My answers are a trifle paradoxical, so I figured I'd explain. *g*
I love to read anything once. I love well-researched and detailed descriptions of any subject ... the first time. Subsequently, it becomes "same old, same old".
At this point, I feel like I've read enough detailed infirmary/intubation/post-surgery scenes to last me a lifetime. I'm much more interested in reading about the characters' emotional reactions than the nitty-gritty of what the injured character is going through. Worry and angst and character-bonding doesn't get old for me the way that reading about a gazillion ways of feeding someone ice chips does. For example, I'd rather see a scene with the injured characters' friends playing cards and bickering while waiting for them to come out of recovery than see the same time period from the viewpoint of the injured character waking up from anesthesia, getting sick all over a nurse and having a catheter inserted ... if you know what I mean!
On the other hand, I checked yes to both of the last two because I don't think I've yet read a detailed, well-researched surgery scene, and that sounds interesting. (Field or battlefield surgery especially!) And, while I'd generally prefer NOT to read a story of the cyclical, never-going-anywhere type in which a character gets hurt and hurt again and suffers setbacks and so on and so on and SO ON ... I've been very interested in the all-too-rare stories that address consequences in a way that h/c usually doesn't; I would love to read a story that dealt with a character learning to live with a physical or mental disability (with no magic Ancient tech fixes), and things along those lines.
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Date: 2007-12-02 04:16 am (UTC)I love to read anything once. I love well-researched and detailed descriptions of any subject ... the first time. Subsequently, it becomes "same old, same old".
At this point, I feel like I've read enough detailed infirmary/intubation/post-surgery scenes to last me a lifetime. I'm much more interested in reading about the characters' emotional reactions than the nitty-gritty of what the injured character is going through. Worry and angst and character-bonding doesn't get old for me the way that reading about a gazillion ways of feeding someone ice chips does. For example, I'd rather see a scene with the injured characters' friends playing cards and bickering while waiting for them to come out of recovery than see the same time period from the viewpoint of the injured character waking up from anesthesia, getting sick all over a nurse and having a catheter inserted ... if you know what I mean!
On the other hand, I checked yes to both of the last two because I don't think I've yet read a detailed, well-researched surgery scene, and that sounds interesting. (Field or battlefield surgery especially!) And, while I'd generally prefer NOT to read a story of the cyclical, never-going-anywhere type in which a character gets hurt and hurt again and suffers setbacks and so on and so on and SO ON ... I've been very interested in the all-too-rare stories that address consequences in a way that h/c usually doesn't; I would love to read a story that dealt with a character learning to live with a physical or mental disability (with no magic Ancient tech fixes), and things along those lines.