ITT: Popular literature that's so bad its popularity offends you

ITT: Popular literature that's so bad its popularity offends you.

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Anything written by women writers

The Martian

The Hunger Games

This
Even as a kid I knew this shit was awfull

This entire series, especially the first few books. I think the world she created was imaginative and original, but holy fuck she writes at a motherfucking high school level.

I'm 100% serious.

why can't a book for elementary students be written at a high school level?

Fair point. I just think she's an awful writer. Maybe 8th grade level. I tried reading the first one the other day and it was painful. In my opinion, good children's books should be written with a simplicity that is easily understood by kids while simultaneously tolerable to adults.

The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>look at me I read all the fancy books

you don't have to impress me mr. doctor, you're dead

The Martian

I read The Fault in our Stars
It was fucking terrible, John Green is a hack

What about the Divergent books? Assuming from the movies the books are also shit, am i right?

the rating on this shocked me.

The explanation is: Americans.

Well it is a children's book though

Go to bed Harold

my diary, desu

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What exactly was wrong with The Martian? I don't see it brought up a lot here but when it is, it's negative

There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest guy around?!

I was pretty disappointed with it too.

Everything. Someone will say that at least it was sciencey and problem solvey, but even that was shit.

The movie was a vast improvement if only for the lack of narrator.

kek

Fuck off, Reddit

>Even as a kid
The Hunger Games came out in 2008

It reads like really, really bad fan fiction. When I read it all I could think of was that the movie could only be better because the story itself was pretty interesting, but even that was shit. Fuck The Martian. Fuck it to death.

>no There he is

Do you even meme?

>Oh no, I have le science problem! Good thing I am le scientist!

There's the whole plot for you!

>Oh no I'm totally isolated and this could lead to an interesting exploration of human loneliness and how they cope-
>WHOOPS I keep making jokes and wisecracking haha I'm cool and funny and smart-

repeat this shit for a few hundred pages. One of the few books that I legitimately hate.

Just need to point out, it's even subtly worse than that. Cast water was fucking painful.

>dumb forced memes are only for us non-reddit conneoisuesrsrs

>9 years ago

Thinking about how popular Harry Potter is among adults gets me going like nothing else can.
A child being a fan of a children's series is fine, but people in their 30's telling me it's gods gift to writing makes me wish I was blind and deaf

Don't blame me, I never read anything by her. Her face is also repulsive so I try to avoid even seeing her name so that it doesn't pop into my head

>im gonna science the shit out of this
What did he mean by this?

>tfw 2008 was 20 years ago

It's literally the most generic ya series ever written

>tfw I work in a book store in Australia and the Rand novels never ever sell

Conclusion: Americans are retarded

it's like 1984, but infinitely worse.

Honestly this, and We, if it was ever popular.

Europeans can knock the U.S., but Australia is probably THE country filled with the most low IQ proles.

Rand is fairly interesting as a psychological study of the effects of communism.

nobody actually reads harry potter books in their 30s and likes them, right?

The vast majority of potter fans are adults who read them as kids. Many of them never grew up or moved on though.

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Honestly, this must be the most boring thing I've read in my life.

Seems popular both on Goodreads and here.

Literally Tolkien fanfic, along with the thirty Shannara books Terry Brooks shat out.

You're just a pleb. It's the simple explanation.

Reactions to Trump's election on Twitter by adult Potter fans are rather icky

i.e., huffingtonpost.com/entry/facing-a-future-trump-presidency-harry-potter-fans-turn-to-books_us_582394e8e4b0e80b02cea67d?

No wonder these idiots elected Trump if they see their politics in light of children's books.

>We
You mean "we by zamyatin"?

I work in a library, and my list could go on and on.
>James Patterson
>Anna Jacobs
>Nora Roberts
>all the YA
>Clive Cussler
>Lee Child
>Linda Lael Miller
And on and on and on. Honestly, barring a few interesting sounding films and history books, nothing that people have returned (that I have to put away) has ever tempted me. We have lots of classics, but they're never borrowed.

My library keeps a list of the most-borrowed titles at the front desk and I can confirm most people are plebs. Doesn't help that it's mainly senior citizens, either.

The fucking bodice rippers that old women like man, it worries me.

It's not young women who view that shit as porn, it's old ones. Like, really old.

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Corn Tortilla YeCarthy is just a meme. Don't worry.

I remember trying to read the first book. After drudging through two chapters I gave up. Everyone else around me loved it, I couldn't understand why I didn't. I'm so glad high schools over.

>muh prose
>muh biblical themes
>muh cosmic imagery
>muh biblical prose
>muh apocalyptical cosmic biblicalness
>guise whatchu think haben to kid omg did he get raep in the poohole??
>judge is babyfat like innocent baby u think he is satan???
>lel u psued he god he literally never die just dancing dancing

>no your wrong he the demiurge u Mongolian!
>muh ancient hebrew learned man approved

Seconding this

It's incredible how a slightly better written Twilight for 20 something nerdy males gets away with that level of shameless self-insert pandering

It seems to attract the worst sorts of pseuds as well, the sort who are incredibly smug that they've identified Harry Potter as 'for kids' but then sing the praises of a work I can really only describe as 'for manchildren'

This.

