ITT: The worst genre fiction you've read
I always wonder if the art on these is 3D.
Crime and Punishment. I never read a detective novel again.
>>24745335I really liked these :( I thought VALIS by PKD was dogshit.
>>24745437…I guess there are worse places to tell on yourself like that than 4chan
>>24745335Wanted to see what the fuss was about and yeah holy shit this book wasn't edited. And even leaving out the spelling, wording, and grammatical errors, the plot is still dogshit.Fun highlights include:>The faction most oppressed by the YA dystopia code is also the one in charge of enforcing it>The protagonists solution for having violated the code by living with her sister (who isn't the same astrology sign as her) is literally just admitting to it and then being told "eh you're young so you get a pass">Breaking the code is punished by death. Literally everyone, at all times, breaks the code>Literally half the leaders of the world hate the code and know it is based on bullshit. Somehow they also refuse to just remove the code>The guy who made up the code is immortal and as far as I could tell has literally no benefit from all the random ass restrictions of the code. For all intents and purposes he did it for lols>They do the mortal kombat thing of the gods punishing you for seeking immortality by giving you immortality and special superpowers related to that immortality>The setting is literally post-cyborg apocalypse. This also literally never comes up past the opening exposition dump and is never important to the plot
>I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.
I hate him so much. The worst part is that he actually comes up with interesting concepts, then wastes them by shitting out the most low-effort Whedon banter shoot-'em-up for the actual plot.
Ligotti, for sure
>>24745335I ordered it online knowing nothing other than the fact it won the Stoker (I wanted to read a random horror novel). It was absolutely terrible and if I ever pick randomly from an awards list like that again I'll make sure the cut off is 1995 (maybe that will help).
>>24745709I picked up redshirts from the library recently and just finished itI thought the first 1/3 was pretty good, tolerated the 2nd 1/3 and hated him by the time I finished the coda
>>24745709What kind of plot were you envisioning exactly?
>>24745464>The faction most oppressed by the YA dystopia code is also the one in charge of enforcing itHow that works?
>>24745900Never pick up anything that's ever won or been nominated for an award. Might as well slap a big tranny flag on the cover that reads "Feminist approved!"
>>24745335I read about half of one of the dune prequels. the harkonnen one. I left it on a bench in the park for birds to shit on.
>>24745335Anon Horus Rising is not even the worst genre fiction in the Horus Heresy. Fuck, it's not even the worst among the first ten books of the series. Not even among the first three!
>>24745335They're really fun and cheesy and I read the first 4 in a month but felt guilty afterwards and looked at my stack of classics and philosophy and got back to it.
I don't know what the fuck was I thinking when I decided to give a go to a book written by a nigress
>>24746417the fifth season, I didn't realize I downloaded the spic cover
>>24746417>>24746421this was the wokest shit ever, levitating gay black dudes.The worst bit was when the main character discovered her son was being used as a earthquake controller or whatever and killed him and it was meant to be really cool and good, read like an abortion metaphor
Why would I read genre fiction lmao
>>24745335>Warhammer40KI found the quality varies wildly depending on who wrote it, there's not a lot of consistency. Many are unreadable trash, others not so bad. A few like Night Lords were great reads.
>>24746425yeah I was really trying, but the writing is absolutely horrendous and when they started with the homosexual shit I dropped it, fucking nigger faggots
>>24745335Picrel was actually a good read for the plot alone but the prose was horrible, with very plain similes every second sentence. "She looked at him, like a night owl watching her prey from a tree branch" or some shit. Luo Ji is literally me howeverbeit.
>>24745900The premise sounds interesting. What's wrong exactly with the book?>>24746549I wonder is it more the fault of the translation, the writer or do Chinese people simple write like this.
I don't know if it's a genre in fiction where writers feel the need to write several pages of footnotes every chapter. Explaining what was meant, felt, what something was or lore dump. All things that should have been told and fashioned in the story. But I know I fucking hate it.
I hated it then and I hate it more now
>>24746770oops
>>24745709>10 pages in and the main character and his buddies are viciously mocking a white Christian dad of a disabled vet. Yep, this is Reddit ground zero.
>>24745335You need to read a LOT more shit, anon.
