Frankly, I read Luminosity because of how much everyone raves about it here, and it didn’t appeal to me at all. Put it down after a dozen or so chapters.
I think my biggest problem is that I’m not a fan of stories as pure vehicles for teaching. Teaching on the side is fine, but trying to embed large amounts of rationalist pedagogy in the middle of a story, to the point where it takes over, is frankly a good way to ruin a story. HPMOR manages to be good despite it, as far as I’m concerned, not because of it. But all Luminosity had was rationalist classroom teaching and Twilight—there’s better venues for both(Sequences and landfills, respectively), and it has none of the insane humour or early plot that brought me into HPMOR.
The plot gets thicker further in. It does take a while to ramp up; if I didn’t hate editing things I’d go compress the first half of Luminosity considerably to get it off the ground sooner. The didacticism falls away almost completely later on, which was mostly accidental on my part but you might find more pleasant.
Frankly, I read Luminosity because of how much everyone raves about it here, and it didn’t appeal to me at all. Put it down after a dozen or so chapters.
I think my biggest problem is that I’m not a fan of stories as pure vehicles for teaching. Teaching on the side is fine, but trying to embed large amounts of rationalist pedagogy in the middle of a story, to the point where it takes over, is frankly a good way to ruin a story. HPMOR manages to be good despite it, as far as I’m concerned, not because of it. But all Luminosity had was rationalist classroom teaching and Twilight—there’s better venues for both(Sequences and landfills, respectively), and it has none of the insane humour or early plot that brought me into HPMOR.
The plot gets thicker further in. It does take a while to ramp up; if I didn’t hate editing things I’d go compress the first half of Luminosity considerably to get it off the ground sooner. The didacticism falls away almost completely later on, which was mostly accidental on my part but you might find more pleasant.
Noted. No promise I ever get back to it, though.