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Ngl, that one movie where she bashes her head on a rock because she went a little fast on that motorbike in order to see her ghost boyfriend, then wolfboy is like "oooh you're bleeding" then just takes off his whole shirt.... had me near hysterics.
It was so fucking funny.
I was sold by the pitch meeting series to watch them all and now maintain that these films are some of the best comedies of the 2010s
"ooh you are unconscious" - starts taking off pants
I used to read whatever and my sis had her teen novels around sometimes. It's not because of the target demographic because I read all her gossip girl books and enjoyed them but this and 50 shades are some of the worst books ever written.
Disregarding the plot, the actual writing is 8th grade level. They aren't good authors in the least and shouldn't be encouraged in any way whatsoever. Do not buy it and whatever copy you have left after satisfying your morbid curiosity, burn.
Hunger games is an other one that is complete garbage, but at least the plot made a good movie.
I mean hunger games were probably written for a younger audience. That is how they read for me.
I disagree with the Hunger Games bit... Any possible chance you mean Divergent or one of the other dystopian novels of the time? I'm not pretending it's the best thing on the planet, but the Hunger Games is well and beyond 8th grade writing and is objectively decent writing, plot holes or no.
I read the first two Twilight books because I worked at a book store at the time and it was heavily recommended I do so.
They're just so boring. The writing is..okaaay but boring. The only part I led was showing depression and the passage of time as empty chapters. Nice.
Rest, boring. Stupid. Tedious.
Honestly I should read that series so I can be tortured like all of you were tortured
It's been so long but I don't think they were terribly written. I mean the characters are trash and Bella is a dumb bitch, but I wasn't frustrated enough to actually stop reading. I've only put down one book for good so maybe I'm not the best measure to judge by, though.
Don't leave us hanging - what was the one book that was so bad?
Children of the mind by Orson Scott card. I actually powered through xenocide even though it was awful, but lost all hope by the next book.
Children of the mind by Orson Scott card
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I guess this is an unpopular opinion, but I liked Xenocide. It's a good book. Oh, of course it's not anywhere near the level of Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, but I enjoyed it. Ending was a bit weird and that's why I didn't start a sequel yet. Maybe it helps that I listened to audio book and didn't read the physical book. Some books are more digestible in audio form imo. Or, because I go through 120 plus books in a year, my picture of a terrible book is different.
My biggest issue was the deus ex machina solution. Oh cool, you can magically do whatever you want as long as you imagine it hard enough, and oh look ender has a magical super ai because he's ender goddamn main character syndrome wiggin. Literally every plot line solved.
Also ender is a pretty terrible character. Probably as bad as Bella, even.
I think most people agree that Ender's Game and Xenocide are some of his best works, largely because they promote messages his dumbass doesn't realize his own beliefs violate.
Read it in my early 20s, as a guy. So, not the target audience.
It wasn't bad. To be honest, the secondary characters were so much more interesting. Edwards family in particular were often deeply written, compelling, and downright fucking cool sometimes. Edward is super brooding, Bella is a cardboard cut out designed to filled with the reader, and Jacob was honestly pretty compelling, but a little overly emotional. All in all, decent books. Like 7/10
I liked the individualized superpower aspect, I just wish there was more world building. I have definitely read worse books.
Right, the world building, or rather anticipation of it kept me going. One dude from civil war was interesting, her choice of baby names was... less so.