Stories/ Books you won't read and why?

[Kantarii]

Are there certain books or stories out there you won't read? If so, why?

There is an entire line of books dedicated to "for dummies".


Personally, I find that line of books insulting to even consider reading. To even pick one of those books up to read suggests that the reader is a dummy. If I wasn't clear and knowledgable about a topic, I would seek the information elsewhere than from a book that blantantly suggests I am a "dummy" to be reading it in the first place. Just my thoughts.

 

[lovecraft68]

I can't knock the dummy books, its how I learned excel

I also don't find it offensive, its meant as a joke and back in time people had a sense of humor and did not take everything as an insult.

I'm finding that I no longer read BDSM stories on sites like this or the paid market. If its recommended to me by someone I trust, I'll read it. Otherwise I have no desire to read rape porn under the guise of BDSM or the same story line over and over again, and those two things comprise a sadly large amount of what's out there today.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't pick up medical sob story books.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't pick up medical sob story books.

I see what you did there. Doubt anyone else did, but that's the fun of things like that right?

 

[CyranoJ]

"Techno-thrillers." The fantasy literature of the kind of assholes who thought the Iraq War was a fun idea.

I used to be a big SF/fantasy reader many moons ago but less so now, a lot of those shelves look like a wasteland in the bookstores these days.

 

[EverLux]

I can't knock the dummy books, its how I learned excel

I've been meaning to learn Excel for a while, so that book is now in my Amazon cart

Also, the first book on editing I read was Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies. The author explains things beautifully, and there are even lines I laughed out loud at.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've been meaning to learn Excel for a while, so that book is now in my Amazon cart

Also, the first book on editing I read was Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies. The author explains things beautifully, and there are even lines I laughed out loud at.

I bought a good self editing book a few years ago...Can't remember the name and its on my desk at work. I'll pm you the title Monday if I remember it.

 

[Misshotndeep]

Twilight. Not only are vampires not suppose to shimmer like disco balls in the sun but the lame anxiety ridden excuse for one was nerve raking enough to watch when I was tricked into watching to first movie. Made me want to drive a steak though Bella's heart to stop the story line.

 

[babslovesherdaddy]

The for dummies books actually say a reference for the rest of us. They are quite informative

 

[TransPunkPrincess]

My taste in books is super eclectic and doesn't really follow a pattern, right now I'm bouncing between a biography of Genghis Khan and a book about ornamental moss gardening. But here goes.

I won't read any BDSM erotica that isn't specifically recommended to me by someone I trust. I have a huge laundry list of issues with noncon, which is what almost all of it ends up being, and men dominating women is not my thing.

I'm super-leery of dystopian thrillers anymore because in theory it's like my favorite genre but so many of them end up being Randroid polemics

I'm even more leery of high fantasy because it usually turns out to be Tolkien fanfiction

And don't even get me started on contemporary non-scholarly books about polytheism. I can count the ones worth reading on two fingers.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Any book about kiddie porn, ghosts, werewolfs, vampires, gay male, supposed to be scary thrillers or any book that's supposed to funny.

The first is just plain sick. The next three are ridiculous. The next just as a yuck factor for me. I find thriller not all that thrilling and funny books aren't all that funny. Now I have read books that were funny, they weren't billed as a comedy though.

None of what I listed are interesting, to me.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Modern "Fantasy". The 13-hundredth retelling of the Arthurian myth? Maybe with aliens this time, for a sick twist? Or the next romantic vampire fanfic yawnfest? No, thanks. The only halfway current series I'm reading is "A Song of Ice and Fire", because it's more visceral than "The Wheel Of Time" my wife adores

What happened to all the Elrics or Fafhrds or Conans or Dai-Sans or Tarl Cabots? Dragonriders? Ringworlders? Or all the Xanth madness?

Fuck, I'm getting old.

@Zeb_Carter: Hi, old friend. Have some Discworld. That should change your mind about "funny". Just sayin'.

 

[Kantarii]

Any book about kiddie porn, ghosts, werewolfs, vampires, gay male, supposed to be scary thrillers or any book that's supposed to funny.

The first is just plain sick. The next three are ridiculous. The next just as a yuck factor for me. I find thriller not all that thrilling and funny books aren't all that funny. Now I have read books that were funny, they weren't billed as a comedy though.

None of what I listed are interesting, to me.

I can respect that. I write transvestite stories that don't really follow the "normal" standard of what is found on this site for the most part. I have written a ghost story that I can personally relate to, in part, being a transvestite. Everyone has their own tastes in what they choose to read. Nothing wrong with that either.

 

[Kantarii]

Twilight. Not only are vampires not suppose to shimmer like disco balls in the sun but the lame anxiety ridden excuse for one was nerve raking enough to watch when I was tricked into watching to first movie. Made me want to drive a steak though Bella's heart to stop the story line.

If I'm going to watch a vampire movie, it's gotta be along the lines of "Underworld". Twilight come nowhere close to that in my eyes.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Anything about Ted Bundy. I hate that guy.

 

[legerdemer]

Are there certain books or stories out there you won't read? If so, why?

There is an entire line of books dedicated to "for dummies".


