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Jul. 2nd, 2011 07:39 pmThe problem with reading so much excellent longfic is that you get conditioned to being able to applaud the author. I've read this issue from the other side (and no doubt better argued) by jedusaur, about fic writing providing gratification. (also hers had links to fascinating wiki entries) I think anyone that writes fic can agree with this, I can't think of anyone that doesn't go \o/FUCK YEAH COMMENTS\o/ after working on something forever.
But what didn't come up, what didn't even occur to me until now is the situation from the other direction. I'm in the middle of reading a book. It is fucking amazing. Maybe not a New York bestseller for all the ultra-intelligent people of the world. But it's by authors I love, and it gave me that feeling. You know, that ~feeling~. It doesn't come with every book. But occasionally you get that book that's like FUCK YEAH, THIS IS WHY READING EXISTS AS A HUMAN POSSIBILITY. Those books that make you feel happy to be alive, just so you can read more of it. Those books that have you re-reading each paragraph twice before moving to the next whereas normally you finish a book in a hour. Those books that you read for hours straight and when you finally put it down you've been grinning the entire time without realising and your face hurts. Since half my flist is HP fandom I know you understand. And really, everyone on LJ is a reader.
It is a awesome book AND I WANT TO TELL THE AUTHORS. But how? A letter/email that the publishing house gets instead of the author? A smily face on twitter, if they happen to have one? I WANT TO WAX ELOQUENT. I tend to comment on each chapter of a big bang, c&p lines that I love and just flail in general. I want to rant for half an hour on how brilliant this anthology is. But I can't. Oh, if only you were a fic.
But what didn't come up, what didn't even occur to me until now is the situation from the other direction. I'm in the middle of reading a book. It is fucking amazing. Maybe not a New York bestseller for all the ultra-intelligent people of the world. But it's by authors I love, and it gave me that feeling. You know, that ~feeling~. It doesn't come with every book. But occasionally you get that book that's like FUCK YEAH, THIS IS WHY READING EXISTS AS A HUMAN POSSIBILITY. Those books that make you feel happy to be alive, just so you can read more of it. Those books that have you re-reading each paragraph twice before moving to the next whereas normally you finish a book in a hour. Those books that you read for hours straight and when you finally put it down you've been grinning the entire time without realising and your face hurts. Since half my flist is HP fandom I know you understand. And really, everyone on LJ is a reader.
It is a awesome book AND I WANT TO TELL THE AUTHORS. But how? A letter/email that the publishing house gets instead of the author? A smily face on twitter, if they happen to have one? I WANT TO WAX ELOQUENT. I tend to comment on each chapter of a big bang, c&p lines that I love and just flail in general. I want to rant for half an hour on how brilliant this anthology is. But I can't. Oh, if only you were a fic.