My top 10 most hated books (2020 update)

[@AsdfghjkL-lv6kb]

There are two things I like 1.books 2. people who are mad at something

[@theaceofspace6110]

On this youtube channel you have both

[@ellafever8253]

Very yes

[@abcdef27669]

Me too. And I'm out of books.

[@AsdfghjkL-lv6kb]

@@abcdef27669 My recommendations: The alchemist (Soft story, ghibli vibes) Six of crows (Ya, interesting character, not high Literatur) Lost boy (Peter pan au, a lot of deaths, I was mad at the end) 1984 (not a great story, but I love the message of course)

[@CourtOfWinter]

@@abcdef27669 Do you have some mad people left over, or do you need new ones?

[@etherealsalad2698]

TBH Allegiant was terrible but Tris' death was hilarious. They hype up this whole death serum thing so much and how she's gotta beat it and then someone just walks in and fucking shoots her. It was amazing

[@muda1312]

We sure the book isn't a comedy?

[@negative6442]

Wait is that actually what happens? That's incredible

[@lorieslori8051]

@@negative6442 Yup, that’s exactly what happens. They hype it up how special her genes are to withstand the death serum and then she gets shot

[@lunarmuse5918]

Part of me wants you to tackle Empress Theresa and handbook for mortals, the other part wants you to save your sanity

[@natseritt6252]

That would be awesome

[@AaronRotenberg]

I'm kind of sick of those two at this point. I know there are other similar terrible books out there that haven't reached KZbin fame yet, just waiting for their day in the harsh, unrelenting limelight.

[@lunarmuse5918]

@@AaronRotenberg that is understandable

[@Amsayy]

No, he needs to tackle the ultimate: Modelland by Tyra Banks

[@lunarmuse5918]

@@Amsayy huh, I haven’t heard of that one... would I regret looking it up

[@tkay-1313]

just got a rush of fear that the princess bride was going to be on the list when the intro began OMG

[@shiny_cheyenne]

Same, I'm so glad 😭

[@demitwice]

the princess bride is the definition of iconic

[@Graycata]

Admittedly the *BOOK* is pretty "meh"

[@rurihime4965]

I was almost mad thinking he would put it

[@peskycritter79]

@@Graycata I hated the book but love the movie haha! Though Buttercup is the worst and does nothing in both

[@SirEriol]

You should definetly try A Court of Thorns and Roses. It's like... 1000+ pages that are only there so Sarah J. Maas can slopily type five sex scenes with just one hand and still charge money for it.

[@MrDoot-hj2ir]

This is legit one of the worst sagas I've ever read.

[@Hungarycloud]

One of the worst book series I have ever read!

[@Zulf85]

I genuinely tried after hearing some slate the entire series. I went in with an open mind hoping to be surprised, but every sentence has the Same. Damn. Structure. I just couldn't

[@SirEriol]

@@Zulf85 "I couldn't believe it-couldn't fathom it. He was darkness made man, undescribable, yet alluring. He was night and fire and manliness made man, but still more than man, more than fae, more than anything I could ever describe. Like, EVER. His penis-No, his club _burrled_ inside of me, destroying me and pulling me apart, while at the same time making me whole again. A single teardrop left my eye- Was it because of the pain, or because of the unfathomable pleasure? No adjectives could describe it, but I will still try, because it was strong and rough and gentle all the same". I dislike Sarah Janet Maas so, so much.

[@lazarusrex5015]

@@SirEriol oh my god did she actually write that?

[@Aloemancer]

New Moon's spot on the list is a fixed point in the heavens that everything else orbits around

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

More like a permanent billboard in the City of Dis

[@larsnyman2455]

More of a sun than a new moon

[@heartache5742]

@@larsnyman2455 dude the sun moves around in the sky

[@heartache5742]

@Koby Cossins the fixed point is the polaris star

[@heartache5742]

@Koby Cossins but from the earth, the heavens (astronomy's object of inquiry) spin around that axis i'm not sure whose attempts to be a smartass are worse, yours or mine

[@abcdef27669]

"The Author of Fifth Sorceress admitted he never read Fantasy novels before, and just decided to write one Fantasy story". Big "Bruh" Moment.

[@Notfallkaramell]

Sounds like me, an Amateur author. But I write a love novella. I never read love stuff. (The story is based on a real life friend and her heck of a love life, it's pure Drama. Well, was...)

[@quintusfabiusmaximus8700]

So like anime? Lol

[@basedeltazero714]

24:19 'Iraq actually had nuclear weapons, but hid them in Iran' My god, I lost my shit at this. It's so stupid.

