Over Hype Ruining Your Enjoyment from a Book

Yeah there are just many times where people really swear up and down about the greatness of a book. And in many cases, they can be rather right to say the very least. And then there are just really also many times where no matter how good the book is, it will never be rather up to the hype that really other people have really given them. I think that just falling into a book blindly is really just the best way. If the book rules or is bad, or is just somewhere in the middle, at least there are no people who are rather just feeding opinions right into. Regardless of how much you like to really keep an open mind, it really influences, at least it can at times. Granted a good book can really overcome a lot of the aversion I think. A really good book.

Well I have no doubt that people who swear up and down that a book is greatness do genuinely enjoy the book they're hyping about, but my tastes don't always run with the crowd, you know? And since my tastes are different, I often expect to enjoy the book less than they did. Of course I can see someone who thinks that what everybody else likes is something they'll like being disappointed, but that's not me. I much prefer to plunge ahead blindly.

Indeed and if I learned one thing about things that are popular, is popularity is rather an indicatively of quality to begin with. I mean there have been things where have been hyped, where my tastes were not really good. Now granted, those things were not really necessarily bad. It was just one of those things where it was merely okay. Books(and movies and everything else) are best enjoyed without any preconceptions whether good or bad in the end.

You never really know until you pick up the book and actually fall right into it. However, there are times where you can't help but have certain expectations. In another time before the Internet, it wouldn't be such but now, you would have to be very creative to be able to avoid a lot of the talk. It can be done for some books. Yes, indeed, there are some best sellers that are really good hype jobs. If someone buys a book and then doesn't finish it because they don't like it, that sell still counts towards a best seller list after all. Of course, a book that doesn't connect with a lot of people is going to set an author back, so hopefully that book made a lot where the author can be set up for a while.

Indeed in the end, hype can really influence us in good ways or bad ways. I think that there are times where I would have really liked a book just a little bit more had I not have it shoved down my throat for months before I got around reading it. And yet other times, there was an author who put together such a good story, that it really still worked. Of course, in the end, there are times where everyone is going to have their own tastes a lot of the time. Obscurity and small fandoms do sometimes help the quality of the book. As the larger fandoms of books tend to have some fans that go right into the area of being obnoxious to the point where they overhype their books and make you wonder whether or not you are going to really like it.