Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 04 May 2016 - 03:24 PM, said:
Game of Thrones' use of old time words and spellings bugs me too. Luckily my brain always has this "take in context" thing going on in my brain so for some reason most books that use "wrong" spellings of words and such don't bother me to much (for instance I am the only person I know who enjoyed reading the Scarlet Letter or Count of Monte ******).
It is all subjective though. Most people I have met praise Hunger Games as being one of the best written novels and greatest pieces of literature to come out this decade. I personally find it to be nothing but drivel lol. Granted I have very unorthodox tastes... I mean I liked the Scarlet Letter and own two copies of it and have a copy of the Lord of the Rings in every room in my apartment.
Tolkien's diction or reputation as a blowhard who never met 50 pages of exposition he could say no to never bothered me. Some of the songs in his stories are irritating because its impossible to get the cadence or tune from the text alone. I liked the way reading LOTR made it feel like you travelled somewhere and had taken a trip.
Classic books like The Count of Monte ****** are awesome if you can get past the first 40 or so pages which tend to be extremely boring. Hunger Games, Divergent and The Force Awakens are overrated a bit because they portray female characters who break the damsel in distress mold.