Musing: fic - The reading thereof
Jan. 29th, 2008 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanI was just thinking -- I really don't read much fic any more. If I have a craving, I go and hunt stuff down, and if someone recs something really interesting, I might read it, but posts that come up on my flist from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
getbackers or over_look or even fated_children, I just don't read. And, I confess, I haven't read anything written by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
irishais in ages. >>;;
I think part of that's my tendency not to read anything unfinished. I very, very rarely start buying a trilogy or series until it's finished. The only time I've done otherwise is when I bought the first three books of Sarah Zettel's Arthurian romance series. And I haven't read those yet. Oh, and Garth Nix: I have up to Grim Thursday already despite the series not being finished.
Another part of it is, I guess, that a lot of the stuff I come across just doesn't interest me that much or tends to disappoint me even if it does. Still, I don't like it, 'cause here's me getting a reasonable amount of comments -- usually, one or two per fic post! -- and I don't give anything back to my various fandoms in that way. Most of the fics I come across and like are ones I've hunted down after the fact and I feel shy leaving comments.
I think I'm going to go round and leave comments to any fics I've got bookmarked in my del.icio.us, for a start, and then I think I'll try and set myself some kind of goal of commenting on at least one fic a day. 8D
So! If you have anything you'd really like me to read that you think I skipped, drop me a link (or a couple of links -- not too many >>). Please, though, not anything still in progress. In fact -- it'd be better if it wasn't a chaptered fic. Chaptered fics intimidate me. Long one-shots are a-okay, but nothing with more than, say, two parts.
Preferred reading fandoms: Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII, X, X-2, XII (RW). Kingdom Hearts (I/CoM/II). Robin Hood BBC. The Dark Is Rising. The Fionavar Tapestry. Good Omens. Doctor Who (but not Torchwood, yet). Phoenix Wright. Firefly. Heroes (season one). GetBackers. Gundam Wing (which I never watched, but acquired a huge knowledge of by osmosis).
getbackers or over_look or even fated_children, I just don't read. And, I confess, I haven't read anything written by irishais in ages. >>;;I think part of that's my tendency not to read anything unfinished. I very, very rarely start buying a trilogy or series until it's finished. The only time I've done otherwise is when I bought the first three books of Sarah Zettel's Arthurian romance series. And I haven't read those yet. Oh, and Garth Nix: I have up to Grim Thursday already despite the series not being finished.
Another part of it is, I guess, that a lot of the stuff I come across just doesn't interest me that much or tends to disappoint me even if it does. Still, I don't like it, 'cause here's me getting a reasonable amount of comments -- usually, one or two per fic post! -- and I don't give anything back to my various fandoms in that way. Most of the fics I come across and like are ones I've hunted down after the fact and I feel shy leaving comments.
I think I'm going to go round and leave comments to any fics I've got bookmarked in my del.icio.us, for a start, and then I think I'll try and set myself some kind of goal of commenting on at least one fic a day. 8D
So! If you have anything you'd really like me to read that you think I skipped, drop me a link (or a couple of links -- not too many >>). Please, though, not anything still in progress. In fact -- it'd be better if it wasn't a chaptered fic. Chaptered fics intimidate me. Long one-shots are a-okay, but nothing with more than, say, two parts.
Preferred reading fandoms: Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII, X, X-2, XII (RW). Kingdom Hearts (I/CoM/II). Robin Hood BBC. The Dark Is Rising. The Fionavar Tapestry. Good Omens. Doctor Who (but not Torchwood, yet). Phoenix Wright. Firefly. Heroes (season one). GetBackers. Gundam Wing (which I never watched, but acquired a huge knowledge of by osmosis).
