[ SECRET POST #3314 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3314 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Books you read recently that you hated.

[(Anonymous)]

Crimson Shore, the latest Pendergast novel by Preston & Child. It's the last straw for me on that series. It used to be one of my trash favorites. But it's become so obvious that it's now a yearly to twice yearly ghostwritten puppy-mill of a series. There's no trashy joy anymore. This is the sticky muck below the mulch pile.

It used to have at least enough research behind each volume to prop up its faux-literary bullshit, from layouts of natural history museums to using fairly obscure full-character homages from the early years of pulp thrillers. But now? It's shitty shoe-horned references that they explain baldly and badly to the audience before then using them to 'surprise' the readers with a twist that's absolutely not, and no longer any research whatsoever. It's like someone gave Joss Whedon severe brain damage, and told him to still use pop culture references like jigsaw puzzles to piece together a salable plot.

The section in Salem, MA in this last novel was bad. So very, very, bad. "I didn't even bother to read wikipedia, lol," bad. Jesus Christ, almost nobody except 90's kids who saw The Craft buys the "witchcraft is actually 50,000 years old!" shit. Where the fuck did you even get this?

If it wasn't ghostwritten, it had to have been written as a plea to readers to help kill the series off, a la Arthur Conan Doyle. It's not working. It's fucking depressing.

Re: Books you read recently that you hated.

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't amazing but tbh I was just glad not to have to read about Helen, Pendergast's sons or Diogenes.