[@amiir.1243]

I don't get it. Really what was that.😂

[@MFTQ]

Saddam, infamous anti iranian racist, hid his WMDs in Iran

[@heartache5742]

i mean they're one letter away

[@spaghettboy2173]

@@heartache5742 Genuis

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

@@MFTQ yes, because it was the last place people would look, but he got a little worried he them hide them in the United states

[@Liggliluff]

I'm glad you're keeping that introduction song through all these ages. It might not be good, but it's at least not too long.

[@PsychShrew]

Yeah the introduction song is fine. If I had one criticism for it, I'd say it's not very good. However it certainly makes up for it by not being too long.

[@pegah_di]

I once wrote on Goodreads that SJM is a kind of writer whose more fit to write erotica than fantasy, and her fans started ripping me apart. Thank you for echoing my thought, because I still stand by it and always will. She should have been a romance novelist. Her stories lack almost all the elements required in a fantasy novel, and if you take away the romance, really there isn't much left.

[@BlackCampariBlue]

She's not fit for writing good romance as well though, hell, not even not pure erotica smut. Even though I kinda enjoyed her A Book of Thorns and Roses series - knowing full well what I was going into - her smutty stuff quickly gets really over the top and boring, as she's tripping over herself to always increase the level of feels and sexiness in the sex parts. After the main love couple is together there's not that much interesting stuff about them anyway, as she did not develop complex characters and thus, complex relationships.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Even as a fan of her works, as my guilty pleasure books I have to agree. Her writing isn't all that rock solid. will i stop reading A Book of Thorns and Roses though? No. Its my guilty pleasure and I just want some silly escapism.

[@pegah_di]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 thank you for your honesty. I hope you enjoy reading them.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@pegah_di Yea. Sometimes some fans tend to forget we all have our own tastes and sometimes Fae banging just aint it. I also have some emotional attachment to them because they were actually the books that got my mum to start writing her own series.

[@pegah_di]

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 It would be great if more people were like you, and accepted that we all have different views. SJM books aren't really my type, but I'm glad that they give others joy and inspire them to write.

[@PhileasLiebmann]

Anybody else ever notice how James seems to get more eloquent and rhetorical the more worked up he gets in these free format, unscripted videos?

[@juniperrodley9843]

We should piss him off and then make him write a book--

[@turtleboy1188]

he was raised on nostalgia critic and channel awesome

[@Lucat_the_Nerd]

Imminent rage makes him verbose

[@MrKittyKwon]

Wait do people actually say you need to put aside your political opinions while judging a book? Do they read stuff like “The hunger games” and see no political elements in it? Do they see “The handmaid's tale” and go oh yeah this is nothing but a fantasy :) Definitely not a social commentary or anything. No wonder they can’t pick up problematic subtext.

[@jowysw]

Unfortunately, yes. There are people like that. Although usually they only say that when the politics they see are ones they disagree with. Because of course.

[@No_Ideas_Man]

Oh god yes. That's why people saying stuff like "The cyberpunk genre is has no inherently apolitical"

[@georgethompson1460]

I think there telling you to judge the book based on it's story and not the politics' it supports or you think it supports, for example someone saying lord of the rings is bad because it's anti-Semitic propaganda.

[@overlorde7526]

I mean on top of that Ben Shapiro is Ben Shapiro and you know he didn’t write the book without the intent to spread his questionable ideas

[@turtleboy1188]

yes

[@madiantin]

NEW MOON! Oh my gooooooooosh! My teen (at the time) daughter made me read the entire trilogy. I didn't want to, but I love her and she loved them so ok. So one Mother's Day weekend my husband took care of the kids and I read them all. I remember reading New Moon and being SO FREAKING ANNOYED I threw the book across the room....and usually I am in no way a book-thrower. I was *horrified* that these books were marketed to teens. There's soooo much really toxic and dangerous stuff in there. Your boyfriend, who wants to kill you, who watches you while you sleep, leaves you, so you get suicidal? I mean...WHAT? HOW IS THIS OK?

[@bielpr2009]

10:35: Something no one ever comments about the worldbuilding of divergence is how stupid most factions are. Dauntless is just a bunch of idiots with knives who kick out half their initiates each year just to have the best people to fight an enemy they don't know if it really exists; Candor is constructed around the judicial sistem despite the fact that they only need to use the serum of the truth on the few criminals they have to judge, and abnegation is about barelly feeding the homeless instead of just reintroduce them into society. Also who the fuck produces consumer goods? Amity makes food but what about clothes? and enegy? fuel? raw materials? Not to mention the genetic-experiments thing, which is a whole new level of stupid.

