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⌈ Secret Post #6058 + 6059 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Overrated books and/or authors?

[(Anonymous)]

Years ago, when it was The Thing, I read 'The Lovely Bones.' The moment when I came to truly and fully wonder why everyone was so into it was when the main character possessed her sister in order to have schmoopy, gooey sex with her childhood crush - and the crush was aware that this was happening. Look, it was kind of creepy when Patrick Swayze possessed Whoopi Goldberg, but at least he didn't go ahead and sleep with his girlfriend while he was doing it, and at least Whoopi was consenting.

'The Name of the Wind.' JFC, I hated book. I hated how Special Kvothe was supposed to be (right down to his name having that stupid spelling. Everyone else in the world has normal-ass names, and there doesn't appear to be any widespread convention of pronouncing "kvo" as "quo," but Mr. Red Special Pants has to have just one more way to stand out). I hated how the principle female character was a neckbeard's idea of a tragic figure, the slutty slut who just can't stop slutting and must be saved from her slutting by the Nice Guy, and also she's so unhappy about the awful men who treat her terribly but keeps going back to them because Nice Guys Finish Last or something. I hated how the first couple chapters of the book set up a story I'd actually had liked to read, but decided to spend 1000 pages on Mr. Red Special Pants going to wizard school instead.

'Sex at Dawn.' Upheld as this groundbreaking look at human sexuality, upending all our assumptions using Scientific Evidence. Instead, it's a manifesto from a couple who thinks everyone should be polyamorous like them, and who deliberately misrepresent the evidence in order to convince the reader of their pre-determined conclusion (this includes very brazenly reordering a quote from Darwin in order to make it seem as if he thought monogamy was bullshit. If you read the quote in its original form, he is arguing the exact opposite: the humans evolved to form monogamous pair bonds). I don't think I'd hate it quite as much if so many people didn't treat it as gospel truth ("they have sources! If you disagree with them, you hate science!" Yeah, why don't you read the rebuttal, 'Sex at Dusk,' written by an actual evolutionary biologist, and then get back to me on that?).

Re: Overrated books and/or authors?

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Suzy didn't possess her sister, she possessed Ruth, the implied lesbian. Which somehow makes it worse.

Re: Overrated books and/or authors?

[(Anonymous)]

> I hated how the first couple chapters of the book set up a story I'd actually had liked to read, but decided to spend 1000 pages on Mr. Red Special Pants going to wizard school instead.

YES, my god, I was so ready for the second book to finally progress the story now that we'd covered all that introduction but no, it got worse. And that primary framing is STILL how people are defending the results.

Re: Overrated books and/or authors?

[(Anonymous)]

I just realised that I can’t remember much about Name of the Wind at all. I read it within the first year of publication and again in prep when book 2 came out but on the reread I didn’t like it as much and I really didn’t like the second one at all. I don’t remember exactly why but I think part of it was backlash against the hype.