de la peche posted:

I can't be bothered to bang on about it, but the last Dark Tower book was absolute loving bullshit. Stephen King finished an epic set of books written over 20 years, with over 4,200 pages with what amounts to no resolution. That's some blue balls right there.

pentyne posted:

I almost got physically sick trying to listen to that. Who the gently caress are the morons raving about how great it is? It's tv tropes the book.

And Spielberg is making it into a movie? Ugh, that dialogue is going to be painful.

divabot posted:

The 2016 Hugos need a Euthanised Puppies slate with this book five times in every category. (Maybe he could retitle it No Award.)

Tiggum posted:

Nanomashoes posted:

It's not a complementary thread.

Ambitious Spider posted:

Firefly by piers Anthony. It isn't so much a horror novel as it is a defense of pedophilia

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Rash by Pete Hautman. A weird and bad book.

SirPhoebos posted:

[*]The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy, a convoluted mess with more backstabs than a game of Diplomacy, plus a guide that replaced his head with a laser cannon.
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swamp waste posted:

Sometimes I wonder if the main reason to become a writer is because you're a bitter and powerless little turd and the idea of recreating the universe through the prism of your own dumb ego is too appealing to pass up. And the only way anything truly good ever gets written is when someone, almost by accident, captures something real in enough detail and beauty and ambiguity that it transcends its usefulness to their story and touches ur heart. It's hard to read Dante or like, The Bible, and not think this

InediblePenguin posted:

World War Z was utter loving poo poo. The Survival Guide was stupid and poorly researched to start with, and don't loving try to write in a format where "multiple people are narrating" if you're loving poo poo and can't write in a different voice. Like a bad impressionist who can't change his voice and is like "now I'll be Batman: I am the night! now I'll be a soldier: semper fi herobravery!" in his normal voice but because his dad is a famous comedian everybody keeps going drat HAVE YOU HEARD HIS IMPRESSIONS

Sleeveless posted:

I'm pretty sre that most of the "fans" of WWZ have never actually read the book and are just going off of the title and general "woo zombies " sentiment before it got run into the loving ground.

I am basing this assumption entirely on fans criticizing the movie version for being "unrealistic" unlike the book. Said book which never really explains the origin or spread of the zombie plague aside from a vague reference to organ black markets and illegal immigrants, skips over the part where zombies go from a thing that exists to a global pandemic because the author admitted he couldn't think of a way to do it with slow zombies, and has zombies that are effectively magic since they can be frozen solid in winter and them thaw in spring no worse for wear, walk across the bottom of the ocean in defiance of pressure that would destroy a human body, and have limbs that remain animated after being cut off as of they have minds of their own.

Also all the goofy comic-book poo poo like Japan being kept safe by blind samurai and their otaku protégé. But it's presented as an oral history so it's totally grounded!


Him making the soldiers be so comically ineffective at Yonkers was just as masturbatory as any right-wing military fiction since it was only there to continue his faux-populist narrative with the nerdy armchair generals know more than the real thing and are stuck shaking their heads and clicking their tongues when they're proven right.

The whole book has this whole juvenile "NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD" attitude where everybody in power is incompetent and stupid and nerds are all rad under-appreciated geniuses and since the zombie wasteland is a perfect meritocracy the cool nerds get to run things while the old guard ia relegated to (literal) poo poo-shovelers and the suburban dads die in the woods because they don't even know what kind of sleeping bag is the right one.

Beardless posted:

They already did. Pretty much the entire Star Wars expanded universe is now "Legends", and it's not going to have any bearing on the new movies, or any of the new books or comics that are coming out.

Ambitious Spider posted:

I got an autographed copy for Christmas. I didn't start it because I'm tired of fantasy series not being finished but hearing this I might not start at all

Sleeveless posted:

Did you even read the post you were replying to.

When it comes to popular authors Crichton may have been a nutjob and King may have ended a book dedicated to his son with a preteen sewer gangbang, but nobody can touch Dean Koontz's creepy love affair with golden retrievers.

Klaus88 posted:

Can anyone explain why rape pops up to often in bad genre fiction to a clueless idiot?

The Saddest Rhino posted:

my fav thing is OSC being accused of writing Ender's Game as Hitler apologia http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html

Alter Ego posted:

I tried to read this series and could not bring myself to read the second book after slogging through the first. The entire last quarter of it is torture porn. It was loving unbearable.

Also "Darken Rahl". I want to know the thought process that created that name.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

He murders a crowd of protesting pacifists because they support the bad guys. This is portrayed as a good thing.

Klaus88 posted:

Wrong, this is the neckbeardiest book.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

ignoring the tribute to the 80s (it was acceptable in the 80s; it was acceptable at the time) of Cline's novels, reading the summaries of RP1 and Armada really reminded me of the books by Stephen Gould.
thats all

divabot posted:

Authors like Brian Herbert, Christopher Tolkein et al got started by (a) picking the right genes (b) calling Kevin J. Anderson (c) calling for MORE COKE! AND HOOKERS!

muscles like this? posted:

I like how in the first prequel book he wrote he gave the Harkonnens no-ship technology, which wouldn't exist in universe for thousands of years. Also the Baron was fat because Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam hypnotized him to overeat.