Always felt strongly if an author puts a song in a novel they should be obligated to also release a soundtrack or sheet music.
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Thomas Pynchon is the worst.
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Pynchon’s sings put you in a mood if you sing them out loud and try and guess the tune. They’re a staging area for the next plot development.
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Agreed - and I usually skip the poems / songs. I enjoy poetry, but it requires a different mindset, and I don't enjoy switching from my reading a novel mode to an appreciating the embedded poetry mode.
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Love the poems in LOTR.
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Rothfuss embeds good poetry. "How odd to watch a mortal kindle Then to dwindle day by day. Knowing their bright souls are tinder And the wind will have its way. Would I could my own fire lend. What does your flickering portend?"
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I try to sing all the songs in the Hobbit, sorta becomes comic relief after a while...
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have never agreed with anyone this hard before
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Back when I read LOTR as a youngen (12 y/o maybe?), the songs really worked for me! They were part of the whole tapestry of the world, like every other detail. ... I miss that old imagination these days.
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It's even worse when I can't read the original language because translating poetry is an entirely different skill than translating prose, so I know the translator will most likely butcher either the poem or everything else.
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