A week ago, my best friend and I went to a second-hand store. I checked out the kids' book section, and found a Hannah montana novelization. They'd taken an episode of an already bad show and turned it into a book. The episode wasn't that great as it was, and with with the visual aspect gone it just didn't work at all. Seeing somebody fall onto the floor is pretty funny, but reading that he did isn't funny at all. And the other jokes are dependent on the delivery. Without the actors to improve them through funny delivery, they fall flatter than a pancake dropped from a skyscraper.
Here's my point: I'm pretty sure that nobody that read that book actually thought it was all that great. They just read it because they like Hannah Montana. And something else that I don't think people actually enjoy all that much are certain works of Christian fiction. I read reviews of that kind of stuff pretty often on Amazon, and the feeling I get pretty often is that the reviewer liked the fact that the movie/novel in question was of a Christian nature way more than s/he liked the actual work. Like, the acting might not be top-notch, but at least the movie teaches Christian values. Or there's a novel with a couple that might not be that interesting to read about, but at least they don't do the horizontal tango until the ring's on the finger. In short, the audience feel they have a duty to like the book/movie in order to be good Christians, even though it's a piece of ****.
So have you ever encountered a book or novel or comic or whatever that you just can't imagine people actually liked, but had some other reason to get into, like the examples above?
And please, don't mention classic works of literature or classic movies and so on. This is for when people who watch/read something clearly don't actually enjoy it that much, and if something's a classic then it's pretty clear a lot of people do like it. So do not bring up that book you had to read in high school.
Here's my point: I'm pretty sure that nobody that read that book actually thought it was all that great. They just read it because they like Hannah Montana. And something else that I don't think people actually enjoy all that much are certain works of Christian fiction. I read reviews of that kind of stuff pretty often on Amazon, and the feeling I get pretty often is that the reviewer liked the fact that the movie/novel in question was of a Christian nature way more than s/he liked the actual work. Like, the acting might not be top-notch, but at least the movie teaches Christian values. Or there's a novel with a couple that might not be that interesting to read about, but at least they don't do the horizontal tango until the ring's on the finger. In short, the audience feel they have a duty to like the book/movie in order to be good Christians, even though it's a piece of ****.
So have you ever encountered a book or novel or comic or whatever that you just can't imagine people actually liked, but had some other reason to get into, like the examples above?
And please, don't mention classic works of literature or classic movies and so on. This is for when people who watch/read something clearly don't actually enjoy it that much, and if something's a classic then it's pretty clear a lot of people do like it. So do not bring up that book you had to read in high school.
