[ SECRET POST #2729 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2729 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[killer is dead]


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03.
[Lackadaisy]


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04.
[Joe Trohman, Fall Out Boy]


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05.
[Yowamushi Pedal]


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06.
[How To Train Your Dragon 2]


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07.
[A Game of Thrones]


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08.
[Fruit's Basket]


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09.
[Community]


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10.
[Rythian, a.k.a Joakim Hellstrand]


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11.
[The Devil Wears Prada]


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12.
[Night Court]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #390.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

Ever read a book and, either because of false advertising or something else, it ended up being something you wish you'd never gotten in to? What was the book and why did you hate it? (...so I can avoid it XD)

(tw: rape, incest, abortion)

[(Anonymous)]

I read the book 'Tender Morsels' because I thought it was a redo of the classic story 'Snow White and Rose Red', including the bit about the man trapped as a bear, so I was like 'that's cool'. And then there was incestual rape and gang rape and forced abortions and TWO bears and one of them is a perve and the heroine basically has NOTHING GOOD happen to her and it made me feel icky and depressed for days. Ick.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

* Anything by Laurell K. Hamilton after Obsidian Butterfly
* Terry Goodkind - wtf is wrong with this dude
* Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series - long and dull as dishwater
* Deathly Hallows

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[morieris]

Do wikipedia pages count.

I think the synopsis for V.C Andrews' books have truly been the one thing in life I wanted some brain bleach for.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[kaijinscendre]

My Sister's Keeper because the ending was so stupid it made me want to find the author and slap her.

The Pearl by John Steinbeck. It was a good book that I had to read for school. But I was not expecting it to be so damned heartbreaking.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[vethica]

"Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk. If you've read it... nuff said.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors) tw rape, incestuous rape

[(Anonymous)]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The initial publicity material was so alluring, and for a Tolkien fan, so was the prospect of another epic trilogy. Fantasy was my escape, somewhere with clearly defined good and evil, and where good would triumph. Surprise!rapist!protag was not what I was expecting.

Deerskin, by Robin McKinley. She was another author I enjoyed until I encountered the incestuous rape.

This sort of thing is one of the reasons why I enjoy fanfic - that sort of stuff is warned for.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[dethtoll]

Don't read Crossed. It started off as Garth Ennis' take on the zombie genre -- essentially some kind of virus that creates a cross-shaped rash on the infected's face drives them to act out every evil thought they have, effectively becoming homicidal violent psychopaths who like rape.

That was bad enough. Then David Lapham wrote the 2nd and 3rd volumes.

David Lapham needs to be locked the fuck up.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[comradesmiler]

James Joyce's love letters to Nora Barnacle.

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (SERIOUS ick)

[feotakahari]

So many critics loved this book, and I don't really get why. Setting aside the lesbian toe sex and the girl-on-chimp action and the chimp raping a frog to death*, it's a story that really focuses in on the ideas and beliefs of one annoying, pompous guy. It occasionally makes token efforts to discuss his effects on the people around him, but the women in particular are mainly discussed in terms of how his effects on them in turn affect him. Despite its stabs at multidimensional supporting characters, the only character who didn't feel flat to me was Bruno, and I just didn't LIKE him.

* This is supposed to be a moment with deep moral and philosophical implications, showing how the protagonist differs from his father (the frog rapist), how he differs from the people watching, and why the people watching will never understand him. It's a chimp raping a frog to death. Ew.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

I forget the author, but when I was in high school I read a book called Life in the Fat Lane, which I thought would be empowering. It suggests disabled kids have it easier in school than overweight kids (the wording is "would you rather be fat or stupid?" which is problematic in itself, but beyond that, people were far more accepting of overweight kids at my school than disabled kids), and it just... felt like the author was saying if you suddenly become overweight, your life is horrible. Apparently the author herself is heavy, but honestly, I pictured her as some skinny soccer Mom who felt so sorry for her fat sisters. Because that's how she came across. Ugh.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

Sunshine, though I found most of Robin McKinley's books to be highly overrated.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

Twilight, because everyone was saying it was the new Harry Potter. Which actually makes me give it a few points, incidentally ,because as much as Twilight sucked (and it sucks pretty bad), I don't think it was trying to be.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[silverr]

Anne Rice's book with the witch Rowan? (I sort of think this was called Talos?) ... some of her earlier stuff was fun, but that book put her in the "never again" category for me.

... as did Hannibal by Thomas Harris, which I stood in line at midnight to buy when it was released, read non-stop, and then threw it across the room in disgust around chapter 90.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares. I knew one of the "sisters" died. I shouldn't have read it. It kind of ruined the whole series for me.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

I bought Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist because a book site I liked gave it a glowing review. They said it was funny and sexy with lots of queer positivity and teenagers that read realistically and not like teenagers written by adults. I figured there was no way to go wrong with that... except it turned out not to be true at all, especially the "realistic teenagers" part. That's what made me give up on reading it even though it was short, I couldn't stand how forced and phony the narration was. Those characters weren't realistic anything.

