My roomate threw that book out of her window, she then felt bad about it because it was a library book so she went and got it back.Autistic Lemon post=18.70358.689100 said:
Books and Series to Avoid
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The Redwall series. Same book, same story every time. Same amount of deaths in the same types of characters (usually a newly introduced character is killed, along with an established character from a previous book, the lead characters and his female companion travel far away to collect a mcguffin to safe their copy+pasted home from their copy+pasted villain, finding some help along the way from a warrior in exile)
Amen to that!NewClassic post=18.70358.689093 said:
Series:
Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin
The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
I'd agree on the "Shadow" series by Lucas
The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony (although most of his books would fall on this list for me)
Single Books:
"A Princess of Roumania" by Paul Park
"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
"A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"1984" by George Orwell
"It" by Stephen King for the simple reason that 500 pages could be cut from the book without hurting the story in the slightest
I could add more, but don't feel like wading through my bookshelf.
Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin
The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
I'd agree on the "Shadow" series by Lucas
The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony (although most of his books would fall on this list for me)
Single Books:
"A Princess of Roumania" by Paul Park
"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
"A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
"1984" by George Orwell
"It" by Stephen King for the simple reason that 500 pages could be cut from the book without hurting the story in the slightest
I could add more, but don't feel like wading through my bookshelf.
The Davinci Code
A friend of mine loved it and gave me his copy, contanstly asking me if I read it. So I finally made an attempt only to discover that it read like a bad action movie. I just don't read crap like that.
A friend of mine loved it and gave me his copy, contanstly asking me if I read it. So I finally made an attempt only to discover that it read like a bad action movie. I just don't read crap like that.
Me toounabomberman post=18.70358.689063 said:
and the name of the trilogy is "His Dark Materials."
I freaking LOVE A Song of Ice and Fire, but I see your points.
The most recent Artemis Fowl book.
Seriously, they took a good idea and piledrived it into th ground.
The most recent Artemis Fowl book.
Seriously, they took a good idea and piledrived it into th ground.
My bad. I confused it with the Dutch name of the series. And again, it wasn't a bad book. However, it wasn't an ending worthy to the series, in my opinion.
Ehm, relax, I wasn't poking fun at you or anything. It just seemed funny to me that I liked it and you didn't, period.Alleged_Alec post=18.70358.689084 said:
Somehow the whole love fixes everything at the end was kinda lame but if you are to keep in line with paradise lost that's what you have to do.
On a side note(spoilers): Historically, of the billions of mulefa that should have ever existed didn't THAT ever happen, EVAR in the whole planet?! Those mulefa folk must have been pretty frakking boring in what comes to romancing them couples.
I liked that book.Mythbhavd post=18.70358.689116 said:
The worst book for me was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It was really weird. I didn't understand what I reading half the time. The Redwall series is pretty generic. Artemis Fowl was not that bad, it was over hyped. Any Harry Potter book after number 2.
It gets very into Sexual Torture and falling in love with your torturer, it's kinda freaky. There's at least 1 explicit torture sequence each book and it's always oddly sexual in a freaky kinda way.KneeLord post=18.70358.689185 said:
A thousand times this. I wanted to see what the big bloody deal was about, and when I read it was horrified at the prose, plot and characters in general. When I heard someone say it was the new Harry Potter, I felt offended.Autistic Lemon post=18.70358.689100 said:
Yeah, it's one that tends to polarize people. They either really enjoy it or they really don't. I read 1984 and Brave New World back to back. Scary thing was that I saw today's society as a mix of the bad parts of both.DreamKing post=18.70358.689206 said:
Yet another vote against the Sword of Truth series. It's got a terminal case of Fantasy Bloat. (Terry, you don't have to put every single little idea, image, concept, sidequest, and joke you ever heard, read in someone else's bloated fantasy novel, or thought of while sitting on the toilet in every single book. You are worse than Stephan King who himself says that he "writes like fat ladies diet.")
