Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF terrible book: Freud molesting a thesaurus.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

Nckdictator posted:

The "destruction of Mecca" sequence is so overdone one can imagine the author pleasuring himself while writing it.

quote:

:words:

I'm pretty sure I've listened to a book on tape with this scene except instead of Mecca it was San Francisco.

* # ¿ Jul 4, 2015 20:07
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 14:11
  • Quote
The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

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.

IIRC his dad's name is Panis Rahl and his son's name is Dick Rahl.

* # ¿ Aug 8, 2015 13:57
  • Quote
The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

pentyne posted:

I only read the first third of the book, but the MC's wife/gf is part of a social of elite liberal arts/sociology/"enlightened" group and the figurehead, some free thinking professor gets smug and starts talking about how the US governemnt is going to destroy ghettos and bulldoze parks to build the "information superhighway" and the MC just starts yelling at him.

The funny thing is this is basically what is literally figuratively happening right now.

* # ¿ Aug 13, 2015 01:51
  • Quote
The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

Inspector Gesicht posted:

How about series where the author suddenly drops everything that was interesting in favour of inane navel-gazing? Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber is a first-person account of a prince who has to contend with his many backstabbing siblings, and they all have the power to step into alternate universes as they please. What's good about the series is that it starts off sort-of random, but after a while the author links together seemingly unrelated events across books to create big world-changing twists. The plot builds an engaging cast and continuity for the first four book which it then ditches in the fifth.

The Courts of Chaos is only 120 pages and about 20 of those pages have to do with the plot. The prince is all alone this time and he has no interplay with his siblings (The cast up till now is ignored). He just has the one goal but he keeps getting sidetracked, like getting his horse stolen by Leprechauns, or having a picnic under the tree Yggdrasil, or meeting a talking raven. The author pads this poo poo out with page-long stream-of-conciousness bullshit to extend his word-count. The actual ending is good but there's no build-up to it, it just happens spontaneously. It's like when Harry Potter went camping and wiped his arse with leaves for 400 pages.

The last book in the series felt like he realized it was going to the last book in the series with like 20 pages to go. He just starts rapidly resolving plot threads at a rate of 1 per page but still misses a ton of them. I thought the books about the original character were much better than the ones about his son in general.

* # ¿ Nov 1, 2015 18:54
  • Quote
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply
The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF terrible book: Freud molesting a thesaurus.