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Djeser posted:There's two good F Plus episodes about people on people on Goodreads and Smashwords bragging about their self-pub books and talking poo poo about people who give them bad reviews. These are some of my favorite episodes of the show and definitely something to listen to. Man some of those authors get mad
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A long time ago, there was a readthrough; don't recall which forum. It was some absolute gunwank about a guy waging one-man war against the Evul Government. Don't recall the title and don't have archives. From another forum, here's the Let's Read Index. No idea how good the books or readthroughs are. I'm following a couple ongoing, but it's more depressing awful than funny awful, so I'm not recommending it.
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# ? Aug 28, 2021 20:56 |
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Gutter Phoenix did a readthrough of The Cult Crushers where the authors couldn't help but make the Neo Nazi a sympathetic character.
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Cobalt-60 posted:A long time ago, there was a readthrough; don't recall which forum. It was some absolute gunwank about a guy waging one-man war against the Evul Government. Don't recall the title and don't have archives. The TFR Unintended Consequences let’s read?
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Hi thread. There's a podcast I like called Expounded Universe where the two hosts read through Star Wars EU books(and one Star Trek/X-Men crossover novel, and one Supernatural book). It's not all total poo poo but a lot of it is more than bad enough to scratch a "making fun of bad books" itch. The first season in particular is great for giving us Xizor, the worst best character ever.
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I also recommend Expounded UIniverse. They're basically blow-for-blow recaps, so you get a lot more of the stupid crunchy details like C-3P0''s "Han Solo, What A Man Solo" song. (The only season I didn't enjoy basically top to bottom was the X-Men/Star Trek crossover book. When it's Star Wars (or Supernatural) one of them is an expert and one of them has only baseline zeitgeist knowledge, so there's kind of a built in "explaining it for the normies" angle, but in the X-Men season both of them were experts so they would go off on, I assume, very funny tangents about comic book stuff and I'd zone out like when I'm listening to System Mastery and they start talking about to-hit mechanics.)
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HopperUK posted:Jenny Nicholson had a video where she tackled terrible neocon book 'Trigger Warning' that might be worth a watch if you're in that mood. the weirdest thing about that book (to me) even more than the author posing as her dead father was that she had written literally HUNDREDS of books but the plot was just incredibly badly told/edited. the book is like 600 pages but is full of repeated plot beats and filler. the main character over 3 days goes on 3 dates with the same woman and gets attacked by the same group every time and wins in the same way. tons of perspective shifts to characters that don't affect the plot. the main character repeating the same speech about himself (or other characters saying it to him). its like one of those webcomic authors who draws every day but whose art hasn't improved whatsoever over 20 years. kind of feels like you have to try to suck that bad. Stexils has a new favorite as of 01:41 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Hi thread. Onision's a youtuber who wrote some disastrously bad books, on top of being a lovely person in general. a few other book youtubers have done reads of them, here's one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XcwsFvOOaA
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Stexils posted:the weirdest thing about that book (to me) even more than the author posing as her dead father was that she had written literally HUNDREDS of books but the plot was just incredibly badly told/edited. the book is like 600 pages but is full of repeated plot beats and filler. the main character over 3 days goes on 3 dates with the same woman and gets attacked by the same group every time and wins in the same way. tons of perspective shifts to characters that don't affect the plot. the main character repeating the same speech about himself (or other characters saying it to him). And for the same reason. You keep putting out that kind of content and you attract an audience through sheer familiarity, and just learn to do the bare minimum to keep going.
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 05:35 |
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thats why its weird, from a "bare minimum" perspective it seems way easier to just write a 300 page book than a 600 page one where you write the same scene multiple times
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Sisal Two-Step posted:AmandatheJedi (I know I know)
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I found this terrible book about 15 years ago and thought it was so bad I posted a thread in GBS about it, and hey I just found the images so here is some terrible stuff from it.quote:510
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Tiggum posted:I don't know. Is there some problem with Amanda the Jedi? I like her videos. No just that her name is silly and I felt silly typing "AmandatheJedi". I like her videos too. quote:She raised a smooth bulbous-thighed frog-like leg
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Unkempt posted:I found this terrible book about 15 years ago and thought it was so bad I posted a thread in GBS about it, and hey I just found the images so here is some terrible stuff from it. I tried reading it in any other voice than this, but it's not working.
