BookTube has a Classics Problem, plus some Star Wars day nonsense
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
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www.theguardian.com/books/boo...
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Interesting discussion. For me saying something is "difficult" is the biggest disservice to a book. I also thinks people read for many reasons and fun is just one of the reasons.
If you do a part 2 to this I'd love to discuss all this with you.
Yes i agree about the difficult thing, you're right about the many reasons I think I vagully brushed over that and it deserves more insight. I'd love to continue the discussion I'll email you and see if we can organise something if you're up for it.
@@backawayfromthedonkey I’d love to see the two of you discuss this 👌
@@backawayfromthedonkey I am up for it.
Yes makes perfectly sense. Read what you like.
So war and piece is a real chunker. Wasn’t it first published in parts in a magazine? I find I have a bit of a problem with these types of books. I’m currently listening to the mysteries of London which is also over 1000 pages. I loved the first half but I find myself struggling with it after 60%. I just stopped caring about the characters. There are so many of them. I think it’s the problem that this is just not one story. It’s a lot of stories about different people that just happen to have a connection. I think it’s because it’s written episode after episode and not having any idea how the story is going to end.
There's a lot of Science Fiction books from the 50s and 60s that are fix ups from being published episodically in magazines. The Magazines were normally a main source of income for the writers which is why they wrote so much for this market. At their best they can work as novels well but you do sometimes get them that as you say don't feel much of a connection to easch other.
I can say that the prose in Malazan is not challenging. I have really enjoyed the classics I’ve read but I certainly would not read any that I was not interested in 🤷🏻♂️
What I've heard about Malazan is that it's a difficult read because the Narrative doesn't explain much from the get go. I've heard people go on about this like Malazan was the first books to ever do something like this.
@@backawayfromthedonkey Right. It just gives the reader vast amounts of information to remember that will be explained 2/3 thousand pages down the line. It is structured more akin to epic science fiction than it is fantasy. Like if they decided Dune would be 12,000 pages long 🤷🏻♂️