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i think we can all agree civil war fiction is legit bottom tier.
i think we can all agree civil war fiction is legit bottom tier.
theres civil war fiction? i can only imagine what thats about....
Oh man. Public libraries in the 90s were ~stock~ full of the shit. I used to see it everywhere since it was stored right next to the fantasies and westerns. Just appalling. There's something about the civil war specifically that incites blowhardy writing, kind of like World War 2. Except WW2 was really cool, so it gets a pass.
zombie fiction is played out but i just can't quit it. it's so bad and predictable but i can't break free from zombie shit.
im sure you didnt read them, so i can only imagine they were either stories focusing on characters of the time, or what if propoganda like pieces
I did read some of them in fact, my mother whined about me always reading only scifi and fantasy so i naturally saw a lot of these books.
Honestly a lot of them are
1) wartime romances
2) gothic horror tainted ghost stories like someone mentioned
3) historical figure suckoff pieces
oh wait i'm mistaken.
that would be christian supernatural young adult fiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_in_the_Dragon's_Throat
:ufupspoiler (click to show/hide)i had to read this as a child :brazilcry[close]
topic is making me realize ive read some terrible pulp fiction in my life. especially all those arthur ripoffs :(
I think there's something about that story that appeals to young men intrinsically, the idea that you can :ohhh do one thing, pull a sword from a stone ~ and have your destiny changed forever.
I know so much of it's bad but since so many writers are neckbeards there's enough for anyone to enjoy. I've got Malazan and Glen Cook's Black Company on tap right now. My only gripe with the genre is the same with RPG's, since only white people make them it's increasingly stale as far as world building and mythos :(
I think we all forgot the horrors that are Young Adult fiction :kobeyuck
There's some fantasy made from a non-western/ 'white' pov but it's limited.
apparently Bridge of Birds is great chinese inspired but i havent gotten to that yet.
Maybe i should take a :trash on jane austen, just to resurrect mandark.#firstworldlandedgentryproblems def deserves to be on the list
Glen Cook's Black Companymy ninja :noah
jesus christ
Tbh I blame it on video games. The more popular they got the more salient power level shit became. If you read old shit like elric, fafhrd or even in myths magic is treated mysteriously, with mysterious rules with the exception of the quintessential 'magic item with an unforgiving ToS'.
I'm willing to try anything, but I am also willing to hate itasl?
I read all those Frank Peretti novels with the Christian Indiana Jones dude and his two kids. Some of them could have been legit cool if everything didn't come back to the Christian god at every opportunity. There was one where they were being stalked in underground ruins by this 10 foot tall stealthy killer descended from Goliath's race. Shit like that had potential.actually to be totally fair i agree. some of the writing was legit creepy (in terms of shit aimed at teens), but invariably there would be a turn to jesus moment that killed the tension. not that i'm a jesus hater or some shit, it was just brute forced into the story and preachy in weird parts.
I can't fuck with The Gunslinger. The Dark Tower is infamous for shitting the bed in the end and I ain't got time for a multi-book series that disappoints.
I'm gonna re-read Salem's Lot. Read this in middle school, 14 years ago :rejoice
I ain't joining shit nicca. I'll just leave. I don't come here for insults I can recieve irl.Come on breh
read genre fiction like unwashed proles
This guy really trying to pull this with a comic book avatar. Kneegrow please :dead
i'm reading a Melville story that has pirates in it and it is p. cool
Niccas sleep on King. His recent output is flabby but dude wrote some stone-cold classics. People just hate because he's popular, he leans on pop culture at times and he has trouble sticking the landing.
cac kulturkampf beatoff materials
Nah, with YA I know it's not for me but I still can judge it on merit.
When you're writing for pre-teens who don't how to spell most words and rely on quick fixes like "U" and "R" to get a conversation going I'm pretty comfortable in throwing your entire genre in the bushes :yeshrug
i'm reading a Melville story that has pirates in it and it is p. cool
the scar?
Westerns apart from stuff like blood meridian are fairly trash, always gotta cram some harlequin romance horseshit in there
Just keep it to rednecks shooting each other, motherfuckers
Crime novels, dawg. Unless it's older Ellroy. I bought Salem's Lot, The Gunslinger, White Jazz and The Alienest today at the dollar book store :lawd
I never had much patience for crime fiction/pulp detective novels, but given the general rate of their creation...
i'm reading a Melville story that has pirates in it and it is p. cool
the scar?
Melville not mieville you doof. Benito Cereno
That Goodreads.com list only has 11 books on it. Not like 18 pages of results for gawddamned vampire fiction, and all these women detectives and their powerful vamp boyfriends. Jesus, what a load of Harlequin-esque bullshit.
And on that list is Tim Powers’ On Stranger Tides, which you chumps should read before fanning yourselves about how pirate fiction is always so crappy. Get on it, sons.
idk who Tim Powers is but I went to his Wikipedia page and there was a picture of people LARP sword fighting.
Think I'm good never touching anything he ever wrote.
The Anubis Gates (1983)
Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1983;[5] Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1984;[6] BSFA nominee, 1985 [7]
A time travel story set mostly in 1810, featuring a brainwashed Lord Byron, magic, Egyptian gods and a werewolf.
Tim Powers is ok, but he desperately needs an editor for most of his stuff.
I fuxed w/ the Iron Islands chapters in AFFC [spoiler, whatever, fuck you] :yeshrug
shit was slow but that's my fondest memory from Feast