The book wasn't brain-bleach horrible, but I've never been so disappointed in a book I paid for based on nothing but one review.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[kallanda_lee]

Hmm, I never read a book I regretted for that reason. I can sort of deal with fucked-upness, the REAL thing that will make me feel lied to is if the book is boring.

That being said, The Wasp Factory did have a huge WTF factor for me. It was given to me by my ex (here, you must read this!) and it did not turn out the way you think. (Do not read this book if descriptions of deliberately killing wasps bother you).

That being said, I do think it's GOOD, just somewhat disturbing.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

Anything by Douglas Coupland. But that's more "IDGI" on my part, not any triggers/squick/etc.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[mechanosapience]

A couple years ago, I was introduced to the Heralds of Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey. I really liked them, up until Burning Brightly, which is how I discovered I had a very specific bullying trigger. Needless to say, I did not read past that point.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

The Life of Pi. I was very bored with and the only thing I remember is the scene where he has this intense pain and he realizes he is defecating. Wait, was this supposed to be about a tiger that was playing as Schrödinger's Cat or something?

Mother trucking Janet Evanovich tw: assault

[iceyred]

I'm just going to copy and paste my review of her book 'Wicked Appetite.'

Having never read anything by this author, I didn't know what to expect. This book is drivel and a complete waste of time. I forgot the main character's name and kept having to check the back of the book. None of the characters had any personality, what passed for a plot was so thin it could turn sideways and disappear, and the one character who MIGHT have been interesting was given no development or motives. The main character is bullied by her romance interest, who forces his way into her bed, and at point is thought to have been assaulted and/or raped. The emotional trauma is brushed off in favor of the monkey who flips everyone off every other page. I will not be reading anything else by this author. This book was trash.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

S.L. Viehl's 'Stardoc' has one of the worst "romances" I've ever read (rape, general creepiness). I liked the concept for the book a lot and some of the medical stuff, but a lot of it was unrealized too. :/

Oh, and 'My Name is Memory' by Ann Brashares because the ending was so abrupt and unsatisfying. It was alright up to that point, but the last couple pages tipped it into the 'do not recommend' category. (Several years later and I'm still annoyed by the ending.)

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[teaphile]

MaryJanice Davidson's Sleeping with the Fishes

The main character is selfish, childish, violent against innocent humans despite her superhuman strength, and unprofessional, but never redeems herself. Most of the other characters aren't much better.

The only good thing about this book was the sassy gay friend stereotype who was actually straight.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[loracarol]

Spirited Waters. Fucking Spirited Waters.

I will never stop ranting about this book okay. Never.

Copying and pasting from when I ranted about it on tumblr:

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K, so, the book I’m reading is… Interesting.

Like, I picked it up because it was about kayaking the inside passage, something I am actually highly interested in.
But it’s kind of awkward reading? Like, I feel like it’s not just a book about a woman solo kayaking the inside passage but about a WOMAN solo kayaking the inside package.

Which would be great, if she talked about some of the legit. issues that women might face! Like, how do you deal with pms-ing when there’s bears and wolves about?

But no.

Instead it’s got really weird descriptors like hummingbirds as “red as period blood”. Yes. Thank you. That’s REALLY what I want to be thinking about when I see a humminbird; my fucking period.

And then, like, she did something to her knife so it looks like labia, and I’m just like ??? why??? Do you get some ~magical ~woman ~power because of it?

Like, I just cannot comprehend putting genitals on your knife, ‘kay? A knife made to look like a dick would get just as much confusion out of me (unless it was played for laughs. This author, however, is completely serious.)

AND THEN she’s fishing, and comes upon a sea urchin, and is gonna eat it, but then she compares the opening of the sea urchin to vagina dentata??????
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AND THEN

she keeps randomly bringing up spiritual information from the various tribes she knows about along the Pacific Northwest, and then practicing different spiritual components from each of them?

Like, she looks at the Eagle, and she says “this tribe believes this of the eagle” and then she prays to the eagle using that tribe’s belief system? Which wouldn’t weird me out so much if she wasn’t constantly picking up things from a ton of different cultures? Like, one minute she’ll mention one culture, and then another, she’ll mention another, and she keeps doing things from all the various cultures, and I just kind of side-eyeing her because you can’t just pick and choose things from a ton of different cultures, and do it to be ~closer ~to ~Earth.

IDK, I’m NOT actually Native, so maybe actual Native persons might think I’m overreacting, but it’s something I’ve noticed.

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Also, every man in that book wanted to rape her. Apparently.

Re: Why did I read that?? (tw: multiple ick factors)

[(Anonymous)]

I can't remember the name of the book, because I've repressed the memories of me reading a snippet of it, but it was supposedly where Shigesato Itoi drew some inspiration for Mother 3 from. It was from that book that he got the names for the twins, Lucas and Claus.

I went into it as a big fan of Earthbound, thinking Itoi enjoyed some quirky aspect about it. Let's just say it was as far from that game as it could get. I had to bleach the hell out of my brain from the numerous squicks that book hit for me. It was definitely not what I expected.