[@diegogutierrez1997]

I see that you get as annoyed as me as this stuff, may I hear your take on how it is nonsensical that WICKED is killing immune kids to test their response to fear in order to somehow cure a virus?, or maybe how in the last of us the actions of Joel are seen as "preventing world salvation", even when taking into account that it is not possible to create a vaccine for a fungus? (I mean, if you have one)

[@nabilamiah3814]

Another thing is the remedial workers. Janitors, cooks, security guards, etc.? Maybe they exist, but it's not specified. I only remember in Insurgent when a character was talking about her experience in Erudite and because she wasn't smart enough, she was told that she could either spend her life cleaning the research labs or leave. But that was the closest thing I remember to that type of job.

[@essneyallen6777]

@@diegogutierrez1997 wait what do you mean "not possible" to create a vaccine for a fungus? Is there an exception to "find an immunogenic molecule specific to the pathogen" in the case of eucaryotes?

[@patricijahojnik2254]

Ill put my unpopular opinion here: i liked how Divergents were special for being normal. Too much ya protagonists are lost royalty, the most powerful magic users on the planet, lovers of insanely strong vampires etc... I loved a protagonist that is special in her own way, but also perfectly average, i needed to see that as a teenage girl.

[@diegogutierrez1997]

@@patricijahojnik2254 I pay no mind to this idea, I actually really liked this concept as well. However, having a good concept in an awful story doesn't always save the end product, there's just too many things wrong overall.

[@Snp2024]

Man I love introduction song

[@noahhamilton9004]

It *is* very good, but it's not too long.

[@eave01]

Me too!

[@abcdef27669]

According to you description, Ben Shapiro's book is basically Atlas Shrugged Shippuden.

[@manie.8241]

I hate this

[@atosm8300]

I laughed at this. I hate you.

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

Nah thats the sword of truth series

[@whiteraven562]

@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 so does that make the ben shapiro book Boruto?

[@nikodaemon]

More like The Turner Diaries Light.

[@ruby71406]

“I *hate* this book, *hate* the author, and if you like this book, I kind of hate you too.” “And now for the verbal shoutout for my ten dollar and up patrons 😊🥰”

[@arashelahi2618]

As an Iranian, I choked laughing during the Ben Shapiro part

[@signodeinterrogacion8361]

I mean, Iran, Iraq, name's the same, like ,arab, also like, really hot, or something. Maybe the middle east or something..? Like IDK they're like friends or something? -Ben Shapiro

[@appleslover]

@@signodeinterrogacion8361 *definitely* friends with one another 👀

[@nowhereman6019]

I was MASSIVELY confused when he said that. Shapiro is a "political guy", so you would assume that he would at least know about Iranian-Iraqi relations, but no he just is that big of a braindead idiot.

[@takebacktheholyland9306]

@@appleslover "Surely being geographical neighbors make them automatically like one another!" *Looks at the balkans*

[@eepmeep8550]

Being able to do magic in all 5 elements rather than one could be shown to be far more difficult because the MC doesn't get to focus on one element and get really good at it. They'd have to do 5 times the work as everyone else to be at the top.

[@omnianimator8468]

Unless they have time magic too that's impossible. That or the quality of their training must be 5 times more effective...make the six. I say that because we all have the same amount of time in the day. Every second he spends on fire is one second he falls behind in the other elements assuming everyone trains as much as he or she does.

[@omnianimator8468]

I like you.

[@shizzleblitz]

I guess Aang had to do that as well before fighting the fire lord. Though we don't really get to see how he has to do training every day. Maybe that would've made for a good episode, Aang being so overwhelmed with training that he has no time for fun.

[@Theray0evan]

@@shizzleblitz except that episode exists in the 3rd season, when the time to confront the firelord is coming and Aang has nightmares and cant sleep and pressures himself to train a lot. Are you sure you watched the whole thing?

[@shizzleblitz]

@@Theray0evan wasn't that episode about how he was so close to fighting him that the thought scared him. He was restless and wanted to train more, not less. Unless you're talking about an episode i missed. In which case, sorry my bad.

[@niji8164]

Its always the teenage girl that starts a revolution in young adult books

[@brandonbernard1570]

Because Hunger Games.

[@giovanac4820]

It is ridiculous but, to be fair, teenage girls are a force to be reckoned with

[@onewholovesvenison5335]

Why can’t there be a young female protagonist that does NOT save the world, like an old-school dystopia?

