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thechaoticreader · 2 months

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Popular Books I Read and HATED

*Disclaimer: If you like any of these books, slay! I'm happy for you! These are just my own consumer choices, and imo negative book reviews are just as helpful as positive ones!*

This list is not long because I don't actively dislike many books that I read, and I have a very good sense of what I will and will not like, but there are some I had to read/were misled into reading so here we go:

1. Tender Is The Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica

My rant review is above if you want more details but recently I've seen a few videos that articulate my feelings in a way that I couldn't before so im going to add a few reasons here that were not included in the original post:

It gave very Qanon and general antisemitic vibes: i.e blatant conspiracy made up by the "wealthy liberal elites" to encourage cannibalism for their own enjoyment (I know she's Argentinian however that doesn't mean im not allowed to get the ick from it)

Purposefully inaccurate depictions of meat industry and disrespect for farmers (context: im a vegetarian from farm country with a roommate who works in the cattle industry - Angus beef if you're curious - so im very familiar with the process and cannot say in good conscious that it is all bad -> just support local farmers <3)

world building makes little sense

COWS DO NOT EQUATE TO HUMANS NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO !!!!!!!!

the "disease" doesn't make sense (even if its made up who would believe it)

No themes were treated with the depth nor nuance they require (capitalism, feminism, veganism etc.)

I think thats all I haven't covered but this is the only book I have ever read where my hatred of it continues to grow with each day. I went out of my way and deleted it from my reader and get annoyed every time I see it. And for the record (because yes i'm salty) I didn't hate it because it was too disturbing, in fact I've read and loved worse and ive been an avid horror reader since I was (admittedly too) young. I hate it because there wasn't a well done story underneath the gore. I'll say it loudly for the people in the back GORY HORROR BOOKS STILL DESERVE A GOOD/INTERESTING STORY, especially if you want to try to put complex themes in it. If you cannot write a deep story but you're good at and enjoy gore, write yourself a lil 100 page splatter punk and we can all have a good time <3

Unlike with Tender Is The Flesh I don't have a ton of thought out critical reasons for the rest of these soooooo I'm going to give my highly subjective reasons -> I totally understand why some like them <3

2. The Handmaids Tale

by Margaret Atwood

hated the writing style

It didn't keep my attention

disliked the ending so much I actually threw it across the room <3

3. The Hobbit

by J.R.R Tolkien

hated the writing style

male centered fantasy is not my vibe

my ADHD cannot handle long incredibly descriptive sections in books -> I physically fell asleep multiple times while reading this book

honestly even with the movie I fall asleep every time

0/10 book I want to read

10/10 bedtime story

4. Lord of The Flies

by William Golding

hated the writing style

hated most of the characters (and not in a slay anti-hero way)

was forced to read it in high school and it single handedly sent me into a 4 year reading slump... I missed so many good books because of this and will forever hold a grudge

5. Romeo & Juliet

By William Shakespeare

I'm too jaded and gay to enjoy this -> every single character is so painfully stupid

tbh im just bitter that his (imo) better plays get less love than this one, its way over hyped

but I will give it points for boring me so much that I wrote my first fanfic (Romeo x Mercutio if you're curious ... no its not posted anywhere and it never will be <3)

sidenote -> Shakespeare plays I love incl:

Hamlet (duh im a depressed emo gay on Tumblr)

Macbeth (also duh, witches and female manipulator... need I say more)

Othello (a slow burn for the true crime girlies)

Measure for Measure (absolutely underrated, please please please look into this play -> I saw a production of it and it was incredible)

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dryadalisliv · 6 months

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Lobelia Sackville-Baggins: *exists*

Bilbo:

#bilbos a hater #don’t steal his silver spoons #bagginshield #bilbo baggins #the hobbit #lotr

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acornsandoaktrees · 2 months

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me and my wife saw you from across the forest & we hate your vibe. she’s going to shoot you

#professional haters #lotr #the hobbit #tolkien #tolkien elves #aaotverse #acorns and oak trees #lotr au #greenwood kids #thranduil of greenwood #thalanes of greenwood #pîn breth arc

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denethorhatepage · 2 months

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ok actually whenever i see someone say halflings r like four foot i start tweaking the smart ass in me is like about to come out

before i start being a freak on everybody’s posts PLEASE REMEMBER HALFLINGS RUN THE GAMUT OF 2’6-3’5 TYPICALLY 👍👍👍👍

Tolkien hobbits during the era where lotr and the hobbit take place (if u read the blurb in the beginning of fellowship) tend to only skirt around 3’0 (i do recognize some used to be taller around 4 foot but thems ancient times)

if your halfling is four foot he big as fuck! something is wrong!

