EvaUnit02 wrote:grim_tales wrote:Though if you havent read it how do you know its hackneyed shit?
The sheer overflowing number of cynical opinions saying that it's more-or-less hackneyed shit.
Maybe it's those kind of reviewers who are regular readers, and now feel 'less special' or whatever cause everyone else is reading that book. Plus perhaps they hope to get other people to read the (in their minds) even better books around...
Just like we all scoff at people saying Chuck Norris was great in Walker; Texas Ranger, or at people who claim Bruce Lee made the bast martial arts movies.
Either way, for some reading is very very special, but for most of us it's just a form of leisure, a form of entertainment. Dan Brown has apparently written a book that somehow connects with the masses, and has gotten them to read. These people all have a good time reading it, so obviously it can't be all bad.
You ofcourse also have the literary DICKS that only swear by 14th century poetry written by a left-handed budhist monk who ahd the words whispered to him by the spirit of a drunken lama or whatever. We call those people pretentious bastards.
Here in Holland we have a couple of writers who seemingly have high respect by some reviewers. Yet when I read their work, They take pages in describing the simplest of simple thing, the story is often uninteresting, but gets high points for being 'personal, emotional', whatever...
It's just a crappy book and a crappy writer, but because they act all pretentious and 'high and mighty', other people are somehow really impressed by them. It's like a guy throwing cow-shit at a canvas, and calling it 'art' (true story), and people seemingly just 'accept' that as it's original and weird.
Anyway, in short: just read and watch and listen whatever you want. It's your life.
Just kidding... I just haven't. Not sure why. I know alot of people have enoyed reading the book, so I dont see why others would then go and laugh at those people. To each their own.
