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Authors that give you the ick?
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Dec 21, 2023 11:49AM
I've definitely been side-eyeing Stephen King since the child orgy/gangbang scene in IT. Why would a grown man ever come up with something like this and the publishers even have it approved??
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From the man himself, as quoted in a Screenrant artcle from April 2023:I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don't remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children–we think we do, but we don't remember it as it really happened. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It's another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children's library and the adult library. Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues.
Tui T SutherlandShe was fine UNTIL YOU PUT YOUR STUPID FRIGGIN POLITICS INTO YOUR BOOKS!!! (KEEP YOUR POLITICS OUT OF YOUR BOOKS!!!!)
Colleen Hoover literally creating a coloring book for a domestic violence book. Like dude, what are they gonna color? Fridge magnets?
Colleen Hoover. One, who gave this woman the power to become a household name when she romanticized a 15yo with an 18yo? And two, where did she get the nerve to keep going??
chloe wrote: "Colleen Hoover. One, who gave this woman the power to become a household name when she romanticized a 15yo with an 18yo? And two, where did she get the nerve to keep going??"wait what book was this in?? (so i can steer clear of it lol)
Paulo coelho .. I just can't understand the hype. To me, personally, his books are boring and tedious
Michael wrote: "From the man himself, as quoted in a Screenrant artcle from April 2023:I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. The gr..."
I know that-- still side-eye worthy to me because you can come up with a much better scene illustrating this and the connection to childhood and adulthood without a young girl being the star of a gang bang.
Naomi wrote: "Colleen Hoover literally creating a coloring book for a domestic violence book. Like dude, what are they gonna color? Fridge magnets?"girl, in It Ends with Us the two main characters have sex after a violent dispute in the kitchen, and when you read Colleen Hoover's author note at the end she says that this actually happened irl with her parents (minus the sex ofc). but like, why would you add smut to something so directly inspired by your mom's abuse...
Heaviin wrote: "Michael wrote: "From the man himself, as quoted in a Screenrant artcle from April 2023:I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and G..."
agreed.
I watched a deep dive on Colleen Hoover and decided to read a bit into November 9 to see if she was really so bad and she definitely was. I didn’t review it because I only got a few pages in but that didn’t stop Miss Hoover from giving us an utterly nasty male lead who gives literal children who read her book the idea that being in a romantic relationship with a man who was fantasizing blatantly about undressing you and touching you a couple minutes after meeting is okay.
J.K Rowling😬 Love the books, but the author...not so much
I haven't read a Colleen Hoover book, and I've no interest in doing so.
JK Rowling. I want to play the HP game but I will be buying it secondhand.
Lillyonna wrote: "I haven't read a Colleen Hoover book, and I've no interest in doing so."Honestly same. I heard bad things so I steer clear from those
Nora Roberts. The same story over and over and over again.
Definitely Coleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover. A lot of her books have domestic violence and that is just a big ick
most people are saying Colleen Hoover (and I agree) but I'll shake it up and say Stephen King for writing a child orgy in It
@Evie why Helen Oyeyemi? just curious as you didn't go into detail.
Bella wrote: "Tui T SutherlandShe was fine UNTIL YOU PUT YOUR STUPID FRIGGIN POLITICS INTO YOUR BOOKS!!! (KEEP YOUR POLITICS OUT OF YOUR BOOKS!!!!)"
That’s a deal breaker for me too. Authors are people with opinions like the rest of us, but a fact of life is you lose a percentage of readers if you’re alienating them with a point of view only 50% of the reading public shares. That may be a risk some authors are ok with. I don’t know what her politics are, and I spent about 30 min trying to figure them out without any luck. I saw you are a “soon to be author” so congratulations! I also saw your review for Cuts Like a Knife, and checked the book out. Saw it takes place in Chicago, which is a plus in my book, so will definitely pursue that. Life’s too short to pay for a lecture from a book you don’t want to hear, and there are so many great writers in the world, there are good choices for everyone.
Stephen King sadly. I read IT after some of his other works when I was a huge fan of his but after the infamous sewer scene I don't feel like reading another book by him...
Any author supporting genocide is on my ick list
lynn painter, ive only read better than the movies (1 star, hated it) and im definitely not gonna read any of her other books
I have an aversion to reading old yellow, cellar books that smell musty. It's not snobby, it's about hygiene. I do buy books at tag sales, thrift shops, and library sales that look new. I won't buy paperbacks with ripped-off covers either.
As some have said, authors that support genocide, gotta do what we can to help!
Tessa Bailey. Her descriptions make me sick to my stomach 😂
Heaviin wrote: "I've definitely been side-eyeing Stephen King since the child orgy/gangbang scene in IT. Why would a grown man ever come up with something like this and the publishers even have it approved??"I sure agree with you. I have managed to avoid It but I read Gerald's Game which is very sick also.
Morgan wrote: "Lillyonna wrote: "I haven't read a Colleen Hoover book, and I've no interest in doing so."Honestly same. I heard bad things so I steer clear from those"
Very wise as her books are horrible! Long ago I read Slammed as I did not realize at that time how bad she was/is.
Sue wrote: "Nora Roberts. The same story over and over and over again."YES! Unbelievably boring!
please keep in mind that I have not read a single book by either of these authors, but I have unexplainable beef with Collen Hoover and Murakami
Colleen Hoover and everyone else involved in that racist fueled take down of a college grad ugh
Colleen Hover. Never could I ever read a full book. 5 pages were enough. The writing style is so bad, if I wouldn't know better it could be by me.
Colleen Hoover
Cassandra Claire (still reading her books tho)
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita is one of the best written books I have ever read. But it made me feel sick in the stomach to read.
Coleen Hover. I've never read a single book by her and probably never will, but I watched videos of people basically explaining the story of some of her most famous books, and the only thing I could think of is WHYYY? Other I could think of at the top of my head are Penelope Douglas and L.J. Shen. These two, I've read some of their books, and its wildin over there, good lord. And those weren't even the most "problematic" ones they've written!
So yeah... If you like these specific authors tho, well, you do you lol. We all read what we want read, I won't judge—maybe just the tinniest bit I will, but who cares yaknow? lmao
Eric Larocca. In Everything the Darkness Eats, there's a gang r*pe scene which ended in the victim internally worshipping the main perpetrator and thinking he was super attractive. It made me sick to my stomach in the worst possible way because it was handled so fucking badly. Also J. K. Rowling for the obvious reasons.
I love how everyone is just saying Colleen Hoover 😭
Colleen Hoover for me too, I just can't ever get behind the dv in her books. It's triggering and done distastefully imo.
Danielle Steele. I don't understand the hype around her or at least the hype that it was in the '90's. Her stories feel the same to me. I've read quite a few of them but I only ever liked Wanderlust.
R.F. Kuang.Read a few of the one star reviews of The Poppy War and you know why.
A.R Taboo, tho i read taboo but this author is just so bad
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