JUDGMENT IS UPON US! BURNING This Year's Worst Books :3 (Everything I read in 2024)

[@badlywritenbyhuman]

I like your dinosaur shirt!

[@mutate34]

I've been meaning to read "Blankets" for 20 years in that "I have to have read every important graphic novel" thing, but I always put it off. Relieved I don't need to bother now as it's long and expensive

[@tropetrinitytrilogy8533]

I read the Spook's Apprentice s a kid and really liked it! I definitely want to pick up some of these books you like! I've owned "My Dark Vanessa" for years and still need to read it. I also have "Bringer of Light" and "Order of the Spirits" you gave me and need to read! Also, talking to you about "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" and "We Need to Talk About Kevin" before has already put them on my list The most surprising one to me is "The Woman They Could Not Silence" that sounds so interesting, and I'm hoping to read more nonfiction!

[@spookyfirst9514]

49:42 Puppy hugs! ❤

[@spookyfirst9514]

16:17 Wasn’t that the Supernatural Fanfiction book? Wow, I barely remember that one. 🤣

[@TheHaggisInquisition]

I thought 'sold' needed a much better and less dramatic ending, but also needed better scene setting as it's hard to really 'place' onself where it is taking place. The Anne Frank rippoff was offensively bad in so many ways, even when it came to the portrayal of how the state persecuted people which I thought was terribly done. I think it should have just been left in the depths of Wattpad alongside all the other terrible fan fiction. I also have another criticism of Sam Fennah's book - it's far too long for a first published book at 900 pages.

[@spookyfirst9514]

40:49 Gavin de Becker is the author’s name. (I think I recommended this one along with Anna Salter’s book.) Gavin and Anna know each other, he was instrumental in convincing her to write her books. (I can see how Gavin would be a hit or miss for you. He’s got that whole ‘I’ve seen some bad sh!t’ thing going on.)

[@KirkpattieCake]

I still appreciate the recs. I think the funniest thing is reading memoirs/opinions from feds, you can always tell they were feds from their attitudes lol.

[@spookyfirst9514]

Overall: I hated Bringer of Light until I did a deep dig into how the author put it together. The research on the quotes alone was more fun than reading the book. (For me.) It was a Magnum Opus for the author, and while I don’t agree with any of the points or philosophies high lighted by the story, I had to take my hat off to him. It’s well done and thought out in a way I don’t often see. (The whole “AI will doom us but I will master AI and make it serve me” angle made the overall story sting: because the entire thing was cobbled together from an AI based off the protagonists own memories and what it could cobble together or steal from the enemy AI…a subtle mind f*ck.) Here’s to a New Year of books you want to read and share.

[@spookyfirst9514]

45:36 I was amazed when a writer I’ve gotten newsletters from for years gave Fourth Wing a gushing endorsement. (My love for dragons must have peaked after I finished Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. Even in my own stories, dragons are ineffable, dangerous, and to be avoided at all costs.)

[@TheRQpaints]

I respect your opinion on the Rippa books, so I want to clarify that my comment is not meant to suggest you are wrong; it's simply another reader's perspective. I have been reading comics since the 1970s, and I believe "Alpacore" by Chuck Dixon could have easily been published as a DC comic. It reads like a prototype Justice League of America story, and Dixon effectively incorporates all the tropes that comic readers have come to expect over the years. While I won't delve into specifics about all the books, I do see an improvement compared to the mess that was "Isom 1."

[@KirkpattieCake]

There's no wrong personal opinion, so no worries dude. Personally, I thought Alphacore was weaker than ISOM, but I already laid out my opinions fully in those video reviews and how disappointed I was in general. Worse to me though is that talking about any of the Rippaverse comics eventually felt like a waste of time for how fans of the creators viewed everything as a political attack or allyship. I'm glad people enjoyed those if they did, I personally didn't, and I didn't even benefit from good convo by other people who read them so I don't intend to pursue them any further. I hope the creator and his company serve you and those who seek out his content for what you're looking for.

[@TheRQpaints]

@@KirkpattieCake I kept my comment as safe as possible becuase as someone who was in CG I know the attacks that come from talking positively about any Rippa comic. And I know many Rippa fans do the same if you say something negative about a Rippa comic. Sadly the biggest problem I see is that both fan groups allow their side to tell them what comics are good without checking for themselves.

[@vanyavanilla7108]

I accept this day late christmas gift.

[@spookyfirst9514]

I may use that four level system on my own bookshelves. I’ve got some real stinkers I need to re-home.