The books you hated!

[SimonDoom]

I was Team Holy Water, Stake Through The Heart and Silver Bullets

The amazing thing about 50 Shades is that it started off as fanfiction for a terrible series, and then the terrible fanfiction became just as successful as the terrible original on which it was based.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Silver bullets don't work. Garlic enemas, however...

Imagining a female vampire hunter, on a high garlic diet, with exceptional cunnilingus skills...

 

[Djmac1031]

Imagining a female vampire hunter, on a high garlic diet, with exceptional cunnilingus skills...

 

[Djmac1031]

Imagining a female vampire hunter, on a high garlic diet, with exceptional cunnilingus skills...

I suppose the tools of her trade would look something like this...

 

[Djmac1031]

and Eva Green breaking tables during seances.

Was this a reference to Penny Dreadful? God that show was brilliant, really deserved a second season.

 

[onehitwanda]

Was this a reference to Penny Dreadful? God that show was brilliant, really deserved a second season.

It got a second season... and a third. They were just batshit compared to the glory of the first.

Every so often I get an urge to watch it again. But it's only available on Amazon and I have a moral issue with paying that cunt Jeff Bezos for anything any more.

 

[Djmac1031]

It got a second season... and a third. They were just batshit compared to the glory of the first.

Every so often I get an urge to watch it again. But it's only available on Amazon and I have a moral issue with paying that cunt Jeff Bezos for anything any more.

My memory is, as always, hazy. I just remember it being canceled before it finished.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

It got a second season... and a third. They were just batshit compared to the glory of the first.

Every so often I get an urge to watch it again. But it's only available on Amazon and I have a moral issue with paying that cunt Jeff Bezos for anything any more.

*Cough Torrents Cough*

 

[onehitwanda]

*Cough Torrents Cough*

Dear sir, I am but a simple woman who doesn't have time for shit like that.

I will stick to my current trend of watching bearded men build winter survival shelters in the far north of Norway and playing Skyrim again. I'm sure that it will make its way around in the fullness of time.

 

[onehitwanda]

My memory is, as always, hazy. I just remember it being canceled before it finished.

It was cancelled, just like Carnival Row and Firefly, because how dare we be allowed anything nice.

Occasional gemstones still appear, but there's a reason I watch very little TV any more.

Edit: Shadow and Bone is like the YA version of Carnival Row. I want to like it, but I just can't.

The first season of the Witcher was also amazing... and then it shat the bed so spectacularly I will never get over it.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Dear sir, I am but a simple woman who doesn't have time for shit like that.

I will stick to my current trend of watching bearded men build winter survival shelters in the far north of Norway and playing Skyrim again. I'm sure that it will make its way around in the fullness of time.

Um... Walmart

And just a thought, calling Mr. Bezos a cunt or a pussy is kind of high praise in my book, might I suggest dick or prick?

 

[onehitwanda]

The thing I truly loved about Penny Dreadful was that they got it perfect. They took the horror of Bram Stoker's Dracula, parceled it up with some profoundly intriguing werewolf lore (Lupus Dei), and managed to create that little icy chill down the mack of my neck that, frankly, nothing else ever manages to do.

Watching Penny Dreadful was like watching Phantom of the Opera live for the first time.

And then they fucking shot it in the back of the head.

 

[Djmac1031]

Occasional gemstones still appear, but there's a reason I watch very little TV any more.

Agreed.

The first season of the Witcher was also amazing... and then it shat the bed so spectacularly I will never get over it.

Im out after the whole Henry Cavill debacle. Even if the writers manage to right the course of the story, I just cant accept the recasting.

 

[onehitwanda]

Agreed.



Im out after the whole Henry Cavill debacle. Even if the writers manage to right the course of the story, I just cant accept the recasting.

The Geralt / Renfri subplot and Yennefer's growing bond with Tissaia where it becomes evident that Tissaia looks on Yennefer as a daughter (much like Yennefer later looks on Ciri) both captured me early on.

Then it devolved into nonsense.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Moby Dick, it had more boring parts than just a big, fucking, albino whale.

 

[Djmac1031]

Moby Dick, it had more boring parts than just a big, fucking, albino whale.

Just imagine how disappointed the gay male community was with it...

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Moby Dick, it had more boring parts than just a big, fucking, albino whale.

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, which recounts the real event that inspired Melville, is outstanding and horrifying.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yes, I heard about that!

Just imagine how disappointed the gay male community was with it...

Read it and it was much better than the big white dick.

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, which recounts the real event that inspired Melville, is outstanding and horrifying.

 

[onehitwanda]

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, which recounts the real event that inspired Melville, is outstanding and horrifying.

I loved this movie, even though it gave my Thalassophobia thalassophobia

 

[MillieDynamite]

Haven seen it, I guess I should.

I loved this movie, even though it gave my Thalassophobia thalassophobia

 

[lucy_anne21]

I read ‘The mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy, three times. It was compulsory reading at school. We had to write reviews and essays on it, but I hated it more and more each time I went through it. That was 4 years ago, I’ve never opened it since.

Lucy.

 

[Statius]

I read ‘The mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy, three times. It was compulsory reading at school. We had to write reviews and essays on it, but I hated it more and more each time I went through it. That was 4 years ago, I’ve never opened it since.

Lucy.

Not a Hardy fan either.

 

[LatinaCarmen1980]

Artemis by Andy Weir

 

[lovecraft68]

This thread has me thinking about something.

If at 20 someone asked you for five books you loved and five you hated then we flash forward to now, years later and with so much more life experience which can change our tastes, how do you think your love/hate lists would hold up? The same, maybe no longer caring for some of the favs, gaining some respect for one you used to dislike? No change at all?

 

[ColtonWrites]

This thread has me thinking about something.

If at 20 someone asked you for five books you loved and five you hated then we flash forward to now, years later and with so much more life experience which can change our tastes, how do you think your love/hate lists would hold up? The same, maybe no longer caring for some of the favs, gaining some respect for one you used to dislike? No change at all?

The biggest change would be that I will not longer interact with any media by JK Rowling, but at 20 I was a fan, though even then I recognized the quality wasn't great. (Not interested in debating this.)

Most of the rest has stayed the same except that I've forgiven myself for not liking a lot of classics. I was a bit of a literature snob as a younger person - now I read for fun, and fuck it if its not "good literature".