Author Habits That Annoy You

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I remember being shattered when I finally saw illustrations of Tolkien's hobbits.

Hmm. To me, only the Rankin-Bass version had sufficiently hairy feet. Not the Hildebrandt paintings. Certainly not Bakshi's version (not that he got any damn thing right*). Not the few clips and stills I've seen of Peter Jackson's movies.

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* Among other things Bakshi got profoundly wrong, Reginald Pikedevant could get some mileage out of "Just xerograph your reference films and call it rotoscoping"!)

 

[daveyjones]

I don't want to read extended internal monologues of the main characters.

you've just described what the novel is, as a medium of literature.