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'How to write with style'

me, clueless thinking its going to be a good resource to help with my fiction writing

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So heres why the USSR was evil

bro who asked

I tried reading two different series from Stephen R. Donaldson, and it seemed to me he was somehow unable to write a book without a horrific rape. I just stopped reading the first book in each case because I felt like they were salacious and hateful.

A fan translation of the Redo of Healer light novel.

If you know you know.

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I am usually a huge SciFi fan, but I like the genre for it's ability to reflect on humanity by extrapolating on current technologies/trends or comparing our culture to unique alien ones.

Revelation Space was technobabble and descriptions of weapons for pages upon pages, and it was totally devoid of any philosophy or reflection on humanity. I never DNF a book, but this one I almost gave up on.

The third Twilight book ended by dumping everything which was built up to in the previous book out.

The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Its technically a novella but still. Hated it.

Tom Sawyer. I don't think i'd hate it as much if I read it today, but having to read it in middle school was a bitch

I tend to quit books if I don't find them very good. One I did finish that I fucking hated was The Girl on the Train. All of the characters were fucking insufferable.

Worst book I've quit is Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. What a horrible book!

Worst I've finished is Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, immediately followed by Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I'll throw in a special mention for The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby. All terrible books that I finished only because they were required reading in school.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova