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What’s something you couldn’t get into, but feel like you should? (kbin.social)
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What’s something that you feel like you should like,, but for some reason can’t get into, no matter how many chances you give it?

For me, it’s The Three Body Problem. It should be right up my alley from everything I’ve heard about it (especially the second book, which looks at the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter!), but for the life of me, I can’t get past the first chapter at all. I even tried reading it in another language to see if it was the translation that kept me from getting into it, and nope.

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[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I grew up w/out a tv at home for most of my life--but Star Wars was also released a bit before I was born, and the prequels were released right as I hit adulthood, so I just missed being "the right age" for it completely.

It has been interesting encountering younger folk where the prequels were their childhood--because it's their beloved childhood, they have a completely different view of it than what was going on amongst grown SFF fans when the prequels originally aired. (And I'm not bashing beloved childhoods; it makes me thoughtful about my own childhood favorites.)

I agree that it has a lot of elements that SHOULD make me love it. But I actually encountered FIRST (due to no TV at home and friends not exposing it to me outside the home) the influences in literature that Star Wars arose out of. I read the book Dune before I saw Star Wars, and I read plenty of SFF action/adventure before I saw Star Wars. So even when I finally did see Star Wars--I had already been exposed to the substratum that it arose out of, so it didn't hit me as "unique".