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Post by Cyno on Sept 11, 2021 13:50:54 GMT -5
As far as a book series goes, Harry Potter's been tainted for me because of JK Rowling being disgusting. But blaming it for the downfall of modern society is sure something.
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Sept 11, 2021 14:50:56 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed the New Jedi Order series of books. I know people don't think the Yuuzhan Vong were well written characters but I thought the concept of them was interesting and the series itself kept my interest. I thought they could've trimmed the series down to about 15 books 17 at the most though.
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 11, 2021 15:06:58 GMT -5
Re: Bible translations
I have a New American Bible, and (again, not getting into Religious debate), I've noticed that at least in that version, there are NO contractions. Nobody says "Let's" or "I'll", they say "let us" or "I will" and things of that nature.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 11, 2021 15:34:45 GMT -5
I don't get the love for James Patterson. Reading a James Patterson book is like eating a big bag of potato chips for dinner. It takes up space, but it's all empty calories with no nutritional value, and 24 hours later none of it will still be with you. I've read 2 of his books (both as airport pickups), and they are among the emptiest, most soulless things I've ever read. Yet, somehow, the dude is one of the world's highest paid authors and is now co-authoring books with Bill Clinton. The issue with Patterson is lots of books with his name in big type on the cover are mostly written by others. Patterson will write a 1 or 2 page outline of the story. And another less known author will do all the heavy work. Then their name gets put in tiny print on the cover.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 11, 2021 17:09:47 GMT -5
James Patterson is more of a brand than an author. Almost everything he puts out is ghostwritten.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 11, 2021 18:21:43 GMT -5
James Patterson is more of a brand than an author. Almost everything he puts out is ghostwritten. This makes me wonder what other authors have transitioned into becoming brands. The only other one I can think of is Tom Clancy. While Stephen King and John Grisham could easily, I don't think they have.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Sept 11, 2021 18:24:56 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed the New Jedi Order series of books. I know people don't think the Yuuzhan Vong were well written characters but I thought the concept of them was interesting and the series itself kept my interest. I thought they could've trimmed the series down to about 15 books 17 at the most though. I've met another! Also, yeah, they could have slashed the number dramatically. It honestly doesn't start going anywhere until Star by Star. Traitor is honestly one of my favorite Star Wars books on the Ganner sections alone.
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 11, 2021 18:31:45 GMT -5
James Patterson is more of a brand than an author. Almost everything he puts out is ghostwritten. This makes me wonder what other authors have transitioned into becoming brands. The only other one I can think of is Tom Clancy. While Stephen King and John Grisham could easily, I don't think they have. Don Pendleton (Creator of Mack Bolan: The Executioner) hadnt written a book with his name on it since 1980.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 11, 2021 19:38:19 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed the New Jedi Order series of books. I know people don't think the Yuuzhan Vong were well written characters but I thought the concept of them was interesting and the series itself kept my interest. I thought they could've trimmed the series down to about 15 books 17 at the most though. I've met another! Also, yeah, they could have slashed the number dramatically. It honestly doesn't start going anywhere until Star by Star. Traitor is honestly one of my favorite Star Wars books on the Ganner sections alone. I ultimately didn't like NJO much, but Traitor is fantastic. Though whenever you read a Matthew Stover Star Wars book, you're usually in for a good time.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 11, 2021 22:54:25 GMT -5
James Patterson is more of a brand than an author. Almost everything he puts out is ghostwritten. This makes me wonder what other authors have transitioned into becoming brands. The only other one I can think of is Tom Clancy. While Stephen King and John Grisham could easily, I don't think they have. Rumor was for years was King's wife Tabatha wrote or co wrote 3 of his novels. Which are Rose Madder,Gerald's Game and Delores Claiborne. And reading them they do feel different from his other books. Plus one of Stephen's issues is he has rarely been able to write believable female characters. And in those three books you got piles of well written females.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 11, 2021 22:56:32 GMT -5
This makes me wonder what other authors have transitioned into becoming brands. The only other one I can think of is Tom Clancy. While Stephen King and John Grisham could easily, I don't think they have. Don Pendleton (Creator of Mack Bolan: The Executioner) hadnt written a book with his name on it since 1980. So it is like VC Andrews. Where for close to 40 years none of the books with her name on it were wrote by her.
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Post by dav on Sept 11, 2021 23:32:33 GMT -5
The scariest part about Dracula was the fact that people really didn't know how blood transfusions worked back when it was written.
