[ SECRET POST #2434 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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

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[A7X]


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03.
[Stargate Atlantis]


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[Merlin]


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[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]


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06.
[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]


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08.
[Meet the Robinsons]


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[Blood+]


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[Monty Python's Flying Circus]


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[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]


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Comments

What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

And why?

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[queerwolf]

Well, unless it was a book I had to read for class, I don't keep reading books if I dislike them that much. The last book that would qualify for me was Moby Dick, which I had to read for a college class.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.

It started out good but the subplot with the woman who was trying to sabotage him was forced and too easily resolved, and the joke at the end was stupid.

Spoiler: Main character dies but his love interest brings him back as a tiny creature that she made out of animal parts and then she says "I gave you a ten-inch schlong."

Out of context that may or may not be actually kind of funny but no.

It was also kinda racist.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[kaijinscendre]

It was a Warcraft novel It was soooooo awful and boring.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

The Order of the Scales by Stephen Deas. I either loathed or was indifferent to every single character. There were some interesting scraps of backstory and worldbuilding, but the author frequently ignored them in favour of having his female characters raped/drugged and raped/gangraped/almost raped/claim they were raped. The most charismatic creature in the whole book was a bloodthirsty dragon who wanted to exterminate humanity, and frankly I saw no reason she shouldn't succeed.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[dreemyweird]

Aw, I haven't read really bad books in a looong time. For some reason everything I'm reading these days turns out to be decent at worst.

Well, OK, I read this book written by a friend of our family, it was really pointless and unprofessionally made. I also spotted a ton of mistakes. The one thing I liked was the familiar cultural context - there aren't many people who write about things she wrote about. But everything else... just... no. (I'm disappointed, tbh. I guess I hoped to discover a hidden genius or something)

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[inkdust]

Swamplandia. It just didn't make me care /at all/.

Trigger warning for non-con elements

[(Anonymous)]

It was a French book about a girl who translates books and actually write famous people's autobiographies. She moves with her husband and son in a new apartment and her neighbor is a creepy stalker. When her husband's away he watches her by the window, puts Rolling Stones music very loudly to send her ~messages and stuff.
Then they finally meet for real because she had to go to the hospital (and he's a doctor) for something I don't remember, and he explains that he wanted her to feel more liberated. They nearly have sex, then she backs off and the guy turns into a creepy rapist that she nearly escapes. Guy goes in jail, girl writes her own first book telling her story and she dedicates the book to the creepy neighbor because she felt he actually did help her grow as a person and as an author.

So the end was just super weird and felt flat for me. It's more disappointment than hate really.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

- Currently reading A Conspiracy of Alchemists (steampunk+magic), because it seemed like an intriguing idea. Am not impressed, so far, but about halfway through, the heroine decided she doesn't like the hero as much as she did, so props to her.

The last book I read I hated, I threw across the room, and, at this point, I don't remember which one that was. However, the entire Broken Wheel series by Joyce Ballou Gregorian makes me want to stomp on the books until something breaks, preferably the books' spines.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

A GW2 novel - I didn't exactly *hate* it but...it didn't really sell the friendships between the characters to me, and when that's kinda what the whole thing was supposed to focus on? It's an issue.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

Outside of class or job assignments, I've never understood people who read books they hate. I take that back, I can see if it was a mystery and you want to see how it unfolds. But a romance or a drama? Why read a book that is pissing you off half way through? Why not put it down and move on to the next book?

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

The Rising. I hateeeeee how it ended. It's not a good ending for the Reckoning kids at all. I know why Maya and the others had to stay, they were regressing and needed medication, but the Genesis subjects were fine. I found all the Phoenix subjects to be boring, and so I almost threw the book across the room when I read the part where they give themselves up to the Nast cabal just to give the Phoenix kids some things.

UGH AND WHY, why was the situation so 'dire' and 'unwinnable' now? Kit said in the Reckoning that they wouldn't be looked for a while. He said they were going to contact the other subjects, look for the Phoenix/Icarus/Thunderbird subjects. THey were going to DO stuff. But in the Rising trilogy, it turns out they sat on their asses for six months?! And why was Simon's hair brown? Did she forget he was blond? BLEH.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

Outrageous Fortune, by Tim Scott. Idiotic attempts at satire, America as written by someone from the UK who didn't bother to get his slang and stereotyping double-checked, and a literal "it was all just a dream" ending.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

Holdstock's "Mythago Wood". It is just so stilted and dry. I want to like it, it has a massive fandom amongst folklorists, but I just cannot. And every time I try to read it and fail, I end up hating it all the more.

Currently loving Martin Millar's The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf. Violence, magic, and cross-dressing werewolf princes, what is not to love?

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[meredith44]

Claimed by Shadow by Cassandra Palmer. I'm a sucker for fantasy stories, and I am fine if there is romance to them, but this one? I despised it. I know a lot of people love it, at least based on the reviews on Goodreads, but I really don't know how.

