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Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Fri 08/28/09 10:01 PM
I just read "the Younger Gods" by David & Leigh Eddings. Book four in a rather sad series. Maybe they have been writing the same type of story for too long. Because all the characters sounded the same. But the last book was horrible. They almost never showed the story. Most of it was people in one place describing what the people in another place were doing. In fact, the same conversations would take place 5 or 6 times with various different participants. It was redundant and tedious and boring. Then the culmination of the 'action' was broken up into 5 scenes. And told OUT OF ORDER. 1. O come's up with the plan and sets it in motion to destroy the hive and the 'queen' bug. 2. A, in a different location, tells others just what O has done. Only she describes it all before we have seen it as the reader. 3. All the 'caretakers' have been sent away but for a few. The infant bugs are supposed to go to the caretakers. But since the remaining caretakers don't have the right orders they see the infant bugs as food and start eating. 4. The queen bug sees this and starts screaming. 5. O muffles the orders the queen is sending, to care for the infants, and sends most of the 'caretakers' away. Then, the very ending has the ulitimate god and goddess go back in time to and 'fix' things which totally negates everything that has happened in all four books while still keeping the destruction of the bug people. All in all, the most pointless book every, making this the most useless series I've ever read. I missed book 4. I didn't realize it was released 2 years ago. I did think it was taking a long time to come out. I'm guessing I missed it because it was so very bad that no one tried to draw any attention to it.

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Fri 08/28/09 10:29 PM
I want my money back for all 4 books, the ending was just that bad.

Wolf19 Joined Wed 01/23/08 Posts: 6172	Fri 08/28/09 10:34 PM
you know what book i hate? hooper humper dink....i dont want him at my party and....what kinda mom names their kid hooper humper dink?!!!

SunnyMcleod Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 15208	Fri 08/28/09 10:39 PM
Wow, I will totally not read that book... Worst book I ever read...An Uncomplicated Kindness by Miriam Towes. I wanted to slap myself for buying it. Or anything by Farley Mowitts. I don't care if he's Canadian, his books suck!

JustAGuy2112 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 18033	Fri 08/28/09 10:52 PM
Meh. Just wait till I finish mine.... Then you'll have a new one to add to the list. LMAO

SunnyMcleod Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 15208	Fri 08/28/09 10:54 PM
Meh. Just wait till I finish mine.... Then you'll have a new one to add to the list. LMAO What are you writing about? You know, so I can keep an eye out and avoid it kidding!

JustAGuy2112 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 18033	Fri 08/28/09 10:58 PM
Meh. Just wait till I finish mine.... Then you'll have a new one to add to the list. LMAO What are you writing about? You know, so I can keep an eye out and avoid it kidding! What I have finished so far is on the Creative Writing forum. lol But don't look.

SunnyMcleod Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 15208	Fri 08/28/09 11:05 PM
Cool, I'll check it out. I've got a few things in there too. Boo to bad books!

JustAGuy2112 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 18033	Fri 08/28/09 11:18 PM
Yeah. There's nothing worse than a bad book. I know that the Clan of the Cave Bear books were considered ( by a LOT of people ) to be really good. But to me, the first one was one of the worst books I have ever read. Never did bother with any of the other ones from that series, or from that author.

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 08/29/09 04:06 PM
I think the only reason anyone thought they were any good was because it was the first time anyone tried to do a prehistoric novel by doing actual RESEARCH first and making an attempt to get some sort of authenticity to what it might have been like based on the archeological and anthropological evidence. That was the only reason I read it.

SunnyMcleod Joined Fri 01/11/08 Posts: 15208	Sat 08/29/09 09:17 PM
I read 3 of those...and I'm not really sure why I did. And I can't remember much about them. I just remember a lion...

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 08/29/09 09:20 PM
I have read some real stinkers. The Left Behind series was pretty darned bad I realized after about 4 books into the series.

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Sat 08/29/09 09:21 PM
"The Hole in the Zero" Worst book I ever read, turned me off from serious science fiction.

damnitscloudy Joined Sat 04/07/07 Posts: 11293	Sat 08/29/09 09:27 PM
The Twilight series is the void of suck

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Sat 08/29/09 09:31 PM
I think the only reason anyone thought they were any good was because it was the first time anyone tried to do a prehistoric novel by doing actual RESEARCH first and making an attempt to get some sort of authenticity to what it might have been like based on the archeological and anthropological evidence. That was the only reason I read it. Jean Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear" series are heavily researched, and pretty accurate, but she, like Anne Rice and Sue Grafton can get pretty 'wordy'

JustAGuy2112 Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 18033	Mon 08/31/09 11:05 PM
I think the only reason anyone thought they were any good was because it was the first time anyone tried to do a prehistoric novel by doing actual RESEARCH first and making an attempt to get some sort of authenticity to what it might have been like based on the archeological and anthropological evidence. That was the only reason I read it. Jean Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear" series are heavily researched, and pretty accurate, but she, like Anne Rice and Sue Grafton can get pretty 'wordy' " wordy " would be putting it VERY mildly...lmao 20 pages to describe a valley....the blade of grass over there....the color of a rock... Sheesh

violeteves Joined Wed 09/10/08 Posts: 83	Tue 09/01/09 06:53 AM
Worst books I ever read were the Twilight saga... thankfully they were library books, I didn't have to pay anything.

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Tue 09/01/09 07:03 AM
I think the only reason anyone thought they were any good was because it was the first time anyone tried to do a prehistoric novel by doing actual RESEARCH first and making an attempt to get some sort of authenticity to what it might have been like based on the archeological and anthropological evidence. That was the only reason I read it. Jean Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear" series are heavily researched, and pretty accurate, but she, like Anne Rice and Sue Grafton can get pretty 'wordy' " wordy " would be putting it VERY mildly...lmao 20 pages to describe a valley....the blade of grass over there....the color of a rock... Sheesh Try Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Norte Dame" You'd think he was getting paid by the word.

ddn122 Joined Mon 11/05/07 Posts: 12855	Tue 09/01/09 07:05 AM
Absalom Absalom......Faulkner Could not finish it! kept falling asleep...got a "C" on the test

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Thu 09/03/09 08:22 PM
I think the only reason anyone thought they were any good was because it was the first time anyone tried to do a prehistoric novel by doing actual RESEARCH first and making an attempt to get some sort of authenticity to what it might have been like based on the archeological and anthropological evidence. That was the only reason I read it. Jean Auel's "Clan of the Cave Bear" series are heavily researched, and pretty accurate, but she, like Anne Rice and Sue Grafton can get pretty 'wordy' " wordy " would be putting it VERY mildly...lmao 20 pages to describe a valley....the blade of grass over there....the color of a rock... Sheesh Clan of the Cave Bear, a VERY long book considering the lack of dialoge.