[ SECRET POST #2256 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

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

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[The Most Popular Girls In School]


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[Rust and Bone]


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[My Mad Fat Diary]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]


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[American Horror Story Asylum]


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[Homestuck]


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[DC Comics]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Disappointing books - what is yours?

[elialshadowpine]

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff. There was so much fucking hype about this book, which is supposed to be Japanese steampunk... but the author didn't even do basic research. His research, which he has proudly talked about in interviews? Anime and Wikipedia. Which still doesn't explain how basic mistakes were made that even someone only nominally familiar would stop and go "WTF" at.

Elizabeth Bear, pretty much everything I have read by her. I find her writing overly pretentious and very "look at me and how smart I am". I'm not quite sure what it is about it, but I have had so many people rec me these books and have been so very disappointed and WTF. (Dust in particular was... I really do not even.)

Silence by Michelle West Sagara, which I heard a lot of good things about there being a well-done character with Aspergers. Except that the main character and her friends are basically his guardians and having to explain him and his quirks to everyone. (I have mixed feelings about it, because when I was a child and teen, I had to act the same way with my sister, who also is on the spectrum; however, given the propensity of inactive characters with disabilities... it really bothered me). Moreover, the main plot makes no sense and functions by people avoiding giving the MC any information for no reason whatsoever except Angst. Argh.

Re: Disappointing books - what is yours?

[(Anonymous)]

God, yes, Elizabeth Bear. Her writing seems to me to be very much an example of a movement within speculative fiction right now, except that she has pretty much all the flaws of the style and really, none of the strengths. I wouldn't say pretentious and trying to be smart so much as trying to be literary and consciously trying to elevate the quality of speculative fiction and ending up with books that, to me, don't hang together, and feel broken, and not in an intentional way. They don't work as books. I just don't get it but then there's a lot of things I don't get.