[@niji8164]

@@onewholovesvenison5335 women authors

[@Varooooooom]

Just like in real life!

[@lilyvandrimmelen9437]

i never read Elixir but hearing you talk about it made me realize its like an exact combination of Fallen and Evermore.

[@Megafreakx3]

I actually remember reading part of the first book because, at first, the summary sounds good. But clearly turned into a whole different other book and quit.

[@lilyvandrimmelen9437]

@@Megafreakx3 it’s always so disappointing when that happens. That’s why I never start books anymore without making sure that the summary matches the story

[@cintiavargas6617]

I actually love fallen 😅 I wish the author had done something better with it though, it just kept making less and less sense as it went along :(

[@fabiopauli420]

Asking for that Warrior Cats review once again.

[@Roosheo]

Alternative title: 2020 not bad enough? Try /these/ books

[@voodoogroove8209]

Save the agony. Here they are: The 5th Wave, Twilight Saga New Moon, The Divergent Series Allegiant, Maximum Ride Forever, True Allegiance, Throne of Glass, The Fifth Sorceress, Elixir, Marked (A House of Night Novel,) and The Lovely Bones. Never read any of these, never will.

[@jaj404]

Thanks for the list, but a fair warning. Never read them. Please. Under no circunstances should you change your mind.

[@yanstein8464]

i think i tried to read marked when i was in my ya phase, but it was too boring and stupid even for the 13 year old me and i dropped in on the first chapter

[@shizzleblitz]

James how do you stay so dashing ya charming bastard.

[@wadribrab751]

Gay or bro?

[@shizzleblitz]

@@wadribrab751 nah i'm not gay. Dudes should be comfortable enough to compliment each other, yknow.

[@wadribrab751]

@@shizzleblitz okay yeah that comment was immature my bad

[@shizzleblitz]

@@wadribrab751 nah its cool.

[@TheKrazyLobster]

Okay. Someone stop the world. Did I just witness a civilized conversation on the internet? 2020 is really messed up

[@ZielonaPastela]

I kept expecting that one of Onision's books or Empress Theresa was going to be here. I think that people's videos start to merge in my head xd

[@NapaCat]

Norman Boutin's book is hilarious. His obsession with taking down and avenging every bit of criticism is just as, if not more so, interesting then his wish fulfillment power fantasy.

[@gasmonkey1000]

Maaan if James hated Throne of Glass and the Fifth Sorceress he's going to DESPISE Gor and the Sword of truth.

[@novaterra973]

To be fair, those two are infinitely despisable unless you adhere to their respective ideology.

[@billyalarie929]

If he hated Fifth Sorceress, I will take the plunge and watch this because absolutely NO ONE should like the Fifth Sorceress

[@billyalarie929]

@@novaterra973 and anyone who does is despicable. Don't @ me I'm not interested in arguments

[@gasmonkey1000]

@@novaterra973 The Fifth Sorceress and Gor? Oh yeah they're fucking foul. I know literal nazis who hate those two.

[@PowerSkiff12]

Lol wut.

[@minerman60101]

"It's so long and you can't escape it, that's why I hate throne of glass so [unskippable ad]"

[@ssik9460]

“Your list of your most hated books” “Sorry, OUR list of our most hated books” *Soviet Anthem Intensifies*

[@Max-vu3ns]

You aren't funny

[@ssik9460]

@@Max-vu3ns I know

[@J3Puffin]

@@Max-vu3ns debatable

[@nafeesahassan5469]

you are funny

[@fillername236]

you are funny

[@floraposteschild4184]

The Lovely Bones is an example of a book where the author can have important experience about what she's writing about, and STILL screw it up. Alice Sebold was the victim of a brutal rape when she was in college, and wrote a good book about it, Lucky. THAT'S the book that should be taught in school. Re. the family story, I get how she's going for realism and I like it, but as far as the supernatural element -- the more there is, the less it works.

[@JakeFish5058]

My week started off really well, then got reeeeally confusing/not good and now I have an hour long video to watch, so things are looking up! Thanks James!

[@jackbharucha1475]

How would one fake a police shooting?

[@J3Puffin]

It would probably involve at least one person who knows a cop or has some passable costumes.

[@ahalfemptyscarecrow5277]

"It doesn't make sense in context, either" Could legit be the name of your channel

[@heroofthewinds7765]

"Love septagon" James I believe at that point it's called a harem

[@manboy4720]

why are most of the protagonists always teenage girls? it's never someone old, or fat, or skinny, or anyone interesting at all. it's always a perfect teenage girl, who manages to keep her makeup on even when she's being shot at or set on fire or something.

