Fantasy Classics Re-named

Post by **Cambo** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:54 pm

mightygodking.com/2008/10/20/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits/

Bit of a chuckle, and Covenant's in there. I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:49 am

Haha, that was pretty amusing.

--A

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:24 am

Those are excellent.

Post by **Lady Revel** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:00 pm

I laughed!

Post by **Mighara Sovmadhi** » Fri May 10, 2013 10:22 pm

"Look! A lawful evil protagonist!" Haha, never even read the Elric books and I liked this joke the most.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun May 12, 2013 12:02 am

Excellent stuff.

Post by **RaceFinisher** » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:07 am

Good stuff.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 6:24 pm

Cambo wrote:I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.

I still don't get this. When Twilight came out, a relative gave it to my daughter and I read it. While adolescent-ish, it wasn't as bad as all that. It was meh. The woman did get a four-movie deal out of it. (And "Host", too, which was "not bad" but still not "legendarily bad".) I think a lot of it is envy, to be honest. Which of us has a film deal?

It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)

Post by **Vraith** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:20 pm

deer of the dawn wrote: It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)

The list creator overextended his irony/sarcasm muscles, trying to layer in another level of pun by including in the countdown some that are fantasy classics...and some that are classics only in some folks fantasies.
[I assume mightygodking is a he, she'd have been mightygoddessqueen.]

Post by **Cambo** » Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:15 am

deer of the dawn wrote:
Cambo wrote:I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.
I still don't get this. When Twilight came out, a relative gave it to my daughter and I read it. While adolescent-ish, it wasn't as bad as all that. It was meh. The woman did get a four-movie deal out of it. (And "Host", too, which was "not bad" but still not "legendarily bad".) I think a lot of it is envy, to be honest. Which of us has a film deal?

It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)

A lot of my personal beef with Twilight- and I know I am not alone in this- is not that it's just poorly written, but that it's flat out disturbing. For a while it had hordes of adolescents and middle aged women idolising a relationship that was unhealthy and borderline abusive in many ways.

As for the wider meme-like Twilight hate, it's similar to why people love to hate on Nickelback: it's a hugely popular and inescapable phenomenon with no justification in terms of quality.

Post by **rdhopeca** » Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:52 am

Cambo wrote:
deer of the dawn wrote:
Cambo wrote:I especially like the blunt "Dogshit" by Stephanie Meyer.
I still don't get this. When Twilight came out, a relative gave it to my daughter and I read it. While adolescent-ish, it wasn't as bad as all that. It was meh. The woman did get a four-movie deal out of it. (And "Host", too, which was "not bad" but still not "legendarily bad".) I think a lot of it is envy, to be honest. Which of us has a film deal?

It did make me chuckle, but panning Twilight is kind of meh anyway. It s too easy. (AND, what's it doing in a list of "Fantasy Classics"?????)
A lot of my personal beef with Twilight- and I know I am not alone in this- is not that it's just poorly written, but that it's flat out disturbing. For a while it had hordes of adolescents and middle aged women idolising a relationship that was unhealthy and borderline abusive in many ways.

As for the wider meme-like Twilight hate, it's similar to why people love to hate on Nickelback: it's a hugely popular and inescapable phenomenon with no justification in terms of quality.

Now I will truly never read Twilight.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:53 am

You are not missing a thing.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:30 pm

I re-read the first three or four Dragonriders of Pern a few years ago. I jokingly renamed it "Dragonriders of Porn" because of the frantic, rapey sexuality involved in the riders' bonding process with the dragons. I decided not to recommend it to my son, who shied away from LFB because of Lena's rape.

Anybody else got renamings of their own?

Post by **Cambo** » Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:40 am

Malazan Book of Who's This Guy Again?

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:41 pm

Cambo wrote:Malazan Book of Who's This Guy Again?

Good one.

I've got to read this series someday, just for the challenge of trying to figure out what the h#ll is going on.

After watching a few episodes of "The Legend of the Seeker" my daughter and I re-named it "Legend of the Stripper".

Waddley wrote: On the other hand, I love the TV series. I can't stop watching it... could have something to do with the fact that sometimes the lead character takes his shirt off.

Post by **call11back** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 7:21 pm

deer of the dawn wrote:I re-read the first three or four Dragonriders of Pern a few years ago.

I did this a few years ago, and I seriously regretted it.

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