The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

How can this description not come from a book that qualifies as "great literature"?

Dr. Chuck Tingle is a national treasure and tae kwon do master whose works belong on the Mount Rushmore of literature, alongside Shakespeare, Joyce, and James Patterson.

 

[darjr]

I like less than half of you half as well

 

[Cadence]

Yeah if we find ourselves in a situation where we have to debate the definition of "great literature" we've already lost.

I might just be too picky about giving out the superlatives.

There are plenty of books that make my spirit soar, or draw me in to a legendary feeling or world, or where the characters feel like family. And then they'll have one thing I don't like or not stick the ending, or I read a paragraph by someone like Josephine Tey at her best and be reminded how their wordsmithing isn't that.

I guess I could start using great for things I'd give an 8/10 instead of 10/10. Maybe easier to just not worry about it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I guess I could start using great for things I'd give an 8/10 instead of 10/10. Maybe easier to just not worry about it.

Naw. It's better to have high standards than low expectations.

 

[MarkB]

Pounded in the Brain by Hasbro's Refusal to Name their Next D&D Product After a Dinosaur

I'm disappointed by them shying away from numbered editions, the marketing value for the next one is just so undeniable.

I'm too 6e for my shirt,
Too 6e for my shirt,
So 6e it hurts...

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I'm disappointed by them shying away from numbered editions, the marketing value for the next one is just so undeniable.

I'm to 6e for my shirt,
Too 6e for my shirt,
So 6e it hurts...

Now all I can think about is the inevitable Right Said Fred / Chuck Tingle crossover.

 

[J.Quondam]

I'm disappointed by them shying away from numbered editions, the marketing value for the next one is just so undeniable.

I'm too 6e for my shirt,
Too 6e for my shirt,
So 6e it hurts...

Oh... The "All Bards, All the Time" edition.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Oh... The "All Bards, All the Time" edition.

Behold ... 6e!


You're welcome.

 

[prabe]

Naw. It's better to have high standards than low expectations.

 

[Gradine]

I might just be too picky about giving out the superlatives.

There are plenty of books that make my spirit soar, or draw me in to a legendary feeling or world, or where the characters feel like family. And then they'll have one thing I don't like or not stick the ending, or I read a paragraph by someone like Josephine Tey at her best and be reminded how their wordsmithing isn't that.

I guess I could start using great for things I'd give an 8/10 instead of 10/10. Maybe easier to just not worry about it.

I would suggest that anything that you read that makes your "spirit soar" has qualities so far beyond "wordsmithing" that the comparison and categorization are meaningless.