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Post by laura on Jun 21, 2017 21:40:15 GMT
the help is shit, fight me in real life.
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Post by laura on Jun 22, 2017 21:14:36 GMT
i was also insulted by how terrible eragon is, the book covers made me think it'd be cool. :<
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jun 23, 2017 3:54:07 GMT
i was also insulted by how terrible eragon is, the book covers made me think it'd be cool. :< Lol, I have a story about this: In University one of my classes for the Creative Writing degree was Young Adult literature. During one of the lessons we had a discussion about books being adapted to film, and the girl who sits next to me was like "THEY RUINED ERAGON  " And the class went quiet and the teacher said "Ellie, you can't polish a turd." And then everyone laughed, the end. |
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Post by laura on Jun 23, 2017 4:39:41 GMT
i was also insulted by how terrible eragon is, the book covers made me think it'd be cool. :< Lol, I have a story about this: In University one of my classes for the Creative Writing degree was Young Adult literature. During one of the lessons we had a discussion about books being adapted to film, and the girl who sits next to me was like "THEY RUINED ERAGON " And the class went quiet and the teacher said "Ellie, you can't polish a turd." And then everyone laughed, the end. lmao!  i hope ellie reconsidered her taste in ya literature. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 18:16:55 GMT
Anything by Piers Anthony. That man is a pig. I started reading his Incarnations of Immortality series - bad enough that the female god incarnations had to service the male gods - I kid not, but there was a moment in the 2nd novel I think where a goddess comes upon a backward village/town and the villagers are about to stone a young woman to death. Her crime? She polluted their water source. How? She walked over it. Her vagina hovering 3 feet above the water polluted it. Now, the Goddess is thinking, "what a backward lot, I'll pretend to do a ritual to clean the water and thus save the girl's live." Except as she performed the ritual, she could feel the pollution leaving the water. Hence, the water was in fact polluted by the girl's hovering vagine.  Closed the book and hated him since lol. I am not a violent person, but if I ever saw him on a Con or book signing, I'd be tempted to slap him. Lol, I also want to slap Piers Anthony, but for inflicting the Xanth series on mankind. I gobbled those up as a kid. What was wrong with me?! Ditto for Mercedes Lackey books trilobitederby. But maybe she's onto something. The melodrama clearly spoke to 16 year old us! I guess it's okay to grow out of books. |
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Post by Crimson on Aug 15, 2017 14:00:58 GMT
I also hate Lord of the Rings.  The Lord of the Rings started the terrible trend of fantasy novels being completely over descriptive. Game of Thrones & Wheel of Time also suffer from this. They are way to denese, you need train by reading lots of books before them so you can slog through them. The Da Vinci code was so terrible I couldn't finish it and I managed to read all of the Wheel of Time out of almost pure spite Yup, hot garbage. |
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Post by turianlannister on Sept 13, 2017 22:09:34 GMT
Hmm, in line of "Do for fantasy what Twilight did for vampires" I'd say Eragon from Christopher Paolini would be a very good contender. I tried really hard to complete the book but it basically just was a reinterpretation of Lord of the Rings through the perspective of a child.  With the basic plot of Star Wars a New Hope Whilst I don't hate them I gave up on the Anita Blake series around book 12, I hear it's at something like 24 books now, books became thicker as she wrote more and more extremely boring sex scenes |
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Post by dmc1001 on Sept 5, 2018 3:22:10 GMT
The E.E. 'Doc' Smith Omnibus. After four years and seven months of trying to read this on Kindle, I finally gave up. The science alone had me scared, but villains were VILLAINS and the heroes were HEROES. They just seemed to be too stereotypical. I could imagine one of the bad guys twirling his mustache. I gave it a one star on Goodreads due to me not being able to get through. I'd read it was the precurso to the Lensmen, which in turn was supposed to be the inspiration for Green Lantern. I would have to pass on that if the writing was like this.
Fire and Flint by Andrew Grey. The main character happens to live in a small town that has a high percentage of gay cops. (Wtf? I'd move there.) He also falls in love with some guy about 5 seconds after seeing him. Then there was a contradiction withing a few pages! Unreadable.
Shattered by Kevin Hearne. Okay, so it wasn't terrible. I rate it low because it's part of a lengthy series and this one wasn't remotely close to the beginning. No hints on the cover about where it fits in. There's a ton of backstory between the characters. There are a lot of old Irish names that are difficult to pronounce. There's a guide for it but having to repeatedly reference it just gets tedious.
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Post by Lee on Nov 12, 2020 14:01:28 GMT
Anything by V.C. Andrews. I mean unless you are really into straight incest with non-consensual sex scenes littered about everywhere... Also the lady wrote one book, then a man was hired to ghost write in her name. How strange is that?
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Closed the book and hated him since lol. I am not a violent person, but if I ever saw him on a Con or book signing, I'd be tempted to slap him.
