When I complain that my textbooks aren't amusing, my teachers never seem to take my complaints seriously.
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Anonymous2007-06-19 14:52 ID:k39txq9M
Other than the Bible and Catcher in the Rye, the Black Jewels trilogy is pretty shitty.
I read the first one and after about twenty pages wanted to vomit. It's like Gray's Anatomy in a fantasy setting with the whole, "look at me, I'm a total fucking whore and I have to sleep with anything that moves to advance the plot because the writer has the mentality of a horny fourteen-year-old and can't think of anything better." Not only that but it seems as though it tries to rip off the whole drow culture thing by making it a matriarchal society with all of the leaders being sexist bitches who view men as objects, only this lacks any sort of explanation as to why their society is so different.
Oh, and on top of that, the names of some of the most prominent characters are Daemon, Saetan, Lucivar, and Surreal. Come on, what the fuck sort of high-skool-drama-obsessed-role-playing-goth/emo-weeabo shit is that? What pissed me off even more was that the author goes on about how the main characters have all these extraordinary abilities and yet they're trapped in problems that are far too mundane to fit the description. If someone can do things like vaporize someone with a gesture, they shouldn't be forced to uphold any sort of social obligation or norm that they don't want to.
I also couldn't stand how so many of the characters overreact to all of these situations they're put in, practically fainting when a certain character who is supposed to have all these various powers does something "amazing," as their character type would predictably dictate. The whole thing read like one of those moronic internet role-playing sessions.
Anne Bishop shames every female author and the entire fantasy genre with that load of crap.
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Anonymous2007-06-19 15:56 ID:Uezbttma
That doesn't sound as bad as that one book.
What's it called? Something like "The Lord of the Rings?"
Like what kind of crap is that?
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Anonymous2007-06-20 16:49 ID:qr1e02W+
>>39
Philip Dick is good.
Also Dhalgren is supposed to be pretty great, and it's science fiction.
For me it's probably Ulysses by James Joyce. The first 30 pages are such a jumble you have to read it 10 times over to even understand whats going on. Or maybe i'm just an idiot with cant understand stream of consciousness.
I love most of Bradbury, but the one thing I can never get my head around is Tolstoy. Fucking Ruskie. Everyone circle-jerks to his War and Peace bullshit because it's thick enough to kill a person if you hit them with it, but inside it's utterly dry literature. I got no soul reaction from that book at all.