Stupidest thing that a book has ever done
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Anything and everything in Matthew Riley books.
The hero seems to solve every problem with his mag hook... a magnetic hook. Like shooting it at an aluminum jet and attaching himself to it...
It's aluminum, a magnet cannot attach to it. And just generally him writing like its an action movie. Watching someone dodge 100000000 bullets was good for movies in the 80s, 90s and less acceptable today. But in a book its downright booorrrring.
He dodges bullets... he dodges MORE bullets... fired from high rate of fire machineguns being operated by professionals.... but he dodges them again.
The hero seems to solve every problem with his mag hook... a magnetic hook. Like shooting it at an aluminum jet and attaching himself to it...
It's aluminum, a magnet cannot attach to it. And just generally him writing like its an action movie. Watching someone dodge 100000000 bullets was good for movies in the 80s, 90s and less acceptable today. But in a book its downright booorrrring.
He dodges bullets... he dodges MORE bullets... fired from high rate of fire machineguns being operated by professionals.... but he dodges them again.
The Dark Tower - Wolves of the Calla.
So there we are, having an awesome amount of time pass while we await the arrival of these child snatching wolves. I loved the setting, loved the characters, and hearing Father Callahan's story was simply awesome...then the inevitable happened:
So there we are, having an awesome amount of time pass while we await the arrival of these child snatching wolves. I loved the setting, loved the characters, and hearing Father Callahan's story was simply awesome...then the inevitable happened:
I waited over seven hundred pages, building in anticipation wondering how bloody this gunfight was going to be, only to find out that the entire battle was merely seven pages long? Not to mention the fact that the Wolves had the instant death mechanism attached to their heads, making them easy to kill. I was honestly expecting a kickass climax where the wolves are fought and gunned down by the entire town. The book cover made it look like this was going to be the "fight book" of the series. Liked it, but the end was somewhat of a let down.
The ending of the Sword of Truth series.
I mean...seriously.
Oh, and Eragon did some pretty bad things as well.
Main one being existing.
I mean...seriously.
Richard just magically knows how to use the orden, gains godhood somehow and creates the perfect world for everyone. It was the most blatant Deus Ex Machina ever used. With all the buildup to it, it was almost the stupidest thing ever in a book.
Oh, and Eragon did some pretty bad things as well.
Main one being existing.
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Dan Simmons's Hyperion saga. The first three books are great, the first two go into the backstory on all members of a pilgrimage, each of them telling their stories. The third one kicks off as a railroad adventure of the child of one of the main characters in the pilgrimage, stressing the effects the events had that unfolded in the first two books. It's incredibly well done and then... the fourth book needed to explain every loose end. It does this by having the main character explain everything, over and over and over again...
Then, for good measure, a number of Buddhism and zen koans are thrown in. I have never been turned off a book more in my life.
Dan Simmons's Hyperion saga. The first three books are great, the first two go into the backstory on all members of a pilgrimage, each of them telling their stories. The third one kicks off as a railroad adventure of the child of one of the main characters in the pilgrimage, stressing the effects the events had that unfolded in the first two books. It's incredibly well done and then... the fourth book needed to explain every loose end. It does this by having the main character explain everything, over and over and over again...
Then, for good measure, a number of Buddhism and zen koans are thrown in. I have never been turned off a book more in my life.
Anthony Horowitz made 3 books in a 4 book series but stopped, the about 3 years later he made almost exact copies of the books with the characters and setting(like a different house) changed and he added a fourth book to the "new" series instead of making a sequel to the original. W-T-F
Ok not sure if this was mentioned, but when Joffrey kills Eddard Stark.
WTF DID YOU PROMISE LYANNA? IS JON HER SON??????????
WTF DID YOU PROMISE LYANNA? IS JON HER SON??????????
I bought a book a little while ago. Its about space pirates and one part has mind controllable robots that they used to rape people remotely on another planet. I guess it's debatable whether this is bad or not.
I hope somebody reads down this far...
The stupidest thing I've ever seen an author do to their story was what David Eddings did to his story in Book 4 of the Dreamers.
He revealed that the "Eldar Gods" hadn't been living forever, but had only just been created immediately before the first book began. This completely slaughters big chunks of the plot. Plot point: the "Elder Gods" tired after thousands of years of being concious? Nope, just made that way. Zelana a ***** because of her own life choices? Nope, just made that way. Argh!
Worse yet, foreign armies had been brought in to fight the evil bug bad guys in the first book because the Gods needed armies. Then it's revealed that the Gods can handle things after all, and the armies are just there to bear witness not to mess with said Gods. Then it's revealed that there are actually super-gods that could settle this whole nonsense in a couple minutes without any hassle. But they don't, not until the end, and not for any good reason. The villains, on the other hand, start out terrifying, but get no such upgrades and by the end are just a bunch of pathetic insects, doomed and helpless.
And to put the capstone of stupidity on the whole thing, at the end the super-gods turn back time, erasing the entire plot from existence, along with the baddies. Why couldn't they have just done this to begin with instead of making gods and playing riddle games and sneaking around and being witty? It would have saved us four books of increasing nonsense and pointlessness.
The stupidest thing I've ever seen an author do to their story was what David Eddings did to his story in Book 4 of the Dreamers.
He revealed that the "Eldar Gods" hadn't been living forever, but had only just been created immediately before the first book began. This completely slaughters big chunks of the plot. Plot point: the "Elder Gods" tired after thousands of years of being concious? Nope, just made that way. Zelana a ***** because of her own life choices? Nope, just made that way. Argh!
Worse yet, foreign armies had been brought in to fight the evil bug bad guys in the first book because the Gods needed armies. Then it's revealed that the Gods can handle things after all, and the armies are just there to bear witness not to mess with said Gods. Then it's revealed that there are actually super-gods that could settle this whole nonsense in a couple minutes without any hassle. But they don't, not until the end, and not for any good reason. The villains, on the other hand, start out terrifying, but get no such upgrades and by the end are just a bunch of pathetic insects, doomed and helpless.
And to put the capstone of stupidity on the whole thing, at the end the super-gods turn back time, erasing the entire plot from existence, along with the baddies. Why couldn't they have just done this to begin with instead of making gods and playing riddle games and sneaking around and being witty? It would have saved us four books of increasing nonsense and pointlessness.