[@actualconman7938]

It's because most of these are YA books, and that's their target audience. If James were a purveyor of bad crime novels, old, fat detectives would probably make up a majority of the protagonists he talks about.

[@madiantin]

I recommend to you Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. The sequels are to be avoided like the plague...but that book itself is absolutely fantastic. And the protagonist is neither young, pretty, nor skinny.

[@Theray0evan]

its like asking why the protagonists of Shonen Anime are always teenage boys. The answer is, the demographic towards its geared to

[@abcdxyz3921]

It's not always teenage girls, its teenage boys too. (Hp, percy, thomas etc) I just don't understand why they have to always be teenagers.

[@mycroftwatson6441]

@@abcdxyz3921 because the genre is literally called YOUNG ADULT. duh.

[@mirandar8933]

“Chapter 12, I have a baby and everything’s great.” Psh. It’s a JP book, more like chapter 112. But great to see an updated list that pretty much mirrors my list of hated books.

[@kingsadvisor18]

My prediction: Battlefield Earth, The Fifth Sorceress, and maybe a Terry Goodkind book will be added to the list Note: Mr. Goodkind has passed away recently. This is not a general disrespect and my condolences go out to his friends and family. Still gonna criticize his work in an honest way

[@benderc.moriarti3419]

Damn, he died?....I mean, he was far from a good fantasy novelist but he seemed young to me....RIP then.

[@Nova-il8qe]

@@benderc.moriarti3419 He died about a month ago I think

[@kayhaych05]

Damn. May he Rest In Peace

[@diegogutierrez1997]

I don't mean to be disrespectful to the man, but seeing how he poked fun at a dying man by praising how good and healthy his heart was, it is kind of like poetic justice that he had an untimely death. However, may his family find peace and pull through something that devastating.

[@DatBrasss]

Yeah, Terry was a massive asshole and his work was bad. But I still feel for his family.

[@samc4978]

Ugh, I was also forced to read The Lovely Bones in middle school. It was worth it though, because for a project about the book one of my classmates played Papa Roach 'Getting Away With Murder' in class and it was awkward as heck.

[@gingerkatherina]

Lovely Bones sounded a lot like a movie I've watched years ago so I googled it. It's actually the one 😱 I would've never thought that the source material could be bad because I really enjoyed the movie especially because the killer plot line was kind of exiting till his end. I'm kind of shocked about the sex scene you mentioned. She is 14 😱. Where did she get ideas like that? The movie was way more innocent with this plot. (Maybe the author tried to give her a "real first time" with someone she actually loved or something. It's really disturbing anyway.)

[@Morindacil]

Not to mention, she was raped when she was killed. So I had no idea what the author was thinking. Her experience with sex would have been a rape experience, so it seems illogical for her to want to have sex in the first place. She would have, realistically, feared it like the plague because of what happened to her.

[@gingerkatherina]

@@Morindacil That's true. I mean there are some cases that use it as a coping mechanism later on, but without any explanation it's really weird considering her age and background 🤔

[@g3lflings]

@@Morindacil She wrote that because that was what she experienced? The author managed to survive her own experience and was told by police that she was "lucky," hense the title of her autobiography. Suisie was basically a conduit for a story surrounding her personal experiences. That's where she "got it from." The story isn't supposed to be an action or a mystery- its a deconstruction of the grief process and what it often takes to move on.

[@allisont37]

Bless you. I had to read the lovely bones in middle school and I DESPISED it. I've never encountered another person who hated it! They all thought it was so deep and beautiful! Meanwhile I was rooting for the murderer to take everyone out so the book could end

[@robinmitchells]

I loved the Divergent series as I was reading it but the last book made me retroactively hate the series and get rid of the books as fast as I could. My dad, who also read them, has a theory that the last book was actually supposed to be multiple books, at least three (one explaining the backstory of the facility and Triss’s mom’s involvement, one of the main characters getting there and slowly finding out everything they knew in Chicago and how they deal with that new knowledge, and one for what turns into the main plot of the later part of the book as well as just wrapping up the series in general), but that her publishers wanted VR to wrap up the series so it would be a nice and neat trilogy so she just sloppily packed everything into one book and put it out.

[@samkathryn4825]

14:14 I have a conspiracy theory that the fourth movie was never going to happen; they just claimed it was so they could get away with keeping Tris alive. I mean, they included every part of Allegiant EXCEPT Tris’ death. That always felt pretty purposeful to me.

