03-17-2021, 11:47 AM | #31 |
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Reminds me of Lord of the Rings where they hardly ever ate. Stuff going in and stuff coming out seems to be overlooked in a lot of books.
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03-17-2021, 11:53 AM | #32 |
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I already used this one in another thread but one that bugs me is people writing letters were they retell conversations exactly, and not short ones either. Or just very detailed letters. Even back when people used a pen and paper letters were fairly brief.
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03-17-2021, 11:59 AM | #33 | |
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I was remembering some past thread where we discussed errors in books and remembering that it eventually turned into a long, detailed discussion of guns, types of guns, and all the things authors get wrong about guns..... didn't want a repeat of that! Agree with you on the toilet factor. I don't need to know every time the characters take a potty break. But I guess this brings up a related topic - what things are common in your real life that you hardly ever see in fiction? |
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Wouldn't want to live on a steady diet of it, or anything, But I'm OK with a bit of moral ambiguity/inversion in my fiction from time to time.
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Moral ambiguity and morally grey characters are perfectly fine. I meant the kind of fiction where undiluted evil wins, and not in the tongue-in-cheek sense. Yes, I know such fiction exists and people read it, but frankly I cannot imagine why one would want to constantly consume such depressing stuff.
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I'm not actually sure pure evil as such even exists. As you say, it's a matter of perspective. But still, deliberately hurting/destroying others just for one's own enjoyment presumably comes close (I don't mean consensual sadomasochism here ). I wouldn't want to read about a character like that winning, unless he/she has some redeeming qualities. But then this hypothetical character wouldn't be pure evil. |
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I've read a couple of books where someone has had violet eyes. If I saw someone with violet eyes that would be freaky. I think it's only been British authors.
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True. Most of the books were more about the need for a balance between good and evil. There there have been several stories which had protagonists who would qualify as pure evil. One that stands out is Eric Frank Russell's The Displaced Person. For most people, the person the protagonist meets has to be purely evil though he regards himself as a failed revolutionary.
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Another eye color I've seen described in books but never seen in real life is dark blue. I've seen people IRL with a variety of shades of blue, such as gray-blue, pale blue, and even one person with an almost startling aqua/turquoise color. But none of those were dark. The only dark eyes I've seen in real life are brown. |
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