Quote:
Originally posted by urgeok
i read the 1st 3 or 4 Dune novels .. but found after that they were becoming so bizarre i couldnt follow them anymore ..
It's a weird feeling - admitting something is going over your head but i have to do it.
I respect the man's vision ... he is a genius and a visionary, and i think he's writing how HE thinks .. but it's a much more complex thought process than i can follow.
or at least it's more work than i'm willing to put into leisure reading..
|
i feel that way about Philip K Dick - great ideas but the novels always leave me totally baffled (perhaps less genius and more madness)
and, as a 29 year old, I agree with both of you about the 'targetting' - I find I can barely read horror fiction without starting to giggle or roll my eyes. my reading tastes have tended more and more towards the literary - though there are occasional cross-overs with horror.
i also find i tend to read more nonfiction than i used to - histories, biographies. i've actually found some good books about the history of horror films so that's probably more what i read now than actual 'horror books.' there was a cool book called The Monster Show that was mainly about the early days of horror that was very interesting, and a book called Projected Fears that was about the 'ten most important horror films in american history' that was interesting and pretty smart.
but as for the average 'on the shelf' horror novel, most of them leave me cold