[@bookwizard23]

"I feel like the whole thing was typed with one hand" 😂😂😂

[@IsThatEtchas]

My favourite series of books is probably the Demonata series but in my top ten favourite books, The Lovely Bones is up there. I do accept the points you made though and especially regarding the Ray and Susie scene. I didn't read it like that the last time I read it, but I will reread and come to my own conclusions. I respect your opinion regardless of our different tastes.

[@o_obo6524]

I don't like how you treated that notification guy... he should get his own channel. Great vid from you ofc.

[@Conorp77]

I want to see top 10 favourite books, as hard as that would be.

[@thetwelfth9987]

James actually looks pretty good with ‘pageboy’ hair. Just saying, I know it has nothing to do with trash on paper.

[@xenotiic8356]

Dude, the long hair is _really_ working well for you. Good on ya!

[@ehtuanK]

the Wimp "I read Flowers in the Attic and it was kinda hot" vs the Chad "I read Lovely Bones and it was kinda hot"

[@pedroxqui]

Hi, Iran? Irak here... so... can I super quickly just hide this nuclear weapons on your backyard for a minute?... why?... oh, i have to clean here a second... Oh come on, don't be like that...

[@eyesack6845]

what the hell...

[@omnianimator8468]

...hmm...Sup...uha...what god no! What if my kids find it? Why do you even want to hide it?...Yes why...You just asked if you could hide it...Yes I will be like that! Irakians think we will hide their stuff especially since you still haven't given me back my Iranian barbeque grill you borrowed last week.

[@therejectionchronicles8925]

I don't often laugh out loud at book reviews, but holy hell that abortion line got me xD

[@rociomiranda5684]

I do love the Introduction Song.

[@lizadon0740]

Its good because its not to wrong.

[@sciencefantastic]

The Lovely Bones sounds like what I call tragedy porn. It’s designed to make you feel bad/sad/make you cry (see Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks). It’s so manipulative and it often has nothing of worth besides the aforementioned sad feels. It kinda disgusts me honestly that stuff exists and sells tons of copies.

[@JoeyAL863]

Every time he mentioned Flowers in the Attic I kept accidentally thinking of Flowers for Algernon and I was sooooo confused

[@feldspar1496]

50:50 "The only time he dies" It sounds funny

[@unknownguest4575]

when you started off with 5th wave i just KNEW I KNEW I WAS GONNA AGREE ON ALL OF THEM LMAO

[@prophetess.cassandra]

Dude, I could listen to you rant about bad books forever.

[@humblehive6502]

Ngl your initial description of the 5th sorcereress sounded great

[@nobody4248]

Fifth Sorceres sounds like something someone posted ao3.

[@overlorde7526]

I was wondering what happened with the Maximum Ride books. I was young when I read them, not much of a critic yet, but even then, I was like “what even???” There’s so many things that just happen and the books have no direction or goal. The first 3 were fine for what they are, but the next ones were god awful

[@thebushwhacker8496]

Didn’t get the notification but I’m here within a minute😂

[@Benthedad14]

Me too!

[@frostyenderman13]

You had to read The Lovely Bones for SCHOOL??? Man, and here I thought you just stumbled across that masterpiece of nonsense

[@Super-Skrull]

I read James Patterson's _Hawk_ this year, and it gave me thought-hemorrhoids.

[@maggiedean5691]

I need the tea. Give the worst points. I don't think I can read it...Not this time. Is it as bad as the other later books?

[@Super-Skrull]

@@maggiedean5691 The first quarter of the book, while somewhat flawed, _does_ get the reader interested in the premise, and I will say that it was mildly entertaining to see our main character meet up with the Flock and almost naturally bounce off their personalities with her own, so to speak. Then it proceeds to piss all that away with its mawkish-to-blunt and depthless explorations of the world, weird and almost mad libs character developments, cringe-provoking dialogue and character decisions, plot twists that had nothing of merit -- or basic existence -- on which to actually twist and instead just came out of the fucking abyssal nowhere void of space because fuck me and fuck you too, extreme and oddly-specific violence with little actual meaning behind the acts than to I guess give some form of 'entertainment' on par with the random vacuous action scenes of your average Michael Bay movie, a story so hurried and reckless that I had to infrequently put down the book and try to fill in the giant gaping holes left behind for me whilst rubbing my sore temples, a character giving the absolute worst and most contrived and wretchedly simple yet somehow successful crowd-inciting freedom speech I ever fucking read or heard anywhere in fiction or otherwise, and an ending so excruciatingly abrupt that the level of abject stupidity the writers surely expected me to be in order to have gotten as far as that messy wet fart of a climax made me violently misanthropic for a couple of days. Oh, and the fucking hawk that Hawk owns, that appears with her like some spirit familiar on the fucking cover of the fucking book and surely plays an instrumental part of... _some_ portion of the story, right? Don't hold your breath.

