Hey Pandas, What's Your Controversial Opinion On A Popular Book Series? (Closed)

I wish Anne Frank's real diary was released without being edited at all. I want to read the FULL authentic one. Apparently they cut out quite a lot of it before it's release.

Twilight. The entire series was like watching a train wreck and I don't see why people love it so much. Admittedly, I've never been a big vampire fan but it was dreadful, especially in comparison to other authors I read at the time.

Severus Snape does not deserve all the love he gets from the HP Fandom. He's a problematic Nice Guy who abused Harry during his school years.

I.... actually liked twilight. I know, very unpopular, but I enjoyed the books and the movies.

The Lord of the Rings book series is so boring! I don't need 50 pages to describe what a forest looks like!

Fifty Shades of Grey is terrible. There, I said it.

That the Divergent series is a rip off of the Hunger Games and has sub-par world building.

The Bible is an overhyped work of fiction.

I love Harry Potter, like so much. But it drives me crazy that the whole story is based on the lazy old trope of all of the conflict being a huge misunderstanding because people just don’t share information with each other. What’s worse is that the adults just shut the kids down before hearing them out, even though they’ve been right and basically saved all their asses like a million times. Or they don’t tell the kids important information because they’re “too young”. They seem to think that they’re not too young to be in mortal danger over and over but sure, let’s preserve their childhood innocence. I started using it in reference to other books and shows. I call it “doing a Harry Potter”. I do something similar with The Flintstones but that’s another story for another day lol.
It’s just now occurring to me that this is probably how kids perceive how adults treat them so maybe it is actually valid, because yeah, it’s a book FOR KIDS. But when Harry’s like “Guys, Draco is totally a Death Eater” and even his best friends are like “Impossible! Don’t be ridiculous!” I want to scream!

I've read books since I was 5. And I love mysteries and stuff. I'm gonna get killed, but sorry, I can't stand Twilight Saga more then once. Either watching or reading. I found it ridiculous. Because I grown up with nosferatu and Bram stoker's dracula. So it's kinda disappointing

Game of Thrones has done an irreparable damage on the fantasy genre. It set a trend that everything must be "dark, mature and realistic" which usually means "extremely bleak with lots of graphic, senseless violence and tasteless erotica". I find it sad to see fantasy / sci-fi losing its magic and escapism in favor of "realism".

Percy Jackson is amazing and I can explain the whole plot to you in 5 hours, and also the Harry Potter books are good because you can make everything gay and p**s off J.K. Rowling.

That the Maze Runner series sucked after the first book

That the third book of Hunger Games it confusing

Only the first two or three arcs of the Warriors Cats series were really needed. They kept on creating more arcs, and that led to the decline of the series for me. It got confusing, and of course you could never figure out exactly how to read all of them in order (unless you're a billionaire with money on your hands). Also, they began to focus more on churning them out than actually putting content. (Also- there is no Erin Hunter. It's six writers who make some amazing books on their own, but they do need to let this plot line go.)

I love really long book series. Like the longer the better. I have a hard time with stories ending. This might not be controversial or unpopular, but since I am probably the biggest reader I know, it seems like I'm in the minority.
My favorite long series includes:
Harry Potter (of course)
The Chicagoland Vampires,
House Of Night series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
Soul Screamers,
and so many others.

Other unpopular opinion: as an adult (31 years-old), I prefer to read YA novels instead of adult books. YA is just more fun in my opinion.

Hunger Games: Story was good, but IMO Peeta was useless and didn't need to be in the series, also I didn't like the forced love triangle between Katniss, Peeta, and Gale

Maze Runner: Never liked Teresa's character, also didn't like how Thomas seemed to get special treatment for being The Main Character (scorch trials: tons of gladers die and WICKED doesn't care, he gets shot in the shoulder and WICKED fusses over him?!?)

Harry Potter is a pass

How "The Pillars of the Earth" became a reference for historical fiction is beyond my comprehension. The writing style is poor, the characters one-dimensional. And don't get me started on historical accuracy.

I found Earagon (can’t spelll) to be one of the most boring books I’ve ever read but I’ve heard people defend it with their lives. Maybe the books after the first were good? Never got that far

I REALLY VERY STRONGLY dislike the Hunger Games. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, sit back and enjoy this Caffeine-Fuelled Two-Thirty-AM scathing rant about why I hate this overrated, pathetic series:

Firstly, the writing. In my opinion, the writing is absolutely horrendous. Multiple lines make zero sense and I have no idea why they weren't cut during editing as there is no point to them being there. The series is not very fast-paced and it took over half the book to get to the actual Games during the second book. As well as this, whilst it's slow-paced, it just doesn't explain certain aspects of the story or fleshes out scenes / actions properly which leaves the reader confused + the dialogue is especially bad.

Secondly, the main character herself. Katniss is an EXTREMELY unlikeable protagonist, she's riddled with self-doubt and whilst usually this would give the character an opportunity to grow and expand in their confidence, Katniss stays SO PATHETIC throughout the entire series. I know this may be to exemplify the horror of what she's are living through but it simply unenjoyable for a reader to have to read page after page about how the protagonist hates herself, feels she is useless, always messed up, will fail her family, etc. I STRONGLY dislike her character.

Thirdly, the rest of the character & the pathetic attempt at a love triangle. Almost every character is NOT expand on character's motives, flaws, ambitions, etc. (quick example: Prim. We know she's Katniss's innocent younger sister, but we have zero insight to what she wants in life, her inner struggles, anything. It's just "oh look her Katniss has a cute sister you need to like her because we're going to kill her off later so YOU MUST BE SAD!!)
I have taken zero liking to ANY characters, although in the first book I grew fond of a few but they just ended up getting killed off and no new likeable characters were introduced throughout the rest of the series. EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER (sorry for caps!) is extremely one-dimensional and I feel the author made no attempt at writing relatable, or even remotely LIKEABLE characters. Also, the love triangle is extremely poorly written and it was obvious what was going to happen right from the start.

Next, there is too much focus on the politics and far too little on the Hunger Games themselves. As I said earlier, it takes over half the book for them to start in the second one, and THERE ISN'T EVEN A HUNGER GAMES in the third!! What I came to read about is a dangerous, high-stakes, kill-or-be-killed death game between intelligent, skilled, and yet VULNERABLE young people who will use their wits to outsmart the others and struggle with the morality of killing throughout their journey; to make allies and enemies and to end up learning a greater lesson in the end. But NOPE, instead we get long, droning, bland, tasteless political garbage that I could barely stay awake reading. And this is all that was happening during the third book, I HATED that one with a burning, fiery passion.

Lastly, expanding on my previous point, there is SEVERE lack of inner torment for the characters involved with the games. This is probably my greatest gripe with the series. There is ZERO, and I mean ZERO, inner troubles about having to literally KILL CHILDREN. I wish Katniss had set a trap, caught a defenseless child, and had to kill them, probably while they begged for mercy. THAT would give her something to feel bad about. But NO, all we have is ruthless murderers and psychopaths, reading to slit the throats of toddlers. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLDS. Surely at least ONE of them would feel bad? But of course, no! Each character, despite seemingly being very young, seems to have the mental age of twenty. This is incredibly unrealistic and believable. The ONE THING that could VASTLY improve the entire series is to GIVE YOUR CHARACTERS A DAMN CONSCIENCE.

There are no redeeming qualities to this book. Overrated and Horribly Written.