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Marie Silver

Topic: Least Favourite Fantasy Book

One of mine is 'The Wind Singer' by William Nicholson. I read it some years ago and admittedly I'm not target audience but I thought the book was totally boring. There were some good bits but the middle droned on and on and I stopped reading it. I did evantaully finish it six months or somthing later but I had to grit my teeth to do it. My sister, target audience, hated it just as much as me.

Somehow I don't think I'll be reading the sequels.

~Marie Silver~

#1 May 14th 2007, 2:53am

Girlbrainiac

The Wooden Sword by... Don't Remember. The ending sucks, and so does a lot of the middle, lol.

Girlbrainiac

#2 Jun 02nd 2007, 12:41pm

X-Fantasy59

My least favorite fantasy book would have to be 'Wizard's First Rule' by Terry Goodkind. It had a good plot at the beginning, yet there were far too many sexual scenes in which the main character sleeps with the woman who is torturing him, completely forgetting about his girlfriend. And yes, he sleeps with her willingly.

#3 Jun 25th 2007, 8:19pm

Estrella Drage

There are a lot of books that are messes and a lot that are amazing. I don't really have least favorite books.

#4 Jun 28th 2007, 10:00pm

NthNinth

I hate the sword of shannara series, I couldn't even finish it.

as a reply to another post, I love the sword of truth books (wizards first rule is the first) around book 8 they get boring and preachy, but I loved the first 7 give or take a few chapters.

#5 Jul 08th 2007, 10:33pm

Estrella Drage

That's too bad, because I think the shannara books are the best straight up.

#6 Jul 09th 2007, 11:53am

Moneta

I admit, wind singer was pretty bad, but the sequels were awesome!! Slaves in the mastery was sooo good!! then firesong was really good too.

#7 Aug 10th 2007, 5:34pm

Moneta

I LOVE THE SHANNARA SERIES!! *SOBS* The second one about the tree was the best!! Go Shea!! I dont like terry goodkind that much, a bit too mature for me. I was reading then...sex scenes? ...? couldnt even get away from the book fast enough. It was like my friend readin that Highlander book, she thought it was like *The kind must die* then it ended not being that, but being a whole bunch of sex scenes chained up together. *shivers*

#8 Aug 10th 2007, 5:39pm

Miriam Doyle

Least favourite book...hmm, well, aside from Eragon, there is no book I hate more in the world than...Eldest. The reason I hate it more than the prequel is because it shows blatant ignorance of the amount of criticism the author received through the equally bad prose and still robotic characters featured in it. Also, it seemed to be mainly filled with how awesome the elves were and how hot Arya is and how seriously desperate and two-dimensional Eragon is getting. And Paolini's conspiculously wedged-in philosophies on life -.-

EDIT: I used inconspicuous when it should've been conspicuous :(

#9 Aug 10th 2007, 6:23pm . Edited Aug 12th 2007, 7:00am

Marie Silver

I can't stand it when authors blatenly throw their personal moral or philosophies at the reader; I want to read the books to enjoy them, not to learn a lesson. It's just really annoying.

~Marie Silver~

#10 Aug 10th 2007, 6:28pm

Moneta

But books are for authors to tell a message. If a book was made for only entertaining others, id say that book was a failure.

#11 Aug 10th 2007, 6:44pm

Marie Silver

Books are written for entertainment purposes and for the authors to tell a story not a message. As far as I know there is no message in Harry Potter, at least one that hasn't been shoved down the readers throat. I hardly think that books that entertain are a failure, especially children's books.

~Marie Silver~

#12 Aug 11th 2007, 7:50am

Evil Minion Number 2

The minion believes all written books have some chance of showing the author's morals, and the minion is alright with it. What the minion dosn't like is when an author turns a story into a fable, and, as Marie Silver states it, "shoves morals down someone's throat."

But, sometimes, people just read too much into books that are written for entertainment. And that can get infuriating also.

#13 Aug 11th 2007, 11:34am

awilla the hun

Personally? Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill. The first one in the series (Cry of the Icemark) was a good yarn with interesting characters. My image of General Scipio Bellorum is still that of The Duke of Wellington from the Sharpe TV series. It contained fights, adventure, magic, and something approaching romance. Overall, a good book.

Blade of Fire, however... ugh. It was exactly the same. The overly politically correct Vikings who formed the heroes seemed to be multiplied ("I know!Lets have some black guys too! Oh what fun this writing thing is!") all the heroes drank, cracked dirty jokes, were salt of the earth, royal, master swordsmen and so on. The villans were the same, but without dirty jokes, salt of the earth qualities and so on. It was a mistake for us to know who the evil witch was from the start (not that it would have been difficult to guess.) But the above is not the worst part.

For a series depicting a grand military struggle of a desperate band of allies from all races, werewolves, vampies and so on against an evil empire (yawn), the battle scenes have massive holes in them. The allies all seem to get reinforcements just in the nick of time. The Imperial troops use matchlocks. Why? They prove to be so utterly useless time and again, against allied bowmen. Surely they could be using bows, if they were from a huge empire which had all these massive resources. The pike and swordsmen are always beaten by the allied housecarles and monsters. Has Hill never realised that pikemen were, if allowed to attack on one flank, the best assault troops in the world? And the airships... when the werewolves are used as air raid sirens, you just imagine David Niven and co. going up in their Spitfires- sorry, Vampires- to face the not so evil when you think about it foe.

Comments would be appreciated.

#14 Nov 03rd 2007, 8:27am

Shady Spiral

One of my least favorites was The Warrior Heir by....someone. But its not that I hated the book, I actually sort of liked it, but it wasn't very good. I'm one of those weird people who can enjoy a book even if its horrible.

#15 Jan 11th, 5:40pm

Shady Spiral

#16 Jan 11th, 5:40pm

Shady Spiral

i don't know why that posted twice, but uh ok

#17 Jan 11th, 6:52pm

awilla the hun

Can you explain a bit more about its godawfulness, perhaps?

#18 Feb 26th, 12:13pm

NotMyShoes

I read The Warrior Heir, and I still can't decide whether I like it or not. Parts of it were very well done, such as the prologue, but now that I think about it, much of it was just plain stupid. The romance was terribly done, there were too many things that were remarkably convenient, and the author clearly didn't bother to learn anything about soccer before placing two of her main characters on their school's varsity soccer teams. I think it had potential as an idea, which gave me a slight appreciation of it, but somewhere it all went awry.

#19 Jul 03rd, 1:40pm

Shady Spiral

Yeah, I thought the romance was terrible, too. I actually don't remember much about it now (that shows how unremarkable it is since I didn't read it that long ago) but I do remember it being terribly awkward. The dialogue didn't sound natural. The characters were unbelievable. It just wasn't very good.

#20 Jul 10th, 5:51pm

capriccioso

I'm with whoever didn't like the Shannara series--such a Tolkein rip-off! Yes, they were probably good by themselves, but I just couldn't get past the striking similarities to the Lord of the Rings

#21 Jul 12th, 10:57pm

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