[@maggiedean5691]

@@Super-Skrull man. Sounds like a train wreak. I looked up the wiki and I'm like the fuck is this plot. Why is the bird so damn important. Why is anything happening? Why did we need this?

[@Super-Skrull]

@@maggiedean5691 _Hawk_ is, at its core, meant to be a story about an orphan reuniting with her long-lost family... and the fact that the family bit is barely touched upon -- and I mean *barely touched upon* -- in favor of exploring plot as erratic in its run as a child with ADHD and as weak in constitution as graphene is the real slippery slope the story chose to jump off. There's little I hate more than being cheated of the premise that invited me. Fuck that book. Fuck it. Fuck it.

[@maggiedean5691]

@@Super-Skrull the premise almost got me. I was going to read it until I remember I got burned last time.

[@twilightwisdom5139]

I read throne of glass and liked it but looking back on it I agree with a lot of the points made. One thing I really didn’t like it even back then was how the plot twists at the end always followed a formula leading up to the impossible moment then a plan that had most of the time zero foreshadowing is revealed. A good twist shouldn’t be seen a mile away but in hindsight you should be able to see where it started.

[@midnight5163]

This is the first time I heard someone echo my openion about the lovely bones. Thank you. Thank you so much.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 Also that girl who got raped at the end of the book was a lesbian. As a lesbian that was a horrifying thing to read.

[@Reed5016]

It makes people think that lesbians are only gay because we get assaulted or traumatized by men, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

[@voctur]

49:28 Back in my old university, someone called a fake bomb threat to get an exam postponed

[@garrick3727]

Great video. I haven't read any of these books, but I've read books that make me feel the same way and it's great seeing your reaction to them.

[@thanatonyxmoura]

James: There will never be anything worse than The Lovely Bones Steven Seagal: Hold my beer.

[@harumiya4309]

May I recommend Oninison's book. Haven't read it my self, but I heard is just frustrating to read.

[@Nintendo641200]

Well, for a mary-sue to happen. They must not be challenged like at all. Like, AT ALL

[@kclink1579]

My dream still hasn't come true of one of my books being in this list.

[@marcoasturias8520]

"It can happen that you may need to kill someone but there will never be a situation where you will need to rape someone!" I need this on a shirt...

[@hello99127]

When I was younger, I got fairly into the Maximum Ride manga. I never finished it, but I always intended to read the novels at some point. The more I hear about the novels, the more that intention vanishes.

[@newsystembad]

29:40 Actually, that's basically the plot of one of my favorite Weird Al songs "Jackson Park Express", wherein the singer has an increasingly absurd "conversation" with a woman he's sharing a bus ride with, entirely through body language. It's hilarious, I recommend a listen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIvZmIdqpbt2ldk

[@prophetess.cassandra]

Ben Shapiro's book sounds like one of Onision's garbage novels haha

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

I never understood why everyone loved James Patterson. But damn, if I didn’t find that character that’s blind very, very attractive as a kid when I saw the graphic novel.

[@samsalamander8147]

James Patersons chapters are short and easy to read for the layman. The chapters being so short makes the book go extremely fast. I have read a good Paterson book but I think it was a coauthor type thing where the protagonist in the book did not realize they were dead the whole book and they were in hell. I can not remember the name but it was surprisingly good for Paterson.

[@ultraprincesskenny6790]

James Patterson has an army of ghostwriters who write the books and he gives the guideline of the plot. I heard the middle school books were decent

[@lizadon0740]

@@ultraprincesskenny6790 the first one was good but I dont think we needed sequels.

[@NapaCat]

Bill Clinton in his and James Patterson's bastard-child novel had a literal president self-inserting... as a president. God that book was weird.

[@aaaah540]

@@NapaCat I'd love to see a review of it lol

[@sanguine2552]

Hey liked the video! Just have one suggestion: keep the cover of the book up over your shoulder while you’re talking about it. It’s a long video and if you lose track of which one you’re talking about it, you pretty much only said the titles once so it’s hard to figure out what book series you’re talking about. Other than that pretty good! Thanks for the content

[@NapaCat]

My worst book series is the Waterfire Saga. It contains Deep Blue, Rogue Wave, Dark Tide, and Sea Spell. God, it's awful. Another contender is Glass Arrow. A dystopian where females are sex slaves, and the lead is an independent girl who gets captured. It tries too hard to be feminist that it fails. Unlike the stupendous flop of Waterfire Saga, Glass Arrow isn't even fun to read. It's a boring slog from page 1.

