Hey, there’s been a bunch of new users so I figured it might be a good idea to make this thread. Feel free to post your introductions, as well as any links to socials (only if you want to!) such as storygraph, goodreads, or bookwrym etc. I am hopeful to set up a bookwrym instance eventually but its still very much in early early early development.
Also be aware that there are alternative UI front ends, as seen from here. https://literature.cafe/post/315847
Yo!
I’m going by Kaladin, as I’ve been loving my Storm light archive re-read. I’ve been enjoying Sandersons work for maybe 5 years now.
My go to is Sci-fi and Fantasy, but I’ll take nonfiction if the subject interests me. I also struggle to sit down and read, so my list of read books is a little basic.
I also fucking hate red rising, I’ve literally read Naruto fanfiction that was better.
LMAO was red rising really that bad??? ive heard some pretty intense criticisms of it. im tempted to read it just to see how bad it is…
It’s… bad. Generically bad. The world building starts with one good idea (that was also the base from Brave New World, incidentally), but everything else is subpar: characters are one dimensional, the plot is basic, most things get solved by a deus ex machina that was totally unforshadowed, the writing is flat… it just has no redeeming quality.
It’s like the hunger games on Mars, in my opinion. It’s probably been over five years since I gave up on it, but I recall it being a self insert character.
I can’t remember if it was bad plot, unexplainable character decisions, or straight up bad dialogue that mad me hate it so. I’ll see if I can dig up an old reddit comment.