’ve been trying to read a variety of books as of late, most of which I’m not getting past the first chapter because of how its written. Didn’t use to in the past get so picky on the writing style but I sure have as of late. Though ok most of the ones I stop reading after the first chapters are written as this happened then this and this and so on and so forth, enough to drive me crazy. No character development no nothing really just feels like a timeline with slight description bleh.
Strange thing is some of the classics I have been reading have made me cringe as well. I recently read
Bram Stoker’s Dracula and ok I really did not like it at all. By the end of the book I was hoping that Van Helsing was going to die because every speech he did got more and more annoying. Never read a book that spoke of man brains and child brains and what not. Especially when he keeps saying Dracula has child brains while they had man brains. And then when saying that they kept asking why is one of the people in their group growing so pale and weak? Apparently man’s brains made them oblivious to the obvious. Only part I liked about the book was the style of writing it was very unique, all through journals and newspaper articles and what not.
Now the book I am reading now
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass I am enjoying more. Frederick Douglass was a former slave and this is his biography of growing up as a salve and I think deals with his treatment after gaining his freedom. Not sure about that part since I have gotten that far.
thinking this is why I kind of stopped roleplaying. I'm getting a bit picky on the books I'm reading and its writing that its translating to my own stuff... oh well.