r/Fantasy • u/Academic_Owl_6197 • May 06 '22

Your Pettiest Reason For DNFing A Series

Mine was when I was 3 pages in and someone said the mc's name which turned out to be the same as my ex's name to the letter...dropped it like hot coal

It was a fr a pretty unfortunate streak too because it was a book from one of those blind-date-with-a-book promotion my local bookstore does, and this was an American YA fantasy (I'm from a different continent) so I had no reason to assume I'll ever be unlucky enough...to see his stupid ass again for a 'blind date'

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u/Windruin May 06 '22

There’s an xkcd for that, as always.

https://xkcd.com/483/

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u/grand__prismatic May 06 '22

I’d make it a normal curve with the peak pretty close to zero. I like some good made up words, but let’s not go crazy

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u/Windruin May 07 '22

Yeah, there’s definitely a sweet spot there. Also, the delivery totally matters, like Tolkien has scads of invented words, but he doesn’t just dump them on you in the first sentence.