Heh heh heh - I've been reading The Dark is Rising to my boys as one of our annual Christmas books since they were born. IT'S MAGIC. YOU HAVE TO FEEL IT!
I'm one of those rather rare adult readers who is 100% gullible - I make no judgments about what I'm reading, it all goes straight in. I won't even notice how dreadful the prose is, or how unlikely the plot is - as long as the characters feel deliciously complexly human or the world-building feels like there was an entire culture out there that someone really *knew*......I won't have any criticisms till I'm done, at least :D OTOH a book that has 2D characters or terrible world building, and I won't be able to wade through it even if it's a multiple-award winner, so there's that too :D An awful lot of mid-century writing falls into that category....
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I'm one of those rather rare adult readers who is 100% gullible - I make no judgments about what I'm reading, it all goes straight in. I won't even notice how dreadful the prose is, or how unlikely the plot is - as long as the characters feel deliciously complexly human or the world-building feels like there was an entire culture out there that someone really *knew*......I won't have any criticisms till I'm done, at least :D OTOH a book that has 2D characters or terrible world building, and I won't be able to wade through it even if it's a multiple-award winner, so there's that too :D An awful lot of mid-century writing falls into that category....