Personally, I find that line of books insulting to even consider reading. To even pick one of those books up to read suggests that the reader is a dummy. If I wasn't clear and knowledgable about a topic, I would seek the information elsewhere than from a book that blantantly suggests I am a "dummy" to be reading it in the first place. Just my thoughts.

That's what I thought too. Until I read one about computer stuff, and I changed my mind. Now I translate the "dummies" into "people who don't want to get bogged down in the technocrap and babble and just want to get something done."

Literature-wise: 50 Shades, Twilight, very hard sci fi (see the technobabble issue above).

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Modern "Fantasy". The 13-hundredth retelling of the Arthurian myth? Maybe with aliens this time, for a sick twist? Or the next romantic vampire fanfic yawnfest? No, thanks. The only halfway current series I'm reading is "A Song of Ice and Fire", because it's more visceral than "The Wheel Of Time" my wife adores

What happened to all the Elrics or Fafhrds or Conans or Dai-Sans or Tarl Cabots? Dragonriders? Ringworlders? Or all the Xanth madness?

Fuck, I'm getting old.

@Zeb_Carter: Hi, old friend. Have some Discworld. That should change your mind about "funny". Just sayin'.

Hey, BJ, good to see you around. I'll have a look, but lately funny just isn't funny to me.

 

[PennLady]

I'll add some support for the Dummies books

I won't read Twilight either. I tried once, when it was so popular. When books or movies and the like are that popular, I usually want to check it out for myself to see if it's worth the hype, to see what everyone's on about. So one day at the library with my daughter, I took Twilight and sat down to skim it.

Ugh.

I also won't read 50 Shades. Again, read a little because of the hype. As they say these days, I noped out of that real fast. Like Twilight (not surprising, giving 50 Shades' origins) I could not stand the heroine, the writing style, the poor writing, etc.

Mostly I will give anything a try. It's rare that there's a genre or author that I wouldn't at least try reading part of to see what I think of it. Not even whether I like it, just what I think of it. On a site like Lit, yes, there are genres (incest, LW) I won't read but in part it's because when I first found the site, I did check some of them out and learned they weren't for me.

 

[GoldenCojones]

outside of erotica, I read everything I can. When I read erotica I mainly focus on my kink (Strong willed, intelligent, sexually liberated women who don't conform to society's stupid little mind games)

I absolutely won't read rape, non-con, incest, or ped. Nope, just not gonna do it.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

I was sort of rolling along with Twilight--certainly much better than FSOG--until this scene where Bella is "trying" to read Jane Austen (because she has to, for a class) but she just can't concentrate because whatshisname is just so cute. That was it. Annoyed me to no end. I LOVED Jane Austen at that age, and I didn't appreciate the message. Who cares about great literature, when there are cute boys!

Tossed Stephanie Meyer and reread Pride and Prejudice instead.

 

[lovecraft68]

I was sort of rolling along with Twilight--certainly much better than FSOG--until this scene where Bella is "trying" to read Jane Austen (because she has to, for a class) but she just can't concentrate because whatshisname is just so cute. That was it. Annoyed me to no end. I LOVED Jane Austen at that age, and I didn't appreciate the message. Who cares about great literature, when there are cute boys!

Tossed Stephanie Meyer and reread Pride and Prejudice instead.

It stands to reason you would like twilight better than FSOG seeing Twilight was the model James stole from, but with none of the feel as she was rewriting what she copy pasted.

The scene you're talking about? That was "Anastasia" through all three books, a simpering 14 year old who was allegedly 22

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Someday I will force myself to read it, just to say I know what it's about.

No, can't do it.

It stands to reason you would like twilight better than FSOG seeing Twilight was the model James stole from, but with none of the feel as she was rewriting what she copy pasted.

The scene you're talking about? That was "Anastasia" through all three books, a simpering 14 year old who was allegedly 22

 

[EverLux]

I was sort of rolling along with Twilight--certainly much better than FSOG--until this scene where Bella is "trying" to read Jane Austen (because she has to, for a class) but she just can't concentrate because whatshisname is just so cute. That was it. Annoyed me to no end. I LOVED Jane Austen at that age, and I didn't appreciate the message. Who cares about great literature, when there are cute boys!

Tossed Stephanie Meyer and reread Pride and Prejudice instead.

lol But she loved Jane Austen, too! She'd read that anthology many times before. But as all ladies know, brooding, sexy, occasionally emotionally abusive guys can be very distracting

It stands to reason you would like twilight better than FSOG seeing Twilight was the model James stole from, but with none of the feel as she was rewriting what she copy pasted.

The scene you're talking about? That was "Anastasia" through all three books, a simpering 14 year old who was allegedly 22

The first time I read FSoG, there were about 100 moments when I thought, "Really??" I knew the Twilight series like the back of my hand, and I was shocked that what James wrote wasn't considered plagiarism. I mean, it's technically not, but it should be.

Also, instead of the best male friend character being Native American, James made him Hispanic. I guess she figured they were both brownish, so...

 

[Hypoxia]

If it's popular, I'll probably avoid it. I'm pervy that way.

 

[Kantarii]

If it's popular, I'll probably avoid it. I'm pervy that way.

I thought I was the only one that avoided the crap on the best sellers list and stands. So glad I'm not alone Kant