First of all, the main character was an idiot who couldn't figure out the simplest things. And then there were a lot of consent/control issues. Basically, I felt like Cassie had no agency whatsoever and it wasn't just threats to her life (which I expect in a fantasy story), but it was also that her control (especially sexually) was constantly taken away from her. (One of the other main characters had set a spell on her when she was a child that would make her only want to have sex with him. And this is romantic?)

These control/non-con issues could have been palatable if this were a dark novel, but I got the impression that it was supposed to be a fun/light romantic thing. Like "Aw, of course she can't resist these people; isn't it romantic/aren't they so great together?" And that really, really disturbed me. Enough that I couldn't even finish the book, which is something I rarely do.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

Uah, it was a wingfic (I count big bangs to the book category, if that's okay). I got about 3000 words in before I had to turn around when the tortured protagonist suddenly came around to think angels raping him was a great idea. Gawd, wingfic. What was I thinking. *goes to bang head at wall*

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Neil Smith's Crystal Empire (a Phoenix Pick free ebook). Not only does the bad guy pick fights with teenagers, not only does he chop off a neighbor's hand for heresy, not only does he rope teen protagonist's twue wuv into an arranged marriage, but he also--wink wink nudge nudge--might be into homosexual buggery.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to stop reading if I don't like something which stops me from hating it, but I gave Terry Pratchet's Snuff a try and didn't like it (didn't hate it just boring)

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[othellia]

I usually don't read books unless they're high recommended, by an author I already know, etc, so I don't usually come across ones that I hate.

That said, last summer I reread Tamora Pierce's Terrier which I loved as much I did the first time I read it, and then I continued on to read Bloodhood for what I thought was the first time. I slowly realized that I had read it before, I'd just been so unimpressed that I'd forgotten. And I sort of get what Pierce was trying to do, throwing in this huge romantic subplot and building up this guy that just eventually dumps the main character because, hey, that happens in real life and sometimes you just gotta keep moving. But it was still 100+ of random boring romance shenanigans that went NOWHERE.

Which, not to mention, by focusing so much on this floptastic love interest, the villain really felt like an afterthought. I forget if there was no foreshadowing and she came out of left field or if she was so obvious from the get-go that it was almost like a red herring. That's how unremarkable she was. I read the book twice and remember barely anything about her.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[deadtree]

I got about 1/2 of the way through "Pure" by Julianna Baggot before I finally chucked it down in a fury and stomped away. The purple prose was bad enough, but added to that was the complete lack of logic in the world building (which happens in a lot... most... of YA dystopian lit) and the slooooooooow drag of the plot that finally killed it. Which is sad, because in the right hands it could have been a weird, creepy Ryu Murakami-esque novel with a concept like it has (that is, during an apocalyptic event people are "fused" with the objects they were touching at that moment, leaving them grotesque amalgams of human, animal, and inanimate object.

Cut out all the extra crap and it might make a good movie though.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

Neuromancer was the last book I read. Total pretentious drivel more concerned with establishing an aesthetic than establishing a real feeling world. Terrible dialogue. Nonsensical faux-techno speak.

It's something when the movie hackers feels more convincing a depiction of technology.

Empty cliché to the very core, and I went looking for cliché to some degree when I picked up the book considered the inventor of cyber punk. Felt more like the futuristic version of what has become popular steam punk, you know, the whole "Glue cogs to something brown" mentality. Far more soulless than I was expecting from my ProtoCyberpunk.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[darkmanifest]

I've hated so many, I don't know how to choose. Probably that insipid paranormal romance novel where two guys kidnap a woman, drug her, and force her to become a shapeshifter and mate with them. I remember steam was probably coming out of my ears at the story's incredible reluctance to actually use the word "rape" because facts aren't sexy. What was that abomination called again? Oh, yeah Jungle Freakn' Bride by Eve Langlais. Part of a trilogy of stupidity.

Yes, I know, based on that title alone I deserved what I got. I'm weak against the promise of polyamory, okay.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[thene]

I got about a hundred pages into Spiritwalk by Charles de Lint before abandoning it after the fourth wallbang. First, there was a weirdly racist monster description (this is actually worth fishing in my goodwill pile to dig up: 'Thick dirty-white hair like a Rastaman's dread-locks hung to their broad shoulders'), then there was this tangent where he reassured the readers that even though two of the female characters had what I'd describe as a romantic friendship, they weren't lesbians (way to make me lose interest, dude)...I can't remember the third. I don't know what it says about me that the fourth one, the one that made me actually give the fuck up, was when I realised he had no idea how computers work.

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[(Anonymous)]

The Alchemist by Paulo Cuelho.

I just fucking loathed the condescending philosophy of the book.
"Just believe really, really hard and the universe will work in your favour!"

Wow, fuck you, Paul, why don't you try telling that to all the people who don't have the voice to be a famous singer or who aren't inteligent enough to get a degree, or the people who are victims of natural disasters and diseases and the people who just grew up in a shitty era/country or the people who were born with disabilities.

I guess they just aren't believing hard enough!

Re: What's the most recent book you've read and hated?

[pantasma]

Life is too short to read bad books.