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So many... In different ways, but the one that changed me the most profoundly was "The mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I read it as a depressed 15yr
by kruffalon 9mo ago
So many... In different ways, but the one that changed me the most profoundly was "The mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
I read it as a depressed 15yr old, in a time when I read everything I could get my hands on. From cover to cover. Often doing nothing else but going to the bathroom, eating and sleeping from exhaustion once I started a book until it was finished.
This book was so bad that I gave myself rules so that I wouldn't waste another 900 pages of reading on something so utterly uninteresting.
It made me suspicious of text and stories in a way that nothing else has.
I'm still grateful for having read it, it did teach me something.
Thank you for reminding me <3
- SomeHacker44 9mo agoWhat are the rules? What did it teach you?
- kruffalon 9mo agoThey have evolved to the general idea that it is always OK to just walk away :) They started as: Books have to something interesting every 50 pages. And with interesting meaning something I want to know more about. Pretty low bar!