I got my daughter some Percy Jones (Jackson? The novels that put the greek pantheon in stories set in this day) as novels for her to read with me during bed time reading time a few years back and holy shit @ the number of references just peppered through the thing. I’d have to spend 5 minutes explaining things for her to fully understand each paragraph, even ignoring the tough words to sound out. Maybe she was just too young (she was 8, just when her reading really took off), though I probably would have missed a lot of them when I was a teenager. Especially the ones referencing life in NYC.
It came off as pretentious, like the author wanted to show off knowing about a bunch of things more than he wanted to tell a story. It was exhausting and we didn’t get very far into the book.
None of the references were internet ones, from what I recall.
I got my daughter some Percy Jones (Jackson? The novels that put the greek pantheon in stories set in this day) as novels for her to read with me during bed time reading time a few years back and holy shit @ the number of references just peppered through the thing. I’d have to spend 5 minutes explaining things for her to fully understand each paragraph, even ignoring the tough words to sound out. Maybe she was just too young (she was 8, just when her reading really took off), though I probably would have missed a lot of them when I was a teenager. Especially the ones referencing life in NYC.
It came off as pretentious, like the author wanted to show off knowing about a bunch of things more than he wanted to tell a story. It was exhausting and we didn’t get very far into the book.
None of the references were internet ones, from what I recall.