Who is an author everybody seems to love and you can't stand
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Re: Who is an author everybody seems to love and you can't stand
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I thought it was just me! I read the first couple and thought they were great back then, but now ::shudder::Mitsu-Senpai wrote: ↑31 Dec 2017, 23:56 Oh god.. P.C. & Kristin Cast. I 100% cannot stand their work. And I've been dared by a friend to read all of their currently published books. I admit I for some reason loved the House of Night series as a kid. Now though I don't understand why I ever liked the books at all because they're so trashy, racist and ... I'm gonna have to stop myself before I go into full on rant mode. I cringe so hard just thinking about their books and how many I still have to read.
The same with Stephanie Meyer- though I hate-read the last book. When I saw what they named the baby, all I could think was that we've now gone full trailer park.
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YES! We had to read both The Pearl and Grapes of Wrath as summer reading. I would rather pull out my eyelashes one by one if it meant I got the time back that I wasted on those.shizuku42 wrote: ↑05 Jan 2018, 20:20 John Steinbeck F Scott Fitzgerald
I know the symbolism behind their books, I spent a lot of time studying the themes both inside and outside of school, but I still can't stand either author. I just feel so depressed after reading their books. And I've read plenty of writing about misfortune that still felt meaningful...overall it felt like reading pointless tragedy. I do still admire them for their style of writing though.
The Great Gatsby is a sucky story. And who gives a funion about the random sports betting chapter? People love it and have Gatsby parties, but they completely miss the point.
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E L James didn't write porn for women. Its romanticizing abusive relationships. A lot of what goes on is violation of boundaries. Anyone who has any experience with BDSM knows that when the person says the safe word, you stop. Not so for Mr Christian Grey. When you continue after the safe word, that is rape. A sexual act performed on a person without their consent. The safe word renegs consent. E L James is of the stock that agree with "well, she said no, but her eyes meant yes". Any reference to Fifty Shades makes me want to gag on a gag ball. Also, real BDSM is SOOOO much more than some spanking.scififantauthor wrote: ↑12 Jan 2018, 14:03 E.L. James...
I get it; men have porn and it's a huge industry. Finally, a form of pornography which is appealing to women comes along, and it is like a second sexual revolution. 50 Shades of Grey was a ground breaking book because it opened that door to the fairer sex.
I guess I'm just old school, though, because I don't think we should celebrate any form of pornography. It's addictive and destructive. Our society is already oversexualized. It's in every form of media. When 50 Shades passed up Harry Potter as the fastest selling book, I have to admit, I was a little worried about society. I've got a son and two daughters, and I don't want my girls thinking that their sexuality is the most important part of their identity. Just like I don't want my son to reduce women to their sexually appealing parts. I feel like porn does just that. And E.L. James found the a way to get women on the same bandwagon as men. Now, there's nobody left to keep society on a higher moral plane.
I honestly don't know why we Americans make the naked human body a thing of shame in real life but have no problem with videos of people pumping away. If we stopped giggling at naked bodies and realize that yes, everyone has one under all those clothes, we could stop being so perversely fascinated. It would also (hopefully) help to repair our detachment that doesn't register porn actors/actresses and sex workers as real people. Which brings it around to your point about not reducing someone to a sexual object.
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As well, Nicholas Sparks. All of his books follow the same formula: Girl and Guy meet, don't like each other. Then they fall in love and one of them dies. Every. Flipping. Time.
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Suzanne Collins- The way the Hunger Games was written seemed like a middle school writing assignment. I forced myself to finish them because I did like the underlying ideas and world that was created. I felt like I should have had a red pen out and started editing.
And yes, I'm going to go there: Tolkien. I got through The Hobbit ok, but once I moved on to Lord of the Rings- whew! I quit halfway through Two Towers. 11 pages of descriptions of trees!
And Dickens. Nothing struck a chord with me. I just felt blah.
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Lol same. some popular books tend to disappoint me so i dont even try buying them except from author who i know will never disappoint me. i tried to read meyer's book and first page i already gave up. lol.JudasFm wrote: ↑24 Feb 2018, 09:06 Stephanie Meyer. I'm one of those people who tends to avoid popular things for no better reason than they are popular. This is a very daft kink in my nature, and so I thought I'd at least give the books a fair chance before condemning them. After all, I didn't read Harry Potter for a long time until my grandmother nagged me into it and promptly got me hooked on the series, so I thought maybe it would be the same here.
Turned out to be the worst stuff I've ever read. I really hate giving up on a book - I'd rather push through to the bitter end, even if I'm not enjoying it - but in this case I had to admit defeat. I got about three quarters of the way through it, and then just donated it to my local charity shop.
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To be completely fair, vampires don't really interest me and I'm not a fan of romance, so any book with those two things is going to have to be phenomenal to hook mebriellejee wrote: ↑26 Mar 2018, 07:33 Lol same. some popular books tend to disappoint me so i dont even try buying them except from author who i know will never disappoint me. i tried to read meyer's book and first page i already gave up. lol.
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I struggled through all 3 of the LOTRs out of duty, with matchsticks holding my eyes open, just to be sure I wasn’t being unfair.
Then I was told “you read all three? You must have liked them.”
Aaaarrrgghh!
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Lots of people read it, very few keep it.
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A whole chapter about the family walking around the block!
Nooo!
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Totally agree, both The Dark Zone and The Shining were much better as a film adaptations. They removed King’s sugary endings.
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I’m right with you there! I’ve hated the non Christie books. They all somehow missed the vibe. In my opinion, Anthony Horowitz did the best follow-up Poirot in Magpie Murders and it wasn’t even a Poirot novel!
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Try Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, it’s very Poirotesque and even has a book within a book, so twice the value
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I recommend you start with ‘Death on the Nile’ and avoid ‘Murder on the Orient Express’.Bandersnatch wrote: ↑05 Jan 2017, 10:58 I'm embarrassed to say I've never read an Agatha Christie book before. :c
I've wanted to for a long time but for some reason I still haven't which is a travesty, really.