Satirical comedic writing by and large does not work for me. I don't like The Onion, I don't like the early Discworld books, I don't like Bored of the Rings. Bizarrely, I love satirical comedic films--I will watch Police Squad and the Naked Gun movies happily for hours--but I bounce off it in text like a bouncing thing bouncing off something hard.
Also description. I don't visualize, and so pages of description do nothing for me. I cannot read Janny Wurts, although I thoroughly enjoyed the books she wrote with Raymond Feist (I could, however, tell what parts she wrote). I have never finished The Lord of the Rings because somewhere in the middle of THE TWO TOWERS after the ten thousandth loving description of the ten thousandth blade of grass as they ran or rode or whatever the hell they did through the plains of somewhere, I gave up and never, ever went back.
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Also description. I don't visualize, and so pages of description do nothing for me. I cannot read Janny Wurts, although I thoroughly enjoyed the books she wrote with Raymond Feist (I could, however, tell what parts she wrote). I have never finished The Lord of the Rings because somewhere in the middle of THE TWO TOWERS after the ten thousandth loving description of the ten thousandth blade of grass as they ran or rode or whatever the hell they did through the plains of somewhere, I gave up and never, ever went back.