[ SECRET POST #1715 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #1715 ⌋

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

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02.
[Generation Kill]


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03.
[WWE]


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04.
[Four Lions/Benedict Cumberbatch]


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05.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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06.
[Singin' in the Rain]


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07.
[Kagerou (webcomic)]


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08.
[SPN]


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09.
[Gregory Maguire]


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10.
[Switched at Birth]


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11.
[FFX]


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12.
[9/11 naudet documentary]


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13.
[Football]


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14.
[Metal Gear Solid]


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15.
[Pandora Hearts]


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16.
[The Walking Dead]


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17.
[Hey Arnold!]


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18.
[Shortpacked!]


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19.
[Rocky Horror Picture Show]


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20.
[Mortal Kombat]


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21.
[10 Things I Hate About You]


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22.
[Resident Evil]


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23.
[SGA]


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24.
[White Collar]


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25.
[Homestuck]


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26.
[Magical Transvestite Cherry]


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27.
[Football]


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28.
[Skins (Gen 1)]


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29.
[iCarly]


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30.
[Darker than Black]


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31.
[Chris Colfer]


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32.
[Legend of the Seeker]


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33.
[Planetes]


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34.
[Phelous, Channel Awesome]


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35.
[Sons of Anarchy]


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36.
[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]


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37.
[The World Ends With You]


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38.
[Frasier]






Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 156 secrets from Secret Submission Post #245.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ], [ 1 - take it to comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

09. http://i55.tinypic.com/30l1gtg.jpg
[Gregory Maguire]

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Oh, you better not be hating on the Hamlet Chronicles.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Lost was actually what inspired this secret (that book was so bad it actually made me angry) but I have yet to read anything totally original by him that wasn't at the very least problematic. And no, I don't want recs.

Re: OP

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as you're not hating on the Hamlet Chronicles.

[ichthyosaur.livejournal.com]

maybe if he wrote a horrible novel but didn't publish it, and then wrote fanfiction of that and did!

[cheshirecat324.livejournal.com]

And then someone could publish a retelling of his fanfic and then the retelling could get popular and develop a fandom where people would write fanfic of the retelling of his fanfic and we could all see forever!

[ichthyosaur.livejournal.com]

then throw in sequels and prequels and it's a total funhouse of a fandom, you'll never find your way out

[cheshirecat324.livejournal.com]

It's an Escher-like hellscape of fandom! And I can't wake up!

[ichthyosaur.livejournal.com]

and THEN - the Broadway play

[cheshirecat324.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooooo!

[immortality.livejournal.com]

Imho, Wicked was his only good book. The sequels to Wicked don't even hold up to it at all.

[loracarol.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Though, I also liked the musical of Wicked, so you should probably take my opinion with a grain of salt. ^_^;;

[deadtree.livejournal.com]

agreed. And honestly, all the other books of his I've read make me worry that, should I go back and reread Wicked, I'd find it was dull, meandering, and full of lifeless characters, too :\ Fortunately I left my copy on the other side of the planet and have never seen it at a bookstore again (haven't looked) so I don't have to worry about that...

[ginpenguin.livejournal.com]

See, I liked Son of a Witch a little bit better than Wicked, but I tend to have unpopular book opinions. I can see where his writing could be potentially problematic.

[replicantangel.livejournal.com]

I think all of his writing is pretty terrible - his 'fanfic' in particular, tbh. Dull and messily done overall.

[stupid-laura.livejournal.com]

Confessions is the only book of his I actually still like. The sequels ruined Wicked for me (A Lion Among Men was such a mess omg), and Mirror Mirror is pretty much the most boring thing I've ever read. Never read Lost, it did not interest me in the slightest.

I do like the Hamlet Chronicles, though. But I read those long before I had ever heard of his fairytale books.

[xenoglossy]

The only non-fanfic book of his I've read is The Next Queen of Heaven, and I didn't think it was that bad. I mean, it wasn't great, but it had its moments. The sequels to Wicked, OTOH, are just awful.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, I totally agree that even some of his fanfics and retellings (Mirror Mirror, for example, was boring and made no sense) are pretty bad, but I have found that I universally can't stand his original work, no matter how many of them I try to read. The guy's a pretty mediocre writer in general, but it seems like unless he has some pre-existing story or characters to build on he doesn't even have a prayer. Ymmv, of course.