[@GOFFBITZH666]

OH GOD I FORGOT WATERFIRE LMFAOOOO

[@alexsimpson7289]

Finally the first comment, love your videos James. Cheers from the UK

[@paysonoberg-higgins4748]

I watched your Rick Riordan video explaining why Percy Jackson was better then the Harry Potter books a while back, i recently came back to watch it again and found your channel. You have a great way of putting your videos together and they are very interesting.

[@Notfallkaramell]

I checked the description for "Flowers in the attic". I regret it, wow, dark and sad.

[@jeonghansupremacist]

I just googled Flowers in the Attic and WHAT THE HELL

[@gensaikawakami341]

What? What happened?

[@dana8503]

@@gensaikawakami341 it's the 80s version of twilight...but with incest. I kinda loved them when I was a teen. It's trashy melodrama

[@zhyarjasim]

Very good points on thos books. Also that berserk poster in the background looks beautiful .

[@aug1014]

The maximum ride series broke my heart as a kid. I was so upset with the last few books and the ending really upset me

[@kieravermeal9127]

47:19 Have you by any chance read Empress Theresa?

[@jacencade4019]

"It all revolves around her" This reminds me of a scene in amazing world of gumbal when Analise informs Gumbal and Darwin that there is a world outside of themselves. And that's how they introduce a new character to the audience. And set up the episode. Prior to it, the whole show never left gumbals lense. And that scene showed you see as gumbal perceives. So you can centralize the plot around the Mc, but I understand your point. It is self absorbed. Which is why it worked for gumbal, since his character is self absorbed and we are his tag alongs.

[@Andy2kk]

Im so ready for this

[@gloop7458]

Something that redeemed Divergent for me a bit: -only the first book though- Don't look at it like a fantasy world. Look at it like an analogy for Highschool. The personality traits are literally cliques. There's the jocks, the hippies/stoners, the preps, etc. Even if you get along with more than one of the groups, unless you want to be a loner, you're sorted into one anyways. The social butterfly is someone that everyone likes but no one is really friends with or accepts them into the group. It's a Highschool cafeteria, and because it's YA dystopia, it's focusing on YA realities Still poorly written but I don't hate it (edit: and the fact that although it's very obviously inspired by Hunger Games, it's not a cheap money grab and is very much a passion project by a college student makes it more endearing to me)

[@randyparker4766]

Why am I intrigued but a villain whose motivation is that their cat died?

[@Tanth1982]

So Throne of glass is offbrand Wheel of Time with a girl.

[@Archbishop_of_the_Noodle]

You are one of the sources that ended up convincing me to try to write. By showing me that people love writing horrid stories. So I have a chance.

[@leem.5246]

“So really no matter what, I win here “ we need Tshirts

[@SuperAmaton]

If you are a writer and are using R**e in your book, there should be three things on your mind. 1. Is it necessary 2. How can i remove it without changeing the story 3. If this is not possible, do your absolute best to tone it down It is perhaps the most discusting thing to read about in any book and this revulsion can be brought forth in other manners. There was one story where it at least didn't ruin the experience for me where it was a thing. The main character was a Princess that was to be married off to a prince of a diffrent country. She was however friends with a peasant who didn't want her to suffer a potential abusive husband. You can guess what happend. I'd have liked it more if it was just a attempt or if it was out of the main characters own volition and her regreting it later, but that wouldn't have made such a impact. It also helped it wasn't described in great detail. I still dropped the story, but that was out of boredom, not because of the R*** that happend.

[@rainyjazzy5047]

I have never watched book review being so funny, I will wait for your next most hated books video

[@ZS-dr7bi]

There are 6 books that are also in my most hated books list this year coINCIDENCE?? I THINK NOT

[@lesteryaytrippy7282]

I salute you. I can't even go through New Moon after finishing Twilight.

[@keyboardstalker4784]

4:21 ”the main villain vaush” WHAT HOW

[@tacticisacting3702]

exactly what i heard and thought lmao

[@jacencade4019]

44:06 to be fair John wicks motivation is that his dog was murdered and he wants revenge.

[@rolandart5670]

That's a really cool poster in the background. Really cool.

[@eliasbischoff176]

53:15 didn´t Wonderwoman 1984 do the exact same thing?