I also work in a library, and my god do I have no respect for people's taste anymore. Also, the place is just for babysitting children and tards, and welfare recipients are always there because of the free internet.

It's almost like it's not even about books anymore. I hate the job.

Also, because I'm young everyone expects me to be able to recommend YA to teenagers, and I seem to attract the aforementioned tards and children who want me to help them with their every issue.

None, because I am not a whiny baby.

This so much, I picked it up before it became as massively rammed down throats as I fancied something light and scifi for a mindless commute.

Holy shit is it poorly written, the last quarter or so reads like the author just got bored and wanted to wrap things up in a few rushed sentences. It's a criminal sin that its so badly put together especially considering it has an interesting setting.

I really don't see the appeal of these books.

What an argument

Out of Brave New World, 1984, and this, Anthem is the worst offender of the "It's just 'We' but not as good" trend. What trash.

The Hunger Games
The Hunt (Andrew Fukuda)
The Maze Runner

Basically every other "violent teenagers in a dystopian society" saga by some American Author

>reading books written by a woman
>voting for a woman

not a hard choice, really

I remember reading it as a teenager and thinking it was gods gift to literature. I tried rereading it a few months back, barely made it through the first book.

this

you some kinda cuck?

2017-2008=9
18 (minimum age of this board) -9=9
9 years old = kid

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Your post implies otherwise.

These threads are even more annoying than normies are

Seems about right.

every YA
people shouldn't be allowed to eat shit, someone should intervene

most Cormac McCarthy books are overhyped and shitty IMO

Society doesn't prohibit against bad taste, and it's all the better for us. The lower the people are, the easier it is for you to create an ever widening gap between you and them.

Fifty Shades of Gray
The Fault in Our Stars
Twilight

my mom does

Ender's Game.

Good. Fucking. Christ. That is a badly written book. It's like a train wreck. Except instead of being full of humans, its full of mannequins someone made to look like passengers, and the person making the mannequins has no idea how humans look or act.

The entire narrative divides its time between sucking Ender's balls for being oh-so-superior to everyone else without actually demonstrating any actual skills or abilities beyond ordinary humans - and sucking Ender's balls for being this 'terrifying presence of pure violence' despite never showing any actual skill or abilitiy in violence beyond being mildly handy in a fight.

After i finally struggled to the end, i used it to start my fireplace because i couldn't be bothered to go into my storage room and get some of the newspaper i usually use.

What, over America?

I'm not anti-American by any stretch of the imagination. But surely America has more cretinous idiots than Australia. I mean, just to start with America has the black population.

I don't consider myself a racist either. There's a lot of good reasons the majority of blacks in the US are dumb as fucking planks and it's nothing inherent in their DNA, they just got majorly raped by shitty circumstances for hundreds of years. But it doesn't change the fact that most of them are dumb as planks.

And on top of that you have the entire bible belt population continually voting for people who can be poor as fuck with no health insurance, living out of a trailor, and still voting for people who's major campaign goals are based around making millionaires into billionaires.

Surely Australia can't be more idiotic than THAT.

>There's a lot of good reasons the majority of blacks in the US are dumb as fucking planks and it's nothing inherent in their DNA

thatswhereyourewrongkiddo.jpg

So these books are objectively terrible and the philosophy is shlock aimed at people who don't know dick about philosophy largely in the same way novelty t-shirts are aimed at people who have no fashion sense but it's legitimately interesting if you frame it in the context of Rand's past. Her works are clearly all about the after effects of communism and why she's such a raging cunt all the time

Australia has Abbos, which are by far and away worse than blacks. And they continually elect worse politicians than Trump, so you tell me whether or not they're worse

Veeky Forums has a very punk mentality of like oh no it's popular and therefor uncool. Contrarianism is dirt common in Holden Caulfield wannabes which are pretty vocal in young adults, mostly males, who think their social isolation makes them deep or interesting instead of being a justification for their own horrible failures

Veeky Forums was creaming their pants over the martian for a while. same thing with the name of the wind, etc, etc. Then Reddit got a hold of it and the collective embarrassing tribalism kicked in. I really do not like this website.

this book sold more than half a million copies in the US when not even her family members should've bought it so i firmly agree with this

Are there really that many aboriginals though? I kinda thought you did a better job than that.

Is Rupi Kaur real? I thought it was just a meme

the worst thing is, there's not only people that bought the damn thing, there's people that enjoyed it, thought it was good, and posted long 5 star reviews of how good it is

i need proof that this people were paid to do this so i can sleep at night

I read every single damn Shannara book when I was a teenager and in hindsight they're dull as fuck. Still probably the best I could have gotten from my library though so no regrets.

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So what's the deal with this book? Why am I seeing it everywhere?

That the author on the cover?

He knew it was shit on release year as a 9 years old kid?

edgy

Twenty Thousand Leagues
See it on every fucking recommended list for any sort of fantasy/sci-fi list. Why?

Ugh, it's so bad. It reads as a shitty fanfic from a thirteen year old.

Hear, hear.

Malcolm Gladwell