What's wrong with quality, high standards, and so on? With wanting to read stuff worth reading, that draws you in, makes you want to figure out the plot, understand the characters and people, und so weiter? There's a reason why Little Women is still in print, why Kim is the best boy's adventure story ever written, huzoor, why audiences still turn out to see Antigone, why La ci darem la mano still pulls at the heart strings after a quarter of a millennium.
I can still recall the excitement I felt when I encountered The Lord of the Rings for the first time; and the horror I felt that I could only take out one volume a week from the library. There's good stuff being written now, but you have to wad through a huge bog to find stuff that generates the kind of excitement that LoTR created in my seventeen-year-old mind.
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Date: 2009-08-16 12:53 am (UTC)I can still recall the excitement I felt when I encountered The Lord of the Rings for the first time; and the horror I felt that I could only take out one volume a week from the library. There's good stuff being written now, but you have to wad through a huge bog to find stuff that generates the kind of excitement that LoTR created in my seventeen-year-old mind.