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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 1869279" data-attributes="member: 307">No, it's not, stating that the analogy doesn't make sense isn't bruqe, it's truthful.And you miss the essential reason that the book-chair analogy doesn't make sense by devolving into a side discussion about utilitarian items vs. entertainment. You see, the distinction doesn't fall along the lines of utilitatiran vs. entertainment, but along a more fundamental distinction: chairs generally do not develop over time.You see, when you sit in a chair, you get a good idea of how comfortable it will be for the forseeable future. Sure, it might break in some, and change a little, but the fundamental nature of the chair will not change significantly after your first use of it. A book, on the other hand (and any other sequential media), needs to be moved through to evaluate. What happens in the next twenty pages may radically alter the last twenty, and may change you opinion tremendously.No, you are saying "I read a tiny portion and decided it was bad, but I don't really know what I'm talking about because I didn't read through the book". Its an opinion, but it is an uninformed and unuseful opinion.The problem is that we aren't talking about an hour long television series. We are talking about something more along the lines of an entire series. To use the Covenant books as an example, they extend over just more than 3,000 pages. To say that the books are bad after reading the first 100 pages is tantamount to saying that Babylon 5 or Farscape are bad television series because you didn't like the pilot episodes. I don't think anyone would take seriously anyone who evaluated those television series' and attempted to make a pronouncement on their quality after such a short viewing, but you seem to think it reasonable for someone to make a similar judgment regarding a series of books after an even smaller sliver of knowledge.No, I'm requiring a certain level of knowledge as a requirement before your opinion holds water. Saying "these books are bad" after reading through 3.33% of the text makes your opinion not worth bothering with.</blockquote>

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