Don Gato posted:

i just use my phone and hope no one ever asks me to hand write anything.

Safety Biscuits posted:

Are you sure Wuthering Heights is supernatural?

Midnight Voyager posted:

The other half is the reaction of people saying how it's such a powerful romance. No, none of that was romantic, stop it right this instant. It was abusive. STOP.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Level 26: Dark Origins is neither of those things.

Brass Key posted:

Honestly that whole era of Harry Potter fandom produced some of the most entertaining/horrifying insane bullshit. Sure, there's still bizarre drama, but the like of Thanfiction has not come again.

Inescapable Duck posted:

Is it the joke that that's almost the name of an Australian beer brand, I think?

Mr. Sunshine posted:

I had a strange experience with the Vorkosigan books, in that I started with "Cordelia's honor" and assumed that the series would be about Cordelia, but then as soon as she's married she becomes a non-entity and the books are about her son instead.

Serephina posted:

Back on track, how do people feel about the whole "Oh, it was all it dream!" twist used in the final moments of a story?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Anita Blake surely has some material for this thread, given the books apparently devolve into one woman's quest to gently caress all the vampires and werewolves.

Antivehicular posted:

The same kid went on to get suspended for three days for turning in an "Oregon Trail diary" English assignment about Hannibal Lecter, Jean-Luc Picard, and Samwise Gamgee as bandits fleeing eastern justice by posing as settlers on the trail, only for Sam and Picard to die of Oregon Trail diseases and Hannibal to snap and massacre the rest of the wagon train, who were all the characters from a dire Oregon Trail novel we'd had to read for class. Sean, wherever you are, you're still my hero.

Krankenstyle posted:

I don't think I ever wrote a story for school without a murder or other violent death in it

chitoryu12 posted:

Alien Sex Manual posted:

I’m glad those children not only get to be King and Queen and jointly rule their country (I don’t think that’s how it works)

SimonChris posted:

Also, the vividly coloured shirt he is described as wearing is obviously supposed to be some kind of tacky touristy hawaiian shirt. Kirby draws him in a jesters outfit.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

tbh the thing that bothers me about Pratchett having his notes destroyed is, like

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

I can see why they were destroyed though. She's a good writer, but this way it ensures his work and legacy are firmly his, and not up for grabs at a later date due to circumstances no one could have imagined. Maybe she goes bankrupt and has to sell the rights? OH poo poo DISNEY DISCWORLD and man that would loving suck.

Samuringa posted:

It's not like there aren't enough Discworld books.

Screaming Idiot posted:

like every single adaptation of Pratchett's work it's going to be goddamn awful

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I feel like Brian Herbert and KJA have inspired a bunch of writers to publicly nuke their notes so that decades down the line, people can’t claim that their weird sequels that contain things that blatantly contradict the original work were based on outlines in a safe deposit box.

Antivehicular posted:

I'm a big fan of "Japan gets its own school and the entire rest of Asia, including the two most populous countries on Earth, shares one"

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Wizard teleportation is explicitly a difficult thing to do and generally not done too casually, Harry and pals only get taught how to do it in the last book or two. (more or less equivalent to getting a driver's license)

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

there wolf posted:

Which do you think is more common, scifi books that suddenly turn to magic, or fantasy books that suddenly involve aliens and space travel?

WendyO posted:

one of his super powers is rape.

Gats Akimbo posted:

I read a lot of high fantasy and romance, love me some Tolkien, Jack Vance and Tanith Lee, and I bounced hard off that. I think he's trying to be Vancian with that "monger of spies" stuff, and it's really not working for him.

I mean, compare it with:

quote:

Cugel was a man of many capabilities, with a disposition at once flexible and pertinacious. He was long of leg, deft of hand, light of finger, soft of tongue. His hair was the blackest of black fur, growing low down his fore-head, coving sharply back above his eyebrows. His darting eye, long inquisitive nose and droll mouth gave his somewhat lean and bony face an expression of vivacity, candor, and affability. He had known many vicissitudes, gaining therefrom a suppleness, a fine discretion, a mastery of both bravado and stealth. Coming into the possession of an ancient lead coffin -- after discarding the contents -- he had formed a number of leaden lozenges.

Dabir posted:

Both Dirk Gently books are good but in very different ways.

Sisal Two-Step posted:

AmandatheJedi (I know I know)

Unkempt posted:

Sisal Two-Step posted:

I saw this tweet this morning and found it relevant to this thread:

https://twitter.com/corpseinorbit/status/1432840010110230528

Captain Hygiene posted:

I was thinking about book recommendations today and got to wondering, are there particular things you see before starting a book and just instantly feel like you're heading for some terrible writing?

Kchama posted:

Like how people put '-gate' at the end of a scandal when it has nothing to do with Watergate.

Perestroika posted:

And throughout the series the protagonist makes it very clear that for the rest of the galaxy to survive, the only way forwards is complete and utter genocide of that species. She's got basically Kwisatz Haderach levels of precognition, and even she cannot see any other way but wholesale eradication. And that explicitly includes destroying their young and newborn, IIRC with the protagonist making a note that re-education simply wouldn't work.

Serephina posted:

Currently reading a real bait-n-switch, unsure if I should put it down in disgust halfway through or hate-read it to the end. You guys ever finish a book out of a wrongful sense of pride, refusing to give up despite knowing it's totally rubbish?

Either way, I'll write up a post later. I'm angry about it.

21st Cherry boy posted:

I thought I had to finish an entire series out of spite once, I really enjoyed the first book and then the second was awful but I was like hey maybe it's a fluke I'll read the third one and it was even worse and then there was a fourth book and I thought might as well finish the series and then it ends on a cliffhanger and I found out there was a fifth book at which point my friend talked some sanity into me.