Welcome to my perfumed garden

I'll stand up and admit it - I'm easily intimidated when it comes to discussing literature (hangover from school days when I wasn't considered intelligent enough / good enough at English to do eng. lit at O'level despite it being the one subject I would have given my arms, hands, and eyes to do).

Personally, I hate any sort of writing where the style of the writing is the first and last thing that hits me when reading a story (whether it be FF or pro).(I may be being harsh but it kinda strikes me that the person is going look at me, I can do this shiny sort of wrting, I'm a Writer!) Ist person obviously does this straight away, but then that's uncultured me. I actually read a Robin Hobbs a few months back- didn't realise before I bought it 1p is the pov she uses always. Until the story began to wind itself up, I found it a slog but once the story got going, then it was enjoyable enough. There are other styles that bug me more though (over descriptive, use of present tense). If a story is good enough then I'll read it - but it needs more to drag me in and keep me in. And yeah never, ever tried to write in it!