We all know by now to stay away from the Twilight series. But are there any other books or book series that need to come with warning labels?

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Another series we've all figured out to stay away from by now is the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series

The author has some very scary views on sex religion and relationships.

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

WARNING: By the time you read this for the fourth time, you will still have no idea what's going on, who these people are, or why you should give a fuck about them.

Left Behind (and all its sequels) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.

WARNING: Read this only as a guide about what not to do as a writer. If you seriously believe something like the events of this book will be happening soon, please seek mental help.

Fifty shades of grey. It sucks. There's no character development, no storyline, reused and clumsy dialogue, boring sex scenes with barely a hint of BDSM and it's grotesquely written.

I just have to ask though, Rev, does the guy get any money for his crap? Is his novel printed? Is it called (by some dimwits) to be sassy, fresh and a good read? No? That is why FSoG pisses me off so much. Yes, you can find whatever obscure fanfic, if you only dig deep enough (rule 34, dude!), but that this steaming pile of horsehockey was even considered by a publisher is just beyond me. I regret that I ever read the "series". (I put it in quotation marks, since the three books don't have enough content between them to make even one decent book).

Chick Tracts? They're more comics than books, but unless you're reading it to get a laugh out of it, I'd say avoid it.

(December 29, 2013 at 6:03 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: I just have to ask though, Rev, does the guy get any money for his crap? Is his novel printed? Is it called (by some dimwits) to be sassy, fresh and a good read? No? That is why FSoG pisses me off so much. Yes, you can find whatever obscure fanfic, if you only dig deep enough (rule 34, dude!), but that this steaming pile of horsehockey was even considered by a publisher is just beyond me. I regret that I ever read the "series". (I put it in quotation marks, since the three books don't have enough content between them to make even one decent book).

It's not printed. I know that some may quibble at my use of the word "novel" to descibe the book, but, I really do think it fits: the OED defines the novel as: "a fictitious prose narrative of book length" It's fictitious, it's prose (even the song lyrics), there's some semblance of narrative, and, like I said, it's almost as long as the first Harry Potter book, so, by the standards of the Oxford English Dictionary, it is, technically, a novel.

Fifty Shades Of Grey. It's so so so bad. I genuinely feel sorry for all the women who found it exciting, they must have such boring partners.

It's badly written, boring shit. Seriously.

The only good thing about it is the creation of pages like this that make life better.