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #halfling #dnd halfling #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #hobbits #i am normal #fun hater

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thesolarangel · 10 months

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Say it with me:

We will be open about all of the new casting choices for future RoP seasons. We will not criticize their appearance, we will not judge them for earlier performances, instead we will wait until we see them in the show and be open about how they approach their character.

Let's focus on the fact that we will get to experience Tolkien's world and characters on screen with every new season and be swept away by it and gain new inspiration for fanart, fanfiction and cosplay!

#rings of power #Tolkien #LOTR #Silmarillion #Hobbit #Block the haters #I love my tumblr Tolkien community

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branffro · 4 months

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Thranduil getting himself involved in his kid’s love life is a for sure sign of boredom and right after mentioning it to Tauriel he’s like “of course I don’t approve”

#literally main bitch of the woods #insane dad energy #he ignored his high elf instincts of noticing Bilbo just to throw a zing at her #he’s a full time hater and i love that for him #thranduil #legolas #the hobbit desolation of smaug

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thranduilswifesblog · 1 year

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Sauron/Annatar : if you had to choose between Celebrimbor, and all money I have in my wallet, which would you choose?

Oropher : that depends, how much money are we talking about?

Celebrimbor : OROPHER!

Sauron/Annatar : 63 cents

Oropher : I'll take the money

Celebrimbor : OROPHER!!

#the lord of the rings #the hobbit #rings of power #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #tolkien #oropher #celebrimbor #oropher take the noldorian haters to another level #incorrect rings of power quotes

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fluentisonus · 2 years

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"hobbits are the ideal society" well if we're ignoring the rigid class system and rampant xenophobia I guess,,

#sorry to be a hater I just see this line constantly & it drives me crazy adkhsfjgd #like I love the hobbits dearly but no need to go that far.#thoughts #tolkien

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cantsayidont · 17 days

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In many respects I think THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is the most cohesive of the Peter Jackson movies. It cuts or rearranges a lot, but generally in ways that are at least defensible, and a couple of its changes are significant improvements. For instance, it streamlines the clumsy bit of business of Frodo putting on the Ring in the Prancing Pony, which in the book is awkwardly handled, and having Aragorn actually witness and bless Frodo's departure at the end sidesteps a lot of the indecision that follows in Book Three (where Aragorn spends many pages agonizing over whether to follow the orcs to save Merry and Pippin or to try to find Frodo, which is wearying because the reader already knows where Frodo and Sam have gone). The movie also picks up the pace to useful effect.

However, the script does introduce a couple of avoidable story flaws:

Having Bilbo visibly aged when Frodo sees him again introduces a plot hole: If age catches up with a Ring-bearer fairly quickly once they no longer possess the Ring, one would expect Gollum (who is over 500 years old) to have crumbled to dust long ago!

It really does not make clear that the Elves are concerned that the destruction of the One Ring will cause the Three to fail, leading to the end of Rivendell and Lothlórien. This might have been dispensable were it not for the fact that the movie version of Galadriel is much more antagonistic to Frodo than she is in the book for precisely that reason (she still refers to his arrival as "the footsteps of doom"). People who aren't familiar with the books are often confused by why Galadriel seems so mean, which even in the Extended Edition relies too much on familiarity with the novel. This wouldn't have needed much to make it clearer, but it needed something.

The fact that Merry and Pippin are Frodo's cousins gets lost (it's mentioned only in passing in the Prancing Pony scene, where it's easily missed), which often leaves new viewers wondering why these two idiots are tagging along. If it were up to me, I'd have Bilbo mention it in his party speech; I think for most viewers, simply stating more clearly, "These are Frodo's younger cousins," would do wonders to clarify their relationship. (Ironically, if the movie had retained the "conspiracy" subplot — where Merry and Pippin actually know about the Ring thanks to Sam and come up with a plan to help Frodo in a reasonably sensible way — this would be less of an issue, since it would be clear that they are his good friends. However, the first movie consistently presents them as obnoxious silly asses, so one might reasonably wonder why Frodo is putting up with them even before they're all running for their lives!)

