One of my main problems with BFFs is that I am supremely lazy, and I don't want to have to wade through a ton of pages before the story gets good. Some BFFs are good and manage to entrance me by the first chapters, and others I've had friends standing over me and telling me, no worries! It gets good by the second book! which isn't quite as encouraging as one would hope. Also, I hate waiting, and I always manage to forget what's happened in the previous books by the time the next one comes out. And after a while, there is a point in which I will not reread six books to get to the new one.
But then again, George R. R. Martin's BFF has still managed to suck me in ^_^.
I think it is hard to compare to a BFF sometimes though. Dunnett's Lymond chronicles aren't really a BFF, but the sheer amount of pages and the time that it takes me to get through them means that I have lived in that world a much longer time than in the worlds of shorter books. And there is that much more room for character development and background history, if the writer is a good one. I think I may have higher expecations of BFFs -- I don't want to read one unless it's really good, because of the time investment, but the really good ones are so very worth it.
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Date: 2004-11-21 07:42 pm (UTC)But then again, George R. R. Martin's BFF has still managed to suck me in ^_^.
I think it is hard to compare to a BFF sometimes though. Dunnett's Lymond chronicles aren't really a BFF, but the sheer amount of pages and the time that it takes me to get through them means that I have lived in that world a much longer time than in the worlds of shorter books. And there is that much more room for character development and background history, if the writer is a good one. I think I may have higher expecations of BFFs -- I don't want to read one unless it's really good, because of the time investment, but the really good ones are so very worth it.