What publically contoverial/publically hated(whether justified or not) stories have you read and what were your thoughts on it?

[RepresentingWrath]

* Bleach (Anime, Manga is good)

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[Alfir]

I have another one. It's not a story, though; instead, it's a movie.
Movie: Cats.
Thoughts: Be happy that you'd never heard of it, but now you have heard of it, suffer with me.

 

[georgelee5786]

That said, the following are overrated:
* Breaking Bad

I'm gonna put an adder in your bed

 

[Rezcore]

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[CarburetorThompson]

I’ve read The Art of The Deal by Donald Trump.

There a few funny or interesting anecdotes and stories within it, but they usually only last a paragraph or two at most. The vast majority of it is super boring New York real estate law

 

[2wordsperminute]

I tried to read emergence/metamorphosis (henshin) by shindo L just to see how bad it got.

There's a reason I couldn't read more than half of it. I hope I'm never so desensitized that I can stomach the idea of looking at it again.

 

[JayMark]

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

The characters are quite memorable. The villian, Mr. Pecksniff, made me feel absolute rage whenever he appeared once his character became established. This guy was the ultimate asshole, total hypocrite who outright stole his apprentice's design work and then turned on him. Dicken's take on the insurance industry was so far ahead of its time and 100 percent on the nail, and it's hilarious how the villians downfall was tied into a scathing rebuke of insurance companies. The critique of the U.S.A. settlement scams is unique as well, as this was the only novel Dicken's wrote that featured the U.S. as a setting. The side characters are all marvelously portrayed with social commentary blended into the narrative.

The serial novel was, however, poorly recieved, even hated in America, and to this day is not a work Dickens is well known for. But I'm a better person for reading it.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

I was bored out of my mind by book five of Harry Potter.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I'll throw in a book!

Animal Farm: A banned book from 1945 that is still relevant today.

Everytime I see someone arguing by drowning out and refusing to think critically I want to start chanting "Two legs bad, 4 legs good." And see if they get the reference. (I don't because it would prob be a little passive agressive)

All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others...

I liked Twilight (movie, haven't read book) better than 50 (only read book) because the woman showed more initiative in Twilight. 50 was far too one-sided.

50 Shades of Garbage was originally a fan-fic OF Twilight; she started with "What if, instead of high school kids they were adults when they met? And, instead of feeding on blood, he feeds on pain via BDSM?" and went downhill from there...
I saw the first Twilight movie and tried to watch the second but just got bored with it and stopped. Never had any interest in 50 Shades (especially when the author pulled a fan-fic of her own fan-fic and wrote a gender swapped version of her original "novel"). Twice picked up Twilight to read (once in the discount bin at either Costco or B J's Wholesale, once at a library book sale) but remembered friends telling me how horribly written it was (apparently, by her second series, The Host, Meyers learned how to write, and the last Twilight book might have, if it had been finished, been the best thing she ever wrote if a now former friend of hers hadn't "leaked" the first draft to a Redit group when they were supposed to be serving as a beta reader) and pass.

 

[melchi]

All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others...

50 Shades of Garbage was originally a fan-fic OF Twilight; she started with "What if, instead of high school kids they were adults when they met? And, instead of feeding on blood, he feeds on pain via BDSM?" and went downhill from there...
I saw the first Twilight movie and tried to watch the second but just got bored with it and stopped. Never had any interest in 50 Shades (especially when the author pulled a fan-fic of her own fan-fic and wrote a gender swapped version of her original "novel"). Twice picked up Twilight to read (once in the discount bin at either Costco or B J's Wholesale, once at a library book sale) but remembered friends telling me how horribly written it was (apparently, by her second series, The Host, Meyers learned how to write, and the last Twilight book might have, if it had been finished, been the best thing she ever wrote if a now former friend of hers hadn't "leaked" the first draft to a Redit group when they were supposed to be serving as a beta reader) and pass.

They made a fanfic of the book that started out of a twilight fanfic.

Fifty Shames of Earl Grey - Audiobook

by Fanny Merkin, read by Allyson Ryan. From Fanny Merkin comes a shrewd, laugh-out-loud parody of E. L. James's bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey.

