POPULAR AUTHORS, UNPOPULAR OPINIONS 🙊
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- POPULAR AUTHORS, UNPOPULAR OPINIONS 🙊
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Timestamps:
1:00 V.E. Schwab
3:28 Brandon Sanderson
5:36 Marie Lu
8:15 Leigh Bardugo
9:54 TV adaptations
10:44 Sarah J Maas
11:57 Madeline Miller (Song of Achilles and mythology adaptation)
I teach The Iliad and hesitated reading The Song of Achilles because I didn’t want to be disappointed or frustrated with this epic that I love so much. However, I broke down this year and read it, and I absolutely loved it. Yes, Achilles is fully wrapped up in himself and makes selfish decisions because he wants honor and glory. Had he not acted this way in her novel, I actually would have been disappointed. For the most part, it was a completely plausible and accurate retelling that I thoroughly enjoyed. I am sure my love of The Iliad (and Achilles) played a significant role in my overall enjoyment of the novel.
Preach!!
ACOTAR isn’t the best from SJM, but it does have a place in my heart lol. If you ever do decide to reread it for the heck of it, I recommend the dramatized audiobook because it makes it feel like a cheesy soap opera with the background music & voice actors. It made me laugh out loud and was honestly so fun as a reread 😂
It was interesting to read A Song of Achilles and then reading Silence of the Girls right after. Very different takes on Achilles!
Iove a good unpopular opinion!
Saw the title of this video and knew you'd bring up Wayne- not sure that opinion is unpopular though.
I always figured my unpopular opinion was enjoying him. 😂
Me too! He was my favourite part about era 2 haha
I loved Wayne. I enjoy his type of humor.
I think it’s fair to call him a polarizing character. I liked him though!
Same lol. All the Wayne hate hurts me because I love him so much 😭
Ikr. He is my favorite character of Era 2 with Steris.
I want to see a video about the books you “never want to see again”! 😂
Agreed wholeheartedly re: Wheel of Time and Witcher shows. They are soooo bad.
I dont know if I think Vengeful is better, but it was right on par with book 1. I