>>24746417>>24746425I tried her book The City We Became and the hatred for white people throughout is truly distracting
>>24745482Fuckin Kek. Holy shit I had a coworker recommend me this once, I’m so glad I never took it up
There is no dragon in this book. The title lied to me.
>>24746525>VGH WE WERE ONCE HEROES >we must revel in the tears of skinned children as is our nature Fucking Talos
>>24745971Not that anon but I expect some somber story with grounded warfare considering it's a military sci-fi with elderly man as protagonist, instead got quippy action story where action isn't even written that good.
>>24747125>>24746425don't forget this nigress won the Hugo award 3 years consecutively... fucking madness the world we live in
>>24745709Old Man's War is unironically alright imo. Just drop the rest of the series and forget it ever existed, and you'll end up with a positive impression of Scalzi.
>>24746597>or do Chinese people simple write like this.Some spoken and writing systems in the East are still archaic is some ways. There is a reason Mao's ultimate goal was to replace the written system entirely, but only got as far as simplified. He knew it would hold China back on the world stage, founder of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew said much the same. Out of all them Korean hangul seems the most sane.
>>24746324The sad thing is huwite men are the majority of the people buying the pandering garbage as well. If they weren’t so tolerant, eg. If they acted like everyone else, all this pandering shit would be a trash fire not making it past issue 1. The amazing part is that you’re both supposed to be insulted AND buy titles pandering to minorities and this is supposed to save the market collectively somehow.
>>24745482This
This was my first time reading sanderson, I could actually stomach the first volume but once I got through the second one I couldn't believe this is one of the most widely read (and praised) contemporary author.
>>24748992I felt the same way about Malazan. Of all the books recommeneded to me /sffg/, only The Curse of Chalion and Into the Bakkerverse turned out to be good.
>>24749015I've tried picking up malazan on at least 3 different occasions and every time I give up on it after the very first chapter lol. I figured it has to be sort of a fantasy literature analogue to warhammer where it's mostly a franchise rather than a true series you would enjoy. Also, the fact that everywhere on the internet people will casually tell you to just suffer through the first volume as it's shit but 'it gets good' after 800 pages or so confirmed my suspicions that it's most likely shit
>>24749041I read Malazan when i was younger, i started on book 3 since it was the only one in the library lel. I later read the 1st book which indeed was slog. Now that ive read actual literature, i would never touch the series. It's too bloated and the writing is mediocre.
>>24748938That’s because Hangul is basically a conlang, it’s like a successful version of what Mao aspired to do
>>24746295So, how it works is that every zodiac sign has a set of rules they have to follow and a set general role in society. They're all completely fucking arbitrary both in and out of universe.The protagonist is a Scorpio, and most of the people we see directly victimized by the system for breaking the rules are Scorpios. Scorpios are not supposed to ever show any emotion or have romantic relationships with anyone or live with non-Scorpios. One of the first scenes we get of what happens if you break the code is a gay scorpio boy getting killed in the street by authorities solely because his lover was from a different zodiac sign. The lover in question is basically left unharmed, and this is kinda the theme with all the similar punishments we see throughout the book: if a Scorpio breaks the rules, they're killed, while anyone who breaks the rules WITH the Scorpio at the very least gets off with a lesser punishment. Both the protagonist herself and the rest of the cast repeatedly talk about how much it sucks to be a Scorpio and unable to make friends or show emotions.The problem is, those authorities that are in charge of killing Scorpios if they break the rules? They're... the Scorpios. They literally have the highest position in the society; their leader has twice the votes of any of the other factions, they're in charge of enforcing most of the breakings of the code, and literally everyone else hates them because of this. The only other faction that has even remotely similar stupid limits on what they can do is the faction that is the bottom tier of society and is literally not allowed to step foot on land. And all the other factions like, admit they hate the code and break it all the fucking time. Literally half the scorpios we see on screen are the ones who hate the code and hide that they're breaking it to avoid persecution, while the other half are the ones who enforce that same code. It is legitimately a caste system where the most restrictive caste restrictions are on the ruling class are enforced by the ruling class.
>>24746763Tf is this an academic text, lmao. Cover art design for character is kindo though.
>>24745335bläsphemy!
Absolute fucking worthless dreck, irredeemable from the beginning to the end.
>>24745335You could name any genre fiction within the last 20 years and I would agree with you.