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BDSM = (Bards, Dragons, Sorcery, and Magick)

 

[Representing_Tromba]

They made a fanfic of the book that started out of a twilight fanfic.

Fifty Shames of Earl Grey - Audiobook

by Fanny Merkin, read by Allyson Ryan. From Fanny Merkin comes a shrewd, laugh-out-loud parody of E. L. James's bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey.

tantor.com

BDSM = (Bards, Dragons, Sorcery, and Magick)

I thought BDSM was the doom parody for bloody damn satanic massacre?

 

[Alfir]

Oh, here's another one... Not a novel, but a TV Show Series.
Story: Last of Us, Season 2
Thoughts: I'm Gonna Be a Dad!

 

[HisDivineShadow]

The book that had this kind of impact on me was Dune by Frank Herbert. I read it without knowing it was a bestseller, so I had no expectations going in. It completely captivated me and also deeply disgusted me. I was drawn into the world of Dune and read the books late into the night. But some elements triggered such a strong sense of revulsion that I had to stop reading for days at a time. And still, I kept coming back, unable to resist finding out what would happen next.
The most vivid source of my revulsion was the Harkonnen family, the way they treated both their own and others’ bodies. It was disgusting. I literally felt sick. Then came the shock of how artificial spice was produced. That was horrifying. After that, I actually stopped reading the series for a year. That was the last straw.
I think it has to do with how my brain works. Everything I read or write, I see in pictures, like a movie playing in my head. Most of the stories I’ve read, I’m not even sure anymore whether I read them or watched a film adaptation. My brain doesn’t really distinguish the difference. That’s why Dune is both beautiful and revolting to me, simultaneously. I finished the entire series and never reread it again. It’s both love and hate for me.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

Arifureta. The MC was too angry and violent for my taste, and I nearly dropped reading it several times. However the MC mellowed out after rescuing the kid from the sewer, and it became more of an average read to me. It wasn't until the after story (which includes the vast majority of content) that I really found it engaging.

 

[Lysander_Works]

I My Me ~ Strawberry Eggs

Reasons many have disliked: involves a student > teacher relationship (adult + 14 year old).

Say what you want about romances involving huge age differences. I think it's at least thought provoking. Obviously, the ideal of it is quickly hated because, 96% of the time, it would be something predatory. The theme of this anime initially is; gender doesn't have a say on love, neither does role ~ and then later caps age into the same thing.

What I got out of it was, when you really fall in love with someone (something far deeper than a crush), all that matters is that other person and who they are, not so much what they are, what they have, or how long they've been alive.

 

[yeul_e]

Hate Solo Leveling. Bad writing with even worse story.

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

I really liked this book from my childhood and but never knew the author was a red flag. Nothing was wrong with the book, but I'm depressed by this author's actions and will not support.

Btw: Stop-Motion Animation is dope

 

[LeilaniOtter]

For the life of me, I'll never understand what was so fab about "50 Shades of Grey". ?
I'll think fondly of a "trash Tweet" someone left for the author E.L. James.

"It was hard to figure out what you hated more - women or the English language" ??

But I did grit my teeth and get through it, and I have some advice for those interested: Read it like it's a comedy, and it actually works. *^^*

 

[kosamsel]

Haunting Adeline. Oh my goddddd. I’m a huge proponent of the value of trashy id-fic, but like… that book had a bad rap for all the wrong reasons LOL. It’s so completely detached from reality, and the characters are so one-dimensional and underdeveloped, that I couldn’t remotely take it seriously as a dark romance. To me, a dark romance doesn’t land if I as a reader don’t feel challenged in any way—I SHOULD feel a little squeamish, a little shocked, a little put through the wringer. Not because the author reached for The Weirdest And Most Upsetting Thing on the Shelf and tossed it in, but because they handled their subject matter with both empathy and unflinching honesty.

Haunting Adeline, genuinely, was not dark ENOUGH lol. I never felt emotionally invested enough to be grossed out.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Animal Farm: A banned book from 1945 that is still relevant today.

I second this one. Hard. Giving the power to rule over others for their own good will turn rulers into pigs, patriots into horses, the brave into wolves, and the rest into sheep.