My interest in ASOIAF dwindled whenever it skipped up to the Wall. I simply just didn't care much about the Others in the slightest and wanted to focus on the events down south.
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Post by saneiac on Sept 12, 2021 2:26:35 GMT -5
James Patterson is more of a brand than an author. Almost everything he puts out is ghostwritten. This makes me wonder what other authors have transitioned into becoming brands. The only other one I can think of is Tom Clancy. While Stephen King and John Grisham could easily, I don't think they have. I wonder about Dean Koontz, just based on volume. It feels like he's been releasing 3 or 4 new novels every year since the 1980s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 3:21:29 GMT -5
As a lifelong Stephen King fan I feel like King did his entire magnum opus, The Dark Tower, a huge disservice by including himself in the story towards the end thus meddling up the waters even more.
Even though portions of the series are my favorite pieces of literature ever written I can say I understand why this series has such a hard time being properly represented in any other form of media.
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 12, 2021 9:22:14 GMT -5
I don't get the love for James Patterson. Reading a James Patterson book is like eating a big bag of potato chips for dinner. It takes up space, but it's all empty calories with no nutritional value, and 24 hours later none of it will still be with you. I've read 2 of his books (both as airport pickups), and they are among the emptiest, most soulless things I've ever read. Yet, somehow, the dude is one of the world's highest paid authors and is now co-authoring books with Bill Clinton. The issue with Patterson is lots of books with his name in big type on the cover are mostly written by others. Patterson will write a 1 or 2 page outline of the story. And another less known author will do all the heavy work. Then their name gets put in tiny print on the cover. Does that apply to his YA books as well?
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 12, 2021 10:58:56 GMT -5
The issue with Patterson is lots of books with his name in big type on the cover are mostly written by others. Patterson will write a 1 or 2 page outline of the story. And another less known author will do all the heavy work. Then their name gets put in tiny print on the cover. Does that apply to his YA books as well? Not really sure. Was told "If you see Patterson's name and another author's name on the cover. Odds are good Patterson wrote a outline and the other author did most of the work." I had wondered how Patterson could manage to put out so many books each year.
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Post by dynamitekidd on Sept 17, 2021 16:46:02 GMT -5
Doctor Sleep is a good novel but a bad sequel.
The Vampire Lestat >>>>>Interview with the Vampire.
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Post by Blade on Sept 18, 2021 23:58:35 GMT -5
Harry Potter is meant for children. The fact that adults got so obsessed with it is one of the things that marked an undeniable downturn in our society by glorifying and normalizing not growing as a person beyond a middle school mindset. It started a disgusting trend of adults robbing children of their entertainment by forcing their own preferences and skewed opinions on shit never meant for them. Watching grown people line up at midnight outside of a bookstore to purchase a children's book for themselves was when I started giving up hope for this country. It's a physical representation of the willful lack of maturity and growth that has caused us to regress as a people. Take that above statement, and replace Harry Potter with Hunger Games or My Little Pony, and the point still stands. The breathtaking irony of saying this on a fan forum for professional wrestling.Grown people watching other people play a ball game sunk the culture decades (actually, millennia) ago, I'm afraid. On topic, I got the first Game of Thrones book as a gift and could never be bothered to make it past the dreadful prologue with its hilarious straight-faced Every Child Gets A Special Magical Wolf nonsense. Even funnier when I watched a few seasons to the show (also not good) later to find out the Special Magical Wolves aren't even that important for the most part. (Also Shakespeare is very overrated. Like he did do some good stuff like Othello and Macbeth but Romeo & Juliet is tripe that needs talented actors to make it at all compelling, and that's also true of much of his stuff.)
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Post by Convoy on Sept 19, 2021 11:22:19 GMT -5
I’m like Kota Ibushi – I don’t enjoy reading fiction. Haven’t read a fictional book in over a decade, basically the second I was not made to by an educational institution. I do enjoy personal stories though, usually about filmmaking or sea creatures.
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 19, 2021 11:34:15 GMT -5
I've read 2 of his books (both as airport pickups), and they are among the emptiest, most soulless things I've ever read. Yet, somehow, the dude is one of the world's highest paid authors and is now co-authoring books with Bill Clinton. And amazingly enough during sales of the book that offer signed copies, Bill Clinton's autograph is hand signed by him while Patterson's is done by an autopen machine. That seems crazy arrogant to me that a former President can hand signed copies but the author can not.
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