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The Bad Geek Meme
Apr. 8th, 2005 10:19 amI find most memes a bit tedious, but this one from Jim Henley's site piqued my interest: List five things that people in your circle of friends or peer group are wild about, but you can’t really understand the fuss over.
Remember, I'm not attacking you personally if I don't like the things you like. (Fanboys and fangirls often don't understand this.)
Remember, I'm not attacking you personally if I don't like the things you like. (Fanboys and fangirls often don't understand this.)
- Invader Zim. I found it unpleasant without being funny. I guess it's just me.
- Babylon 5. OK, I understand why people like this, but I watched a couple episodes and couldn't get over the amateurish acting.
- The golden age of SF. A big category, I know, and I'm a big fan of the best pulp fiction. Classic SF prose style is so clunky, though -- at least in what I've read -- that I just can't enjoy the stuff. (For some reason I can tolerate Weird Tales alumnus like Howard and Lovecraft; they may be laughably overwrought, but I find them engaging anyway.)
- The Wheel of Time novels. I read the first 500 pages of the first novel, was told it "started out slow, then got really good after the 1,000 pages," and gave up.
- Fan fiction. Please girls, put down your knives. It isn't the writing that bothers me -- I haven't read much of it -- as much as the motivation of the writers. Why limit yourselves to someone else's characters, someone else's world, when you can create your own? Especially when you can't even publish the stuff. I just don't get it.
