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JohnBem
Posted 2016-07-24 11:32 AM (#14070 - in reply to #14000)
Subject: Re: The TIE-IN Fighter Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		I believe I understand where you're coming from, DrNefario. I sometimes get qualms as I'm reading a D&D or Star Trek or Star Wars book: "Why am I wasting my finite time on this light stuff when I could be digging into some true classics, some deeper literature?" But it doesn't bother me too much, because I like pulp, I like 'literary comfort food', and I do try to balance my light reading with works of more substance. Shortly before I joined WWE, I read for the first time the classic D&D Drangonlance Chronicles trilogy by Weiss and Hickman. The writing wasn't great, but I gave the books 4-star ratings anyway because of the nostalgia I felt for the bygone days when I was still playing D&D and because ultimately I enjoyed the books because of the fun and passion that shined through the prose, despite certain limitations of the prose itself.

Sometimes I get down on tie-in fiction. In certain moods, I can't deal with tie-in fiction if it's not written well. (Again before joining WWE, I abandoned some Battlestar Galactica (reboot) novels I had been looking forward to.) In other moods, nostalgic kicks in and I find myself being a lot more forgiving of the flaws in a piece of tie-in fiction because of personal connections with and nostalgia I feel for the franchise.

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