[councilor]

I thought that this could thread could be an interesting alternative to the other thread with the similar name. also, it would be a good place to showcase anything particularly bad that anyone stumbled upon in the wanderings.

for myself, just to kick things off, I'm going to nominate the 'ill made mute', recommended by a friend who can no longer sit properly. anyway, i want to say that no matter how many people praise the blasted book like my good friend there, there is no way in hell that i am going to take another crack at it. i can't really put my finger on it, but is just gets to me, so if anyone can offer a good reason, feel free.

of course, i understand that there may be those who disagree. I'll put it as eloquently as i can: stuff you. odds of me changing my views on this are that an icecubes survival chance in hell.

[Falco]

Anything written by Eddings or the Eddings. Oh so much rubbish, literally the worst fantasy I've ever read...

[Falco]

potsherds;142606 said:

You haven't read Goodkind or Sara Douglass then.

Goodkind I have not, thanks to the warnings of my fellow readers. Douglass I have, but only the early stuff- Battleaxe and so forth. Unfortunately, I have read a whole lot more Eddings than I am comfortable with admitting, even to myself.

[McLovin]

potsherds;142606 said:

You haven't read Goodkind or Sara Douglass then.

or Dennis McKiernan....*shudder*

[RodeoRanch]

longhorn;142629 said:

or Dennis McKiernan....*shudder*

I bought one of his books years ago. I couldn't read more than 10 pages of it before throwing it aside in disgust.

[Morgoth]

that book with a dragon knights and the dragons could move back and forth in time. By god it was awfull

[Cause]

Priestess of the white
Anything by feist-cant tolerate his works, I dont get how people can like them
Stormcaller

[Dr Trouble]

Vellum by Hal Duncan

I don't care what anyone says, absolute rubbish.

[Karsa Orlong]

Cause;143007 said:

Stormcaller

Hey Cause, before you burn that book, send it my way, will you?!

A book that i'd burn is Harlequin's Dance by Tom Arden. It's simply crap-tastic.

[Tattooed Hand]

I got hooked on Katherine Kurtz's books when I was in junior high school and generally enjoy them. But in the King's Service was so incredibly boring. It focused on girls women as wives and mothers. I have a thing for female main characters, so I've seen this handled in different ways. The first time an author's lack of imagination offended me. How boring. It's like visiting my friends who have gotten married and had kids and think social death is an inevitable outcome, not just one way to do it.

[polishgenius]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I just found them so boring.

Although the Ring of Five Dragons by Eric Van Lustbader is worse. Painful, simply put.

[Illuyankas]

A Pern book eh, Morgoth?

And the free Maggie Furey book I was sent. Damn, it sucks.

[Mane of Chaos]

Does anyone really burn bad books?:eek:

[Arkmam]

Mane of Chaos;143122 said:

Does anyone really burn bad books?:eek:

Yes.

Earthsea - LeGuin. Eat fire.

[amphibian]

I worked in a bookstore for a summer and I've got a bad book disposal story to tell:

The cheap paperbacks with the flimsy covers and thin pages are known as "mass market" paperbacks. When they don't sell, like all books, they get returned for a refund. The return policy of mass market books is to tear off the cover, stick it in a box until you've got about a hundred or so for one company specifically, and then mail the cover back to the wholesaler, who will refund you when they get the covers.

The bookstore is stuck with the rest of the book. These things pile up and are usually recycled or thrown out. One lady would take about fifty or sixty of them every winter and throws them in the back of her pickup truck.

If she ever gets stuck in the snow, she goes around back and throws a few mass market books under the tires for traction.

So burning them is probably more respectful than this method, but if it irks you, it irks you.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

polishgenius;143094 said:

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I just found them so boring.

.

Blasphemy! I fart in your general direction!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

amphibian;143212 said:

I worked in a bookstore for a summer and I've got a bad book disposal story to tell:

The cheap paperbacks with the flimsy covers and thin pages are known as "mass market" paperbacks. When they don't sell, like all books, they get returned for a refund. The return policy of mass market books is to tear off the cover, stick it in a box until you've got about a hundred or so for one company specifically, and then mail the cover back to the wholesaler, who will refund you when they get the covers.

The bookstore is stuck with the rest of the book. These things pile up and are usually recycled or thrown out. One lady would take about fifty or sixty of them every winter and throws them in the back of her pickup truck.

If she ever gets stuck in the snow, she goes around back and throws a few mass market books under the tires for traction.

So burning them is probably more respectful than this method, but if it irks you, it irks you.

so that's why some books have a warning that if it is missing the cover it is stolen goods. I see.

[Mane of Chaos]

I'd never burn a book, no matter how bad it is.