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JohnBem
Posted 2016-10-29 8:57 PM (#14514 - in reply to #11521)
Subject: Re: The TIE-IN Fighter Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		Earlier today I finished Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David. Normally, I like David's Star Trek novels, but I didn't find much at all to like in this one. This is my second two-star book in a row (the first was a disappointing Star Wars novel). I gave both of these two stars because at least there were a few passages in them that I enjoyed. Because of this challenge, I'm discovering something about how I read tie-in fiction. Normally in the course of any given year, I read a few tie-in novels. Usually I read them as sort of light 'mental palate cleansers' between more substantial, weightier works. Now, as I work toward finishing this challenge by the deadline, I've been reading a number of tie-in novels back-to-back. This more intense concentration of tie-in fiction seems to cause the mediocre writing and substandard plots stand out more. I'm not saying all tie-in fiction is mediocre and substandard, but I'm beginning to think I'm more forgiving of a tie-in novel when I read it between heavier works. Maybe because it's so different from what went before, I'm willing to overlook more flaws. But then reading tie-in fiction back-to-back, if you get a few clunkers in a row, the flaws pile up and become too noticeable to ignore.

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