#movies #hateration holleration #lord of the rings #lotr #the fellowship of the ring #peter jackson #galadriel #merry brandybuck #pippin took #frodo baggins #i don't think there's anything wrong with cutting bombadil #i see the stuff in the old forest and the house of bombadil #as a holdover from an early conception of a probably less expansive story #more similar to the hobbit in tone #since the whole point of tom bombadil in lotr is that he declines to participate in the rest of the narrative #and gandalf later has to explain that there's no point in asking him for more help than he's already given

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audhdnight · 2 months

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The only opinion I’ve held about Martin Freeman is that he did a good job as Bilbo. I didn’t know anything else about him other than that he was in BBC’s Sherlock, but I haven’t seen that so it didn’t matter to me. He was a very neutral figure in my mind when I thought about him at all.

Imagine my shock today finding out that he’s like the definition of a super shitty person???

He’s racist (the comments I found were specifically targeting Arab people but that kind of bias is never only directed at one group). He made a joke about drugging an elf to sleep with them and then said that “some people might get offended and call that rape, but I just call it a helping hand”. He’s apparently discussed hitting his children in more than one interview, and tries to make it sound better by saying he wasn’t proud of it, but then also said he would do it again and he thinks the world should stop trying to make parents feel bad. This was even after stating that he did it when his child was “too young to be rationalized with” which is just vile to hit a kid who you admit doesn’t even understand why what they’re doing is “wrong”.

In one of those same interviews he said that “positive affirmation” is bullshit, that you shouldn’t tell people they’re perfect the way they are because they’re not, and that he regularly calls his kids “little fuckers”.

I know people have accused him of being “a raging homophobe” as well, and if anyone has evidence of that I’d like to see it because all I can find is him saying that both male and female elves are beautiful when asked which fictional race he’d be most likely to hook up with. (Not that this makes him look good because it immediately preceded the date rape joke 💀).

#officially a Martin freeman hater #martin freeman #tw racism #tw rape mention #tw child abuse #shitty people #the hobbit #bbc sherlock

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disasterbipippin · 2 years

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thinking about richard armitage, lee pace, and luke evans performances in the hobbit: 💞💖💕💞🥰💖💖✨🌟🥰🥰🥰💖💕💖💌✨

thinking about martin freeman: 😡🤬🚫☠️💀😠👎😤💀🤬🚫👎💀👎🚫🤬💀😡🚫😠☠️😡😡🤬

#i do not like that man #i will mot explain i do not need to explain #this is for martin freeman haters and no one else #martin freeman lovers ignore this post #tad talks #the hobbit #bilbo

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werewolf-transgenderism · 1 year

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I need to reread the hobbit immediately

#last week I read a 670k hobbit/lotr fic that made me immediately have a lotr movie marathon #but the hobbit movies are my Enemies (bad!) so I need to reread the book #I did watch the Rankin/Bass hobbit movie but that one's very silly #I truly despise Peter Jackson's hobbit movies like I try to watch them once every couple of years and simply can't do it #they just have the wrong energy and imo they should've just made one movie with the ACTUAL EVENTS OF THE BOOK instead of three bad movies #the bilbo/thorin homoeroticism is the only thing those movies have going for them tbh #sorry for being a hater on main but I just really do not like those movies

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vganimefanatic · 2 years

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Why Harfoots Don't Make Any Sense (and thus I hate them)

(I originally wrote this as a reply/reblog to another post before posting it here)

I don't hate the Harfoots in RoP because of the actors who play them, I hate them because they make no sense. Allow me to elaborate on what I mean by that.

1. Harfoots are supposed to be nomads but their behaviour and lifestyle are contradictory to this. Nomads would not dress the way Harfoots do because nomad clothing has to offer protection/travelling durability. Most nomads would not have written knowledge on paper but would have either oral lore which were memorised or records on things such as wood, animal bones or even weaving. Nomads also do not farm vegetables (which is something Hobbits are known for) although they do herd animals because veggies can't uproot themselves and continue growing on the road when the tribe moves (there is a such thing as nomadic farmers who have several areas they plant crops at. These type of farmers cycle through these areas in turn so the land will have sufficient time to rest/recover its nutrients but the Harfoots seem quite different). The show writers made the Harfoots nomads but didn't know how to make it so their descendants ended up being pipeweed loving farmers so they just said the Harfoots were nomads and left it at that. This is F-tier writing and effort on the show writers' part. I find their portrayal of the Harfoots being 'nomads' laughable as my own Hakka Chinese ancestors were nomadic prior to becoming hillside farmers.

