Maven (famous)Dec 9

Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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Show threadkdcd
My father recommended The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson and I fucking hated it. The main character is an awful person. I was waiting for someone to kill him the whole book
Dec 9 at 11:32pmWeb
Show threadjordanlundDec 10
That was a TOUGH read. It came up in my fantasy kick back in the 80s, so many other better books to read!
Show thread2deckDec 10
I can sympathise, but it’s interesting as one of the only books to depict a truly terrible person being summoned to a fantasy world. IMO it has quite the slow burn character arc over the series.
Show threadgramieDec 10

That is actually one of my favorite books of all time. Well, at least the first two trilogies. After that, I don’t think he really had much to say.

What worked for me was a protagonist who was in many ways a terrible human being, but actually thought about the morality of his actions, and respected the values of the secondary characters.

It was also the first book I ever read that required me to keep a dictionary nearby. I was only about 16 when I read the first book, but I enjoyed having my vocabulary expanded.

Some people probably dislike the overwhelming amount of similes and heavy use of metaphor, but it made me sit back and think about what I was reading, rather than just burning through it.

Show threadThe_vDec 10
He was truly a terrible character. I got fed up with the asshat and never finished it.
Show threadmoopetDec 11
I didn’t finish it either, but to be fair him being an awful person is kind of the point.