It's stuffed to the brim with Marty Stu-ism, god-mode attacks, stereotypes, and ideas harvested from other writers who did them better. All this sprinkled with little bits of what might as well be torture porn. Terry Goodkind almost put me off of fantasy altogether. I had to re-read all the Earthsea books to recover my love for the genre.
Also, skip any Anne McCaffrey book written after "Moreta's Ride."
It's stuffed to the brim with Marty Stu-ism, god-mode attacks, stereotypes, and ideas harvested from other writers who did them better. All this sprinkled with little bits of what might as well be torture porn. Terry Goodkind almost put me off of fantasy altogether. I had to re-read all the Earthsea books to recover my love for the genre.
Also, skip any Anne McCaffrey book written after "Moreta's Ride."
I didn't get into George R.R. Martin right off the bat, as it was too heavy and tragic for me - I got halfway through the second novel, skipped ahead a bit and found out that, yes, everyone was still killing each other and all my favorite characters were still being traumatized, disfigured or deleted. Didn't help that I LOVED Eddard Stark and with what happened to him, and how early it happened, kind of put me off. But going into it a second time was a lot easier, and I enjoyed myself more.
I also read and disliked The Da Vinci Code. The text was practically soaked in an unpleasant musk of smug adoration of the author's intelligence. And, for all the womb-worship propagated throughout, he couldn't write a realistic female character to save his own, well, book.
I got a whack of old horror books last Christmas, and while I very eagerly gobbled through and adored Dracula and the collected works of Lovecraft and Poe, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was painful. It wasn't just bad, but stupid - the titular character goes through heaving wracks of emo nonsense over absolutely everything and everything, and while I've come to understand that as an earmark of the time, all that remorse and disgust very frequently plays his actions against not only reason but common goddamn sense. It takes a lot for a book to actually get me angry. Frankenstein pissed me right off.
While I'm sure his work was excellent for the comic medium, anything I've read by Neil Gaiman disappointed me. While many authors make the mistake of not putting enough exciting flashy action into their novels, Gaiman goes the other way, becoming obsessed with coolness and meandering about the story. I liked Good Omens, but Pratchett's humor dimmed Gaiman's flair down to acceptable levels.
I also read and disliked The Da Vinci Code. The text was practically soaked in an unpleasant musk of smug adoration of the author's intelligence. And, for all the womb-worship propagated throughout, he couldn't write a realistic female character to save his own, well, book.
I got a whack of old horror books last Christmas, and while I very eagerly gobbled through and adored Dracula and the collected works of Lovecraft and Poe, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was painful. It wasn't just bad, but stupid - the titular character goes through heaving wracks of emo nonsense over absolutely everything and everything, and while I've come to understand that as an earmark of the time, all that remorse and disgust very frequently plays his actions against not only reason but common goddamn sense. It takes a lot for a book to actually get me angry. Frankenstein pissed me right off.
While I'm sure his work was excellent for the comic medium, anything I've read by Neil Gaiman disappointed me. While many authors make the mistake of not putting enough exciting flashy action into their novels, Gaiman goes the other way, becoming obsessed with coolness and meandering about the story. I liked Good Omens, but Pratchett's humor dimmed Gaiman's flair down to acceptable levels.
Like God Emperor of Dune? The best sci-fi book ever.Razzle Bathbone post=18.70358.688984 said:
Someone said avoid Redwall books. I say, read Redwall and Salamandastron. Redwall is of course the first book with copypaste story edit names format (so you don't get the copypaste impression) and Salamandastron is the only one I read without the copypaste format.
I also say avoid David Eddings, unless you want to read the Belgariad and the Mallorean. For the love of God don't read the everything after he made Sparhawk!
star wars books uhhhh lets think avoid the brian jaques series nice books for a younger audience but for older readers they are addicting and i ended up spending alot of money buying every new book that came out. otherwise i dont know any other series as the literature i like comes in a single book line up
Bear in mind that frankenstein was written by a NINETEEN(prob. twenty) year old girl. That's a feat in itself.
Modern horror remains trapped in the mind of a young unassuming girl. A big "Eat that," to the sexists out there(This last line not directed at you Mnemophage, in case of confusion).