I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a hard time with that, though my problem is that Holden is the only character that immediately made me want to reach into the book and throttle him.Suikun said:
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piers anthony - because I think he actually uses a random word generator to come up with story ideas.
and Stephen King.
The reason I hate stephen king is because more of his books are flashback than forward progressing story. IT was a big example of this.
and Stephen King.
The reason I hate stephen king is because more of his books are flashback than forward progressing story. IT was a big example of this.
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Actually I rather like Salvatore's drawn out combat scenes. And it was definitely better than Paolini's method of some wizard waving his hands and someone falling over dead.
But anyways my worst read ever was Dicken's Great Expectations. It was a few hundred pages of nothing happening.
But anyways my worst read ever was Dicken's Great Expectations. It was a few hundred pages of nothing happening.
Ray Bradbury
I fucking hated Fahrenheit 451 because of how it ended. To me, the whole book seemed to be chapter one in Guy's quest to preserve literature, because I was honestly intrigued by the end, and I wanted the story to go on. But no, he had to stop when the book finally got good, and I hate him for that.
Side note, did anyone else notice how the main character, Guy Montag, has almost the exact same name as the Firebat hero Gui Montag, who was present in the editor? I can't remember seeing him in the game, but I thought about him when I first read the book, and wondered if it was a coincidence or not that they both used flame-based tools.
I fucking hated Fahrenheit 451 because of how it ended. To me, the whole book seemed to be chapter one in Guy's quest to preserve literature, because I was honestly intrigued by the end, and I wanted the story to go on. But no, he had to stop when the book finally got good, and I hate him for that.
Side note, did anyone else notice how the main character, Guy Montag, has almost the exact same name as the Firebat hero Gui Montag, who was present in the editor? I can't remember seeing him in the game, but I thought about him when I first read the book, and wondered if it was a coincidence or not that they both used flame-based tools.
Stephany Meyer. That Mormon *****. (no offense to anyone who is Mormon)TheNumber1Zero said:
I just can't stand her books. They're absolutely horrible!
Oh, wow, the reason you don't get burned or harmed in the sun is because "You Sparkle" and amazingly you're not gay! And you don't have to feed on people's blood just because "you don't want to"
And the supposed "plain/ugly" new girl gets treated like a fucking princess the second she walks in to school and who's name is Bella Swan (which means "Beautiful Swan" by the way)
Then all of the boring as fuck "fights" in the book are just done horribly. Even in the last one, when the big confrontation happens, all they do is sit down and discuss shit then bitchslap each other for a couple pages.
[spoiler/]And dont even get me started on the bullshit sex and pregnancy scene[/spoiler]
You want to hear about that just ask.
hmm... you do have a pretty good point there, but thats why i said the *outcome* of his workings, not the ideas, also, i dont hate him because of american "propaganda", (im canadian, though that might still count) but because of Animal Farm, which made hate the idea of communismDancingman said:
I'm going to be slightly generic and say Stephenie Meyer. I can't stand her books, which proves that it's not a Mormon thing (I was raised Mormon, but even though I still attend church with my parents and think the BOM is true, I just don't care. I want to live for right now, because it's gonna be gone soon if I don't.)
Anyways, I also think that some of Shakespeare's works are heavily overrated. I consider Romeo and Juliet to be one of his weakest works, while slightly lesser known ones, such as The Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew, are quite awesome.
Anyways, I also think that some of Shakespeare's works are heavily overrated. I consider Romeo and Juliet to be one of his weakest works, while slightly lesser known ones, such as The Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew, are quite awesome.
Kinley Mcgregor or however you spell her name.
Eesk, every damned book is a badly written, fan fictionesque sexscapade chock full of Mary Sue characters with a traumatic past and the guys are always 'sculpted'. Seriously, every description of the 'hot lead guy' is sculpted this and sculpted that and for once would it kill her to write something that is happily ever after?
Seriously, there's no tension in a book when you know she doesn't have the guts to kill anyone, not a single one. She's like an Anti J.K.Rowling.