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# ? Aug 29, 2021 23:09 |
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I feel like that's a passage that reveals way too much about the author's relationship with his dick.
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I was going to comment on the Freudian
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quote:from afar, written her love letters and then been badly worried when he saw her dancing at a ball with various glittering epauletted sneering tin-soldier-like little Austrian Army lieutenants, all as alike as peas in a pod.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 02:42 |
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I'm basically posting the photos to prove that I'm not making this poo poo up
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Sobatchja Morda posted:I tried reading it in any other voice than this, but it's not working. I mean, that's good but it's not STOG.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 02:45 |
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Goat droppings?
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quote:423
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The gently caress
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 02:59 |
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Oh man, so much content. Thank you goons - you're alright.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 03:08 |
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that last line has me cracking up bad lmao
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quote:353
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sex glands
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 03:35 |
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My question is, did the author write these himself and attribute them to others, or does he have two friends who are just as bad at writing as he is, and in the exact same way?
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 10:15 |
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Amazing. As if the author went "Writing erotica? Oh, that's easy: PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS."
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“Pensile outpouchings” is still blowing my mind, what a sentence
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 12:56 |
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This is the "Eye of Argon" of erotica. Freud molesting a thesaurus. PYF terrible book: Penises would stub themselves helplessly
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muscles like this! posted:She also did a video about a really bad sci fi book that was basically just Reylo fanfic with the names changed. What even is there for Reylo fiction, neither character is particularly interesting.
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OPAONI posted:What even is there for Reylo fiction, neither character is particularly interesting. Since when has that ever stopped fanfic?
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OPAONI posted:What even is there for Reylo fiction, neither character is particularly interesting. Its pretty much just nice girl and bad boy which is a romance staple.
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 21:08 |
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why is a hitler spec script in this book
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# ? Aug 30, 2021 22:54 |
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"A Gun for George" was posted in here way back when (short tragicomic film on YouTube, emphasis on tragic, go check it out), and The Reprisalizer books are far, far better written than that fascist dreck
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# ? Aug 31, 2021 10:27 |
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Seriously, 'The Eye of Argon as neo-Nazi erotica' is way too powerful.
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# ? Aug 31, 2021 10:53 |
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muscles like this! posted:Its pretty much just nice girl and bad boy which is a romance staple. There's been theories for a while that Reylo was clearly aimed at the Zutara shippers. Tiggum posted:My question is, did the author write these himself and attribute them to others, or does he have two friends who are just as bad at writing as he is, and in the exact same way? It could really go either way. Shovelware lit communities fester away. I do wonder if they're as drama filled and petty as the YA fiction community I hear about on twitter.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's been theories for a while that Reylo was clearly aimed at the Zutara shippers. This feels like it's overthinking it; "nice girl falls for bad boy, bad boy turns out to be sad and probably have family drama, nice girl can bring out the good in him!" is a ubiquitous romance trope and very popular. Two things can be based on the same idea without one being based on the other.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's been theories for a while that Reylo was clearly aimed at the Zutara shippers. Like in fanfic or is the theory that Disney was like 'yeah we're going to base elements of our juggernaut franchise on appealing specifically to people who really liked a specific ship in a 15 year old cartoon we don't own.'
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Zore posted:Like in fanfic or is the theory that Disney was like 'yeah we're going to base elements of our juggernaut franchise on appealing specifically to people who really liked a specific ship in a 15 year old cartoon we don't own.' I mean, is that any dumber than much else of the stuff they did in the sequels
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