2. The Harfoot's physical appearances are vastly differing from one another despite being from one tribe. There is no in-show explanation for this. This wouldn't be an issue if the show writers had bothered to make the Harfoots consist of sub-tribes who roamed different territories and only met up as one big tribe during summer or winter time. The different environment that each sub-tribe were exposed to would cause the Harfoots as a whole to evolve into a people with a large range of skin/eye/hair colour. A perfectly logical explanation right? Too bad the show writers didn't give a rat's arse about logical explanations.

3. Harfoots having a large role in RoP breaks Tolkien's lore. Hobbits (in this case their ancestors) did not do anything noteworthy during this Age and merely kept to themselves. I don't know about you but dealing with a meteor who turned out to be a man with magic powers that other people saw fall from the sky seems pretty attention attracting to me. The show-writers could have written in a Harfoot who, either because they were exiled or got accidentally seperated from the rest of the tribe, is forced to venture out into the world alone. People would mistake them for a human or dwarf child and the Harfoot, not wanting to expose/endanger their tribe, would just roll along with this mistaken assumption and it's only when they come across someone they trust do they reveal they are a Harfoot. All of this could happen without breaking Tolkien's beautifully crafted narrative. Alas, the show writers couldn't be bothered to read his books so they just went 'screw canon!' and wrote whatever they wanted.

4. Harfoots shouldn't be called Harfoots as the Harfoots are actually a type of Hobbit (the other two were the Stoors and Fallohides). As RoP took place before the Third Age and before the Rohirrim befriended them it's entirely possible they had an entirely different race name or none at all (as in they just consider themselves Regular-sized Folk, and men and elves as Big Folk). The show writers could have invented an entirely new name for Hobbits and actually justify their decision to do so. Instead, they chose Harfoot, the name of one type of Hobbit, and claimed that Harfoots were the ancestors of all Hobbits.

TLDR; Amazon didn't put any real effort or thought in making the Harfoots a believable people which is why the Harfoots suck and I don't like them.

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #rings of power #rop #token representation is not representation #i will stand on this hill til the day i die #amazon is trying to play the all haters are racist card #nice try amazon #you aren't going to gaslight me into thinking this show is good #never in all my years did i think there would be a day i would dislike hobbits #but here we are and it's a crying shame #bad storytelling #bad worldbuilding #bad writing #harfoot #harfoots

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hms-tardimpala · 9 months

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I was a dick, let's make amends.

I hated the Hobbit movies ever since they came out, I've been a real snob about it. I tried to get through these movies many times and my main gripes were that they're full of plot holes, too long and they're boring. Hence me wishing they had a shorter, condensed version.

But I watched the extended cut for the first time this past couple of days, and I need to apologize, because these movies - while not great and certainly mostly bad adaptations - are actually satisfying, coherent and a good time, when they've not been butchered and hacked at so much they end up a badly paced, plot hole-ridden, tonally discordant mess.

A lot of dwarf characterization that I believed to be fanon is actually from this cut, the dwarves were characterized, they just cut it out! Plot holes disappear, continuity is restored and suddenly these movies have a soul and I'm able to respond emotionally to them because I don't have to focus on how bad they are.

The difference is so huge that it's the biggest paradox of my life: when I watch the theatrical cut, I wish for a shorter version to shorten my suffering, and when I watch the long version, I don't see time pass.

I think the theatrical cut is a sad thing. They kept very bad bits and discarded legitimately great things, and because of that, we like to point and laugh at the Hobbit like an industrial accident brought on by capitalistic greed, and we fail to acknowledge the hard work of hundreds of talented artists that shines through in the extended cut.

So I'm sorry I've been a condescending asshole every time I've talked about these movies for ten years, and I'll gladly watch them again.

#seriously all the work and talent that has gone into these movies. everywhere you look there's something to love #set design‚ costumes‚ acting‚ effects...there are still flaws but in the end they're overshadowed by the good for me #it makes me deeply sad how hard and disheartening production was for everybody who worked on this‚ only to be mocked after it's done #the hobbit #Sloan's Middle Earth phase #I might make a post someday about my favorite things in these movies because now that I like them‚ I'll celebrate them #tldr: don't be a hater bro

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themoonking · 2 years

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entire tolkien fandom @ the hobbit film trilogy rn