Eesk, every damned book is a badly written, fan fictionesque sexscapade chock full of Mary Sue characters with a traumatic past and the guys are always 'sculpted'. Seriously, every description of the 'hot lead guy' is sculpted this and sculpted that and for once would it kill her to write something that is happily ever after?
Seriously, there's no tension in a book when you know she doesn't have the guts to kill anyone, not a single one. She's like an Anti J.K.Rowling.
Dickens books are good for the story. The characters are generally one-dimensional, the writing is annoyingly verbose, and the social commentary almost always boils down to some anviliciously anti-capitalist message. A Tale of Two Cities, for example, has what I consider to be one of the finest climaxes in all of literature, having a plot that was meticulously detailed from the beginning.
I think Jennifer M P-T qualifies, what with her ripoff of characters from Final Fantasy 7. Stephenie Meyer is also pretty shit, and I've actually read Twilight and the Host.
I think Jennifer M P-T qualifies, what with her ripoff of characters from Final Fantasy 7. Stephenie Meyer is also pretty shit, and I've actually read Twilight and the Host.
Gaaaah. I really don't want to post here just because I want to comment on this post, yet I am compelled to.DasAShinyGolash said:
The entire point of Animal Farm was to satirize how communism went over is Russia. Needless to say, it flew over like a lead balloon. Perhaps you remember the old pig at the beginning of the book explaining Animalism's tenants? Yeah, that represented Marx. The other two pigs took the idea and corrupted it to hell and back, as seen in how they slightly changed the 7 tenants over time. None shall sleep on a bed... with sheets. All are equal... except some are moreso. You were supposed to hate how it ended up at the end of the book.
However, If you actually had issue with the idea presented at the beginning of the book, I have been uselessly dribbling along and feel stupid.
Now, to satisfy the bit of me screaming to add at least something to main topic, I'll say that I haven't read an author that I haven't liked. Sure, I haven't liked bits of books (I echo the sentiment about Ptolemy's Gate), but not everything an author does. Maybe I'm just lucky in who I read or don't read enough.
I dislike Paolini, for reasons the original post touched on rather thoroughly. The only other author I can say I don't like is Richard A. Knaak. I have yet to read anything written by him where I could bring myself to care about obvious self-inserts, Mary Sues, and villain-of-the-week plots.
I've successfully purged all memory of his work on Dragonlance from my mind, so let's look at the work he's done with Warcraft lore, using it as toilet paper to wipe his Rhonin fantasies on. First and foremost, Knaak turned the War of the Ancients, a major turning point in night elven culture and history and arguably the beginning of high elven culture and history, into a time-travel adventure just to continue showing off how awesome his pet Mary Sue/self-insert Rhonin was. He even went so far to have Rhonin teaching Illidan Stormrage magic, backtalk to night elves in high positions of authority (something that, back then, would have gotten anyone else executed). Oh, did I mention that Deathwing compared him to the Guardian Medivh, he marries a high elf girl (a Windrunner at that), has several half-elf children against the odds (high elves have a very low birth rate to prevent overpopulation, thanks to long life spans), and out of nowhere replaces the leader of the Kirin Tor (who was in Alterac/Dalaran overseeing reconstruction)with nary a line explaining how?
I've successfully purged all memory of his work on Dragonlance from my mind, so let's look at the work he's done with Warcraft lore, using it as toilet paper to wipe his Rhonin fantasies on. First and foremost, Knaak turned the War of the Ancients, a major turning point in night elven culture and history and arguably the beginning of high elven culture and history, into a time-travel adventure just to continue showing off how awesome his pet Mary Sue/self-insert Rhonin was. He even went so far to have Rhonin teaching Illidan Stormrage magic, backtalk to night elves in high positions of authority (something that, back then, would have gotten anyone else executed). Oh, did I mention that Deathwing compared him to the Guardian Medivh, he marries a high elf girl (a Windrunner at that), has several half-elf children against the odds (high elves have a very low birth rate to prevent overpopulation, thanks to long life spans), and out of nowhere replaces the leader of the Kirin Tor (who was in Alterac/Dalaran overseeing reconstruction)with nary a line explaining how?