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Samuringa posted:I didn't read it but I never heard any gross stuff about A Series Of Unfortunate Events Jim Carrey played in the movie so it is forever tainted by association
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Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. 1990, so only barely within the last thirty years, but that book is a delight.
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legendof posted:1990, so only barely within the last thirty years, 
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Samuringa posted:I didn't read it but I never heard any gross stuff about A Series Of Unfortunate Events The author is a sexual harasser. It’s the typical privileged white guy “oh it’s a joke” and/or believes saying crass stuff is innocuous, but it’s harassment all the same. This is fairly recent news to the public but per the industry he was known for making inappropriate remarks for years. He did the whole apology song and dance, much like he did four years ago when he made a racist remark toward author Jacqueline Woodson at a conference where she won an award.
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Goddamnit Okay, uh, the Fault In Our Stars guy, John Green? He seems nice enough. Also haven't read his books, tho.
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Cornwind Evil posted:Man, is there any worldwide phenomenon bestseller book/s in the last 30 years that didn't turn out to be a candy coating over a massive center of poo poo? Maybe look at something other than genre fiction?
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:The author is a sexual harasser. It’s the typical privileged white guy “oh it’s a joke” and/or believes saying crass stuff is innocuous, but it’s harassment all the same. This is fairly recent news to the public but per the industry he was known for making inappropriate remarks for years. He did the whole apology song and dance, much like he did four years ago when he made a racist remark toward author Jacqueline Woodson at a conference where she won an award. we were warned  Tunicate posted:the first three harry potter books are pretty good only if you skip the 2nd one and just read 1/3/4
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My only consolation is that Ender's Game remains a perfect gem untainted by any bad associations
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Maybe look at something other than genre fiction? Your right. Someone post some of Franzen's sex scenes.
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Nobody tell me anything bad about A Man Called Ove. Just don't.
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I'm not aware of anything bad about Sophie's World or its author. The only good Harry Potter is The Half-Blood Prince.
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legendof posted:Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. 1990, so only barely within the last thirty years, but that book is a delight. Amanda Palmer's a pretty lovely human being and Gaiman married her.
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everyone lived in the same galaxy as harvey weinstein so we're all sex monsters by association
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Cornwind Evil posted:Man, is there any worldwide phenomenon bestseller book/s in the last 30 years that didn't turn out to be a candy coating over a massive center of poo poo? Persepolis. I Am Malala. Toms River won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 2014 and it's amazing.
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We're getting pretty far from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's level of popularity at this point.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:My only consolation is that Ender's Game remains a perfect gem untainted by any bad associations 
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Cornwind Evil posted:Man, is there any worldwide phenomenon bestseller book/s in the last 30 years that didn't turn out to be a candy coating over a massive center of poo poo? This is largely an issue of historical perspective. There's been both good and terrible popular art for the entire history of the phenomenon, but the worst popular art fades out of memory (and quite possibly literally vanishes, depending on the era and medium) while the better stuff endures. Popular literature isn't getting worse; we're just comparing a mixed bag of modern work with the greatest hits of the past.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:We're getting pretty far from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's level of popularity at this point. I get what you're saying but all three of the books I posted were NYT best seller list, and Persepolis was made into a film. I'm not sure what your standard is for widely popular but IMHO, they all make it. 
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The summer that A Girl With the Dragon Tattoo English translation came out you could hardly go a day without someone talking about it, or talking about how they'd seen the Swedish film, or how they were so surprised that Sweden was such a dangerous place because the Nordic countries always seem so safe. Or about the drama surrounding the author's death and the battle over the manuscripts.
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Ccs posted:... or how they were so surprised that Sweden was such a dangerous place because the Nordic countries always seem so safe. ...people do know it's fiction, right?
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Mr. Sunshine posted:...people do know it's fiction, right? Just wait til you hear what people believe America is like from watching movies.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Just wait til you hear what people believe America is like from watching movies. Next you'll be telling me that China doesn't have random martial-arts fights in the streets on an hourly basis.
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The_White_Crane posted:Next you'll be telling me that China doesn't have random martial-arts fights in the streets on an hourly basis. Don't be racist, that only applies to northern China. Southern China is all stylish gunfights punctuated with occaisional martial arts duels.
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Don Gato posted:Don't be racist, that only applies to northern China. Southern China is all stylish gunfights punctuated with occaisional martial arts duels. Don't even get started on the dove infestations
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Mr. Sunshine posted:...people do know it's fiction, right? They couldn’t tell it’s godawful, so I doubt it. Seriously, the audiobook should have been narrated by Ben Stein so the actor could be as flat as the writing.
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A friend recommended I take a look at The Book of Shadows by James Reese. At one point, the character refers to deciduous evergreen trees.
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chitoryu12 posted:A friend recommended I take a look at The Book of Shadows by James Reese. 
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chitoryu12 posted:A friend recommended I take a look at The Book of Shadows by James Reese. Holy poo poo! I read a galley of this years ago. Wait till you get to the part where a bunch of witches get a little rowdy at a party and cast a spell that causes The Terror.
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Gamemaster Anthony weighs in on Ready Player One with a surprisingly restrained take.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Gamemaster Anthony weighs in on Ready Player One with a surprisingly restrained take. He seems like a sweet soul. Also, of course he wanted more character development in RPO. When you spend every fuckin' birthday partying with every character in the multiverse a crossover reference-fest like this is going to seem mighty unimpressive by comparison.
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I don’t know how many people here read Middle Grade, which is the market one step younger than YA, but I do because I’m trying to publish a book for that market. Out of all the MG books I read I really enjoyed all of them except for one. The Green Ember by S D Smith. The guy apparently wanted to reignite the Redwall spark and apparently doesn’t believe in editing because he had a publishing company that essentially exists to publish his book publish it (I have to assume) minus any attempt at editing. It’s bad. It also has tons of glowing reviews on Amazon which absolutely baffles me. The dialogue is stilted and sometimes downright mechanical. The pacing is hilariously bad (especially for kidlit) with whole tension-less swathes dedicated to the main characters doing nothing in particular except pick up random bits of lore. The voice, which is one of the most essential parts of any kidlit, is dry and didactic. It’s bad!
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Getsuya posted:It’s bad. It also has tons of glowing reviews on Amazon which absolutely baffles me. I had to search for this book and quickly learned the author is Christian; Goodreads suggested “books by homeschoolers” as a related list. So there’s your answer (probably explains the didacticism too).
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Oh. Oh god. And the thrust of the story is about all the good rabbits who believe in the good king that got killed starting a secret, fortified community where they teach each other the old ways, waiting for the evil monsters who have taken over the government (and the weak of their kind who sold out to the evil monsters who run the government) to be taken down by the return of their martyred king so they can go back and take over the government. This... This is religious right prepper fiction for kids.
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I did a bad thing guys: Stay tuned
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gently caress me, I didn't realize the foreword had been written by that sack of poo poo who was too racist for Arizona. How much concentrated garbage can one non-RPO book offer?
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I purchased and read as much of that book as I could before my husband told me to stop reading it to him. Without a victim it just wasn't fun so I gave up.
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girl pants posted:Without a victim it just wasn't fun so I gave up. My true motivation for Let's Read threads.
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