For those in this thread that enjoyed reading Dan Brown novels:
Don't give random people on the internet the power to take away joys of your past.
This is something I see come up a lot on the Internet. It begins with a critique of something (sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek) and almost immediately develops into OTHER people being criticized for enjoying something that someone else thinks is bad, often through the mechanism of the "this is terrible" people drowning out the "but I like this" people by a factor of 10-to-1, because it's the Internet.
Art is subjective. People consume it for different reasons, at different times, with different expectations and different perspectives. People also LOOK for different things in art (some people like themes, some people like history, some people like aesthetics, some people like fun, etc.) - and they look for different things in every piece of art they consume.
I've never read a Dan Brown novel. Maybe I'll like them, maybe I won't. But lucky for me it's going to be easy to go in with a clean slate and form my own -- oh wait.
> going to be easy to go in with a clean slate and form my own -- oh wait
Yeah, this post was kind of a "can't unsee" for me and totally ruined those books. Although, maybe it was just a decade of reading better books that did it.
Don't give random people on the internet the power to take away joys of your past.
This is something I see come up a lot on the Internet. It begins with a critique of something (sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek) and almost immediately develops into OTHER people being criticized for enjoying something that someone else thinks is bad, often through the mechanism of the "this is terrible" people drowning out the "but I like this" people by a factor of 10-to-1, because it's the Internet.
Art is subjective. People consume it for different reasons, at different times, with different expectations and different perspectives. People also LOOK for different things in art (some people like themes, some people like history, some people like aesthetics, some people like fun, etc.) - and they look for different things in every piece of art they consume.
I've never read a Dan Brown novel. Maybe I'll like them, maybe I won't. But lucky for me it's going to be easy to go in with a clean slate and form my own -- oh wait.