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Anonymous Tue Sep 17 05:58:15 2019 No.13832448 [Reply] [Original]

Why is this utter trash rated so highly?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 05:59:10 2019 No.13832455 >>13832448 pop things are generally bad and overrated, more news at 11.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 06:01:51 2019 No.13832460 >>13832448 Because It's entertaining If You're 13 and It's perfectly written as to monetize the short period in a man's life during which Dragons are objectively the coolest shit ever conceived.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 06:02:32 2019 No.13832461 >>13832448 Paolini came to my school once. He first did a backflip on stage, and then spent most of the time talking about how he spent an entire summer digging a massive hole in his backyard to hang out in. Dude was fucking weird.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 06:05:30 2019 No.13832469 Never heard of this book

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 06:10:09 2019 No.13832482 >>13832469 yeah well it's never heard of you either

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 09:58:42 2019 No.13833300 >>13832448 only children read it, therefore, only children rate it. what serious adult sits down and reads kid books to give them an honest rating?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:00:44 2019 No.13833309 The highest rated book on GR is Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix with a sample size exceeding 1 million

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:02:33 2019 No.13833315 >>13832461 This is great

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:06:46 2019 No.13833333 >>13832482 FUCKING REKT

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:12:30 2019 No.13833365 >>13833333 FUCKING CHECKT

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:13:09 2019 No.13833366 >>13833333 nice digits

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:18:10 2019 No.13833387 >>13832448 Because is good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 10:21:03 2019 No.13833397 >>13832448 He was a teenager when he wrote it and his parents owned a publishing company.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 15:11:25 2019 No.13834870 File: 1.12 MB, 1280x799, 1566328347798.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13833333 WITNESSED

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:39:10 2019 No.13835701 >>13832448 Shit was pretty great when I was a kid. Obviously you grow out of it, but I found it very entertaining. And it's a good little intro to more mature fantasy like the Lord of the Rings.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:40:11 2019 No.13835708 >>13832448 I read it at 13 and liked it but I looked at the prose today and was fucking appalled

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:45:35 2019 No.13835732 Is it at least better than the golden compass?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:48:48 2019 No.13835749 >>13833333 REKT AND CHEKT

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:49:52 2019 No.13835758 >>13835701 >more mature fantasy like the Lord of the Rings. Is there actually any "mature fantasy" besides Lord of the Rings?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:52:31 2019 No.13835777 >>13835758 Malazan

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 17:59:12 2019 No.13835806 >>13835758 yes, the bible

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 18:17:13 2019 No.13835922 >>13835758 Book of the new sun

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 18:25:51 2019 No.13835961 >>13835758 Gravity's Rainbow

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 18:47:25 2019 No.13836069 >>13833333 CHECKT

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 18:49:23 2019 No.13836083 >>13835758 Gormenghast, chivalric romance, chanson de geste, and the Greeks

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 18:53:07 2019 No.13836095 >>13835758 book of the new sun x2

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 19:09:28 2019 No.13836171 >>13832448 3.9 is actually an absolute shit rating for fantasy/ya. In those categories 4.2 is basically the passing grade. The real headscratcher is why sandersons garbage is consistently 4.5+, but of course its all sample selection.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 19:15:11 2019 No.13836198 >>13836095 Okay anon, I'll check it out

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 19:18:10 2019 No.13836212 >>13835922 >>13836095 >mature ‘fantasy’ >it’s actually sci-fi

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 19:23:41 2019 No.13836229 You have to be one of the worst, most despised writers of all time to get under a 3 on Goodreads and even the there's still a good chance to get a decent score.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 19:42:11 2019 No.13836281 >>13833333 SHREKED

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 20:58:05 2019 No.13836686 >>13836212 scifi is a subgenre of fantasy

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:11:41 2019 No.13836770 >>13836686 No. Scifi is about the other and the unknown, the inhuman. There is no human reflection in it, it is alien and inhuman. Fantasy tickles atavistic mythological archetypes and is about man and internalities.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:18:19 2019 No.13836800 >>13835701 >>13835708 Same, It's like my Kevin J. Anderson books. Fun as a kid but unappealing as an adult

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:23:26 2019 No.13836820 >>13835758 Dying Earth

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:25:26 2019 No.13836831 >>13832461 Sounds like a pretty cool and down to earth guy to me. >>13832448 Literally because of nostalgia. I ever even read that shit when I was younger, but I remember the cover page everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:25:34 2019 No.13836832 >>13832448 The same reason this piece of shit is. YA lit is all trash, people laud it because that one time in middle school when the teacher read it aloud was the last time most normies had any interaction with a book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:26:35 2019 No.13836841 File: 66 KB, 948x1566, 9780812550702_custom-14b6b3e2b8be027acc868fa0aba0670be8900168-s6-c30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13836832 Oops, forgot pic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:34:19 2019 No.13836874 >>13835758 Wheel of Time

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 21:54:45 2019 No.13836940 File: 410 KB, 500x372, 1380121946370.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13836874

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 05:09:25 2019 No.13838518 >>13833333 Based, based, a thousand times based!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 05:14:55 2019 No.13838530 >>13832460 This

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 05:16:15 2019 No.13838534 >>13836770 Not him but do you wanna know how I know you dont read scifi?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 06:48:57 2019 No.13838719 >>13832461 Really, like an actual backflip?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 07:00:42 2019 No.13838752 >>13832461 based autist

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 07:46:07 2019 No.13838907 >>13838719 Yeah, it was pretty impressive actually.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 08:08:50 2019 No.13838955 >>13832460 I read Eragon around that age and thought it was shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 08:51:44 2019 No.13839089 >>13832448 beats me. I tried reading it as a kid and it felt like it dragged on longer and more monotonously than the lord of the rings.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 09:50:26 2019 No.13839314 >>13836770 genres are defined by the audience not the content.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 09:57:40 2019 No.13839329 >>13832448 > 3.89 > good i don't read any book below 4.0