp and derivative pastiches and much prefer the classics -- which are not at all dry, stuffy, or pretentious. I highly recommend them -- and not at all because they're "good for you"; they're just good ol' rip-roarin' yarns. Can you tell us which works bored you? I can certainly understand finding Tolkien slow. A pulp editor would have cut the whole [i]Lord of the Rings[/i] down to [i]The Hobbit[/i]'s size. And, as much as I loved [i]The Worm Ouroboros[/i], if you don't enjoy ancient sagas translated into King James' English, the language will kill you. Similarly, Lord Dunsany's works may drip with poetry and metaphor, but they don't drip with bloody action. I can't imagine finding Robert E. Howard's works slow or boring though. I also can't imagine finding Edgar Rice Burrough's stories slow; you may find them corny and dated, but certainly not slow. [/QUOTE]

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