Since you disliked it so much, I am sorry to have recommended it to you, but I appreciate your candid responses. I hope it's okay for me to respond with equal candor.
I'm sorry if my comment offended you in any way. I thought the point of talking about the read stories is to say if one liked them or not and why is that so. I tried my best to pinpoint the things that I'm not fond of in this story and I was hoping I didn't do it in an offending way.
Still, as I said, it was interesting to me to re-read the story and so I am glad you recommended it to me. Trust me, if I had truly hated it, I simply would stop reading and that certainly was not the case.
She is a realistic writer. eliade spends a lot of time carefully filling in the blanks in "Sleepless," getting us into the heads of the characters.
As I said, I'm not a fan of overly realistic way of writing. And while I appreciate the thoroughness with which she retells the episode, I honestly have to say I haven't read many stories attempting this with such detail and focus, it's still her interpretation of the episodes and I for one don't have to (and don't) agree with all of it. Yes, it's really well done how she gets into the heads of the characters, but since her look at them is different than mine, she finds in their heads completely different things and motives than I would've. It's not a bad thing, obviously, once again, I don't consider this to be a bad story. Just one that does not agree with my tastes in stories, that's all. (Probably some weight in this also has a fact that I'm not overly fond of re-telling episodes, but I've read stories that I loved doing just that, so it's not like I can't be persuaded if the fic hits all my other buttons.)
However, I don't think it's her style (her sentences, story structure and vocabulary) that you're objecting to so much as her content. When you refer to the interactions that you find crude and violent, you aren't specific but since most of their non sex scenes are centered around solving the case and so much of that dialog is taken straight from the episode itself, I am assuming you must mean the sex scenes. This is a matter of taste, so there isn't much I can say to defend them. If it's not the sex scenes, I'm at a loss. You'll have to give examples.
First of all: It's not about the sex scenes. While again, they're not written like I usually love to read them (there's too many of them for me at least, I get bored if there's too many, and they're too emotionless and 'right down to it' for me to like them), they're by far not off putting. And I have to say that Mulder talking about hamster's during sex is one of my favourite sex-scene-dialouges ever.
Second of all: I do actually mean both content and the actual writing style.
Yes, I'm not fond of plot developing into Mulder and Krycek as fuck buddies. I don't find it convincing in this story. And while I love a well written story about Alex harboring deeper feelings for Mulder and not being only driven by lust, I've read several stories, where lust is all they have in common and I still found them more captivating than the relation they have in this story. While it's also lust here, it seems almost clinical at places. Boys trying to up themselves, 'you tease me in a car, I tease you on a crime scene'.
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I'm sorry if my comment offended you in any way. I thought the point of talking about the read stories is to say if one liked them or not and why is that so. I tried my best to pinpoint the things that I'm not fond of in this story and I was hoping I didn't do it in an offending way.
Still, as I said, it was interesting to me to re-read the story and so I am glad you recommended it to me. Trust me, if I had truly hated it, I simply would stop reading and that certainly was not the case.
She is a realistic writer.
As I said, I'm not a fan of overly realistic way of writing. And while I appreciate the thoroughness with which she retells the episode, I honestly have to say I haven't read many stories attempting this with such detail and focus, it's still her interpretation of the episodes and I for one don't have to (and don't) agree with all of it. Yes, it's really well done how she gets into the heads of the characters, but since her look at them is different than mine, she finds in their heads completely different things and motives than I would've. It's not a bad thing, obviously, once again, I don't consider this to be a bad story. Just one that does not agree with my tastes in stories, that's all. (Probably some weight in this also has a fact that I'm not overly fond of re-telling episodes, but I've read stories that I loved doing just that, so it's not like I can't be persuaded if the fic hits all my other buttons.)
However, I don't think it's her style (her sentences, story structure and vocabulary) that you're objecting to so much as her content. When you refer to the interactions that you find crude and violent, you aren't specific but since most of their non sex scenes are centered around solving the case and so much of that dialog is taken straight from the episode itself, I am assuming you must mean the sex scenes. This is a matter of taste, so there isn't much I can say to defend them. If it's not the sex scenes, I'm at a loss. You'll have to give examples.
First of all: It's not about the sex scenes. While again, they're not written like I usually love to read them (there's too many of them for me at least, I get bored if there's too many, and they're too emotionless and 'right down to it' for me to like them), they're by far not off putting. And I have to say that Mulder talking about hamster's during sex is one of my favourite sex-scene-dialouges ever.
Second of all: I do actually mean both content and the actual writing style.
Yes, I'm not fond of plot developing into Mulder and Krycek as fuck buddies. I don't find it convincing in this story. And while I love a well written story about Alex harboring deeper feelings for Mulder and not being only driven by lust, I've read several stories, where lust is all they have in common and I still found them more captivating than the relation they have in this story. While it's also lust here, it seems almost clinical at places. Boys trying to up themselves, 'you tease me in a car, I tease you on a crime scene'.