I used to read them in spadeloads, but then I got frustrated because my absolute favourites (including Underwater Light and Eclipse)hung for ages, and my guilty secrets (jedirita's Neville epic, and the original Cambiare Podentes) got going and then froze. In both cases, you read through 25 chapters in a fever of excitement and then pfft.
The trouble is, it being H/D and only 3 plots to go round, it becomes quite difficult to remember what happened. I can remember Eclipse quite clearly but my other huge favourite, Shadow of His Wings, although fantastically well done is sort of old-skool H/D and as a result when it's updated I have to go back 4 chapters to remember what happened.
In fact I've just done this, because ravurian was nagging me to read it and I realised Mira was up to 18/20 chapters now. But the chapters are LOOOOOONG and yes, I'd forgotten everything. I haven't even caught up on myself yet, let alone chapters 14 to 18 which are the ones I've never read.
On the other hand, I adore novel-length fanfic; most short one-shots don't do it for me at all.
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Date: 2006-01-04 10:01 am (UTC)The trouble is, it being H/D and only 3 plots to go round, it becomes quite difficult to remember what happened. I can remember Eclipse quite clearly but my other huge favourite, Shadow of His Wings, although fantastically well done is sort of old-skool H/D and as a result when it's updated I have to go back 4 chapters to remember what happened.
In fact I've just done this, because ravurian was nagging me to read it and I realised Mira was up to 18/20 chapters now. But the chapters are LOOOOOONG and yes, I'd forgotten everything. I haven't even caught up on myself yet, let alone chapters 14 to 18 which are the ones I've never read.
On the other hand, I adore novel-length fanfic; most short one-shots don't do it for me at all.