"The Wheel of Time" series. Started out ok-ish, then became almost comically bad by book 4, and nauseatingly so by book 5 ( a book I actually put in the trash, which I should feel ashamed for, but I don't). Put me off the fantasy genre for years. First time I encountered a piece of popular fiction so bad it actually made me angry.
So yeah, the tv show will probably be a huge success, lol.
Monogatari is supposedly famous and legendary, but I could never really get into it.
I read maybe the first 2 chapters of the prequel and thought it was okay.
As a general aside in this thread: does anyone else avoid something generally whenever they hear that "everybody" likes it? Pretty much every time that the whole "with it" world Omgloves a thing, I don't.
...yes...
I still haven't watched Game of Thrones and now that it's over, everyone else stopped talking about it.
Good.
Hmmm I dunno, I was looking for something new to read, and some people on deviantart suggested that I should read The Hunger Games. And, yanno, it's not the worst book I've ever read or even the most disappointing, but I just felt completely neutral while reading it, which, in a way, was worse. I just couldn't connect with Katniss and I felt like the love interests in the story were kind of poorly drawn. Like, there's a really sweet moment in the story when bread kid throws her a piece of bread--showing her some kindness and selflessness--and I think that's the most I ever felt during that story.I wish Katniss had been even a little bit more cold and cruel to offset the kindness bread kid showed her. That might have made it more interesting.
Still better than His Dark Materials though.
Love reading through everyone's posts! Keep 'em coming!
@Rosso I was actually interested in looking into the Magus Bride OVA a while back but things got in the way. And then I heard about the iffy elements like Chise's age and that put it down farther on the list for me. Funnily enough, after I read some more complaints from a person about the series, it prompted me start my monster romance novel. And now after reading your post it's going another notch down the list. Haha!
@CodeMonkeyArts My husband tried watching that! He found it dropped off after the first three episodes and I think he finally quit after episode 6. And yeah, it did sound interesting! (Though at first I thought it was about a lady galavanting around with literary monsters and figures solving supernatural mysteries)
@snowy My husband had been reading Wheel of Time since his youth and I think he said pretty much the same thing about it! As I recall, he said it just turns into a cycle of X gets abducted, the others save them. And whoa, I did not know they're making a show about it
The 'A Darker Shade of Magic' series. I read the first but couldn't get through the second. The story and characters felt like they were getting shallower rather than deeper and a few off-putting straw men discussions made what should have been an interesting world more bland than cotton ball soup
Oh boy, I have the first book of this sitting on my nightstand right now waiting to be read. XD
I'll still probably read it, since I already have it, but I'll keep what you posted in mind haha
Seriously, don't bother Those are hours of your life you can never recover. You'd get more entertainment out of reading the facebook terms of service.
"Awkward" is right, and they turn that up to 11. These characters not only keep repeating the same actions, dialogue and inner monologue, the author keeps describing it with literally the same fucking sentences, chapter after chapter, book after book. It's like a cut-and-paste tutorial.
And then there's this weird obsession with forcing situations that make the female characters strip down to their underwear. Which would be fine, if it was funny, plot-related, or even remotely titilating. But it's just bizarre !
Female character 1 : "I'm wearing only my shift !"
Female character 2 : "So am I ! Tee hee !"
Female character 3 : "All of us have taken off most of our clothes ! Whatever next ?"
Female character 4 :"Shift ! Shift ! Shifty shift shift !"
I am only slightly exaggerating.
For all that is mighty, I REALLY wanted to like RWBY volume 5. RWBY volumes 1-3 had an okay-ish story but good character interactions and SERIOUSLY AMAZING fight scenes and music. All of that kind of gets lost in volume 5, along with just in general terrible writing, which is what killed my interest in the entire show.
Divergent series. I felt kind of obligated to give the Divergent series a try - it was popular at the time and I heard it compared to the Hunger Games, which I liked. All I got was a below average dystopian story from the movie. I think I DNF'd the book at like, 100 pages.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. People I follow praise this book all the time and I thought, hey, it's a 200-paged book and people say it's good. Why not give it a try? And what did I get? A book filled with shoehorned-in, needlessly complicated metaphors about simple things the characters were doing to the point that it's hard to tell which ones are products of figurative language and which ones are actual events happening in real life, with 4 main characters but only one is really fleshed out, and an overall half-baked book
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If you asked me which book I hated two years ago I would most definitely say this LMAO
oh man, yes thanks for reminding me of how dry the Pullman books were despite the hype. Man. Golden Compass sure was a thing for five minutes, ya? I think I was just way too old to get into it. I was in college at the time.
Stranger Things I love sci fi. I love 80s movies. I love Retrowave soundtracks. I love grotesque alien monsters. I even love D&D.
Stranger Things? Not so much. The first two seasons bored the bejeezus out of me, the third was a little better. But for whatever reason (probably the mania for it in the public eye) it just never clicked with me.
The CW DC Comics shows. (and pretty much every show on the CW except for All-American)
I used to really like them, but after Arrow's 3rd season and The Flash's 2nd season, I couldn't stand the shows anymore.
The writer is a woman and I can say their newest work, Platinum End, has a better cast of female characters and less focus on the romance and it's better too. It's been a solid manga all around. Hoping it gets an anime. Also, no screaming people, at least that I can remember off the top of my head.
Oh man, SAME. Though I haven't seen the third season yet. Don't have much motivation to, especially with so much good anime recently. I'm sorry, but the writing and characters in Stranger Things are just terrible. Predictable plot lines and I really hate kid characters that DON'T ACT LIKE KIDS. They act like sarcastic and annoying little adults rather than kids.
Hmm, two off the top of my head:
re: Game of Thrones - I had started hearing about this series around 2011/12 and wound up getting a box set with the first 4 books for cheap from Costco to give a shot. Sounded pretty cool: huge fantasy epic, lots of interesting characters, dragons?? But... I couldn't make it beyond chapter 10 or so of the first book. I tried like 3 different times separated by a year or more each. Something about his writing style and/or pacing just did not click with me, like at all. Everything just moves at a glacial pace and it's bouncing between too many characters before letting you get acquainted with any of them first, and blegh. I tried the show out, watching 1/2 or so of the first episode and gotta say, I do think I would like that better just because it moves at a faster pace. But I can't be bothered at this point.
Attack on Titan - This one's really petty, but back when this series was first starting to air its anime and it was all the rage, one of my shonen loving friends insisted I had to watch it. I'm also a huge shonen fan, so a few days later I sat down to watch the first episode and... the art style just doesn't jive with me for some reason. I couldn't continue watching past Ep. 1 because I didn't like how it looked :X
