You have it backwards, the universe and stories are great, but his prose is terrible. Try reading The Silmarillion sometime. It contains some of the worst writing I've ever seen, but once you get past that, it also contains some incredible stories. He does write really good alliterative poetry, but he never finished any of his attempts at epic poetry, which is a real shame -- he had several attempts at both The Lay of Leithian and the Narn i Hin Hurin, better known as the tale of Beren and Luthien and the Children of Hurin, respectively. They were great, but as I said earlier, he never finished any of them.tellmeimaninja said:
I'm aware of that, since I looked up the metacritic score, though last time I checked Halo has a better one; better than HL2 as well.TomLikesGuitar said:
My biggest issue is that they can get away with having sub-par plots so long as they say something interesting about something. One of the biggest examples contradicting my point is Candide, by Voltaire. It makes an obvious point, has a hilarious plot, and is short and sweet. I feel Candide embodies what books of literary merit should be. Also, The Stranger did a similar job, albeit with a far less interesting plot.M Rotter said:
Okay yeah there's one moment at the end where it stocks you up on ammo because your going to be going through a very long passage where you'll find literally no ammo at all and will have to fend off wave after wave after wave of fucking splicers because the stupid ***** you're supposed to be protecting is to busy cannabalizing a corpse to keep moving. Why my character didn't just carry the little dipshit all the way will always be mystery. And as I've corrected myself before now, yes hacking is easy, unless the board sets itself up to be unwinnable, and you won't know if it is until you start hacking.Glademaster said:
Don't bother--and again, this is coming from someone who's nuts enough about Shakespeare to get two degrees in the subject and is working on a third.[footnote]The third one's a little tangentially related, but still...[/footnote] It's very much a C-list play of his. You'd be better off reading something like Titus Andronicus, which is also considered a lesser play of his, but has murder, adultery, rape, dismemberment, and cannibalism. It's good clean family fun.SquirrelPants said:
Come now at least give me some credit... I DO realize that courting was quite different and is easy to see as ridiculous from the modern viewpoint, (dowerys, bethrothment, and such) but I must stand by my view point that even some characters in the play itself have. The view that Romeo and Juliet's relationship finds more foundation in lust than love. In the beginning of the story Romeo was in love with Rosaline and you know why he fell so hard for Juliet? Rosaline wanted to remain celebate! Romeo was distraught over this one little detail and became depressed over it, and his depression (Over Rosaline not putting out) is what led him to be so willing to sneak into the Capulet party where he met (and fell in "love" with) Juliet. If one observes this it becomes obious that Romeo is as fickle as the wind and thinking with the wrong head.Archangel357 said:
Ever listen to Animals? It came between Wish You Were Here and The Wall, so it's in that time period. It also sounds a lot like The Wall. Just out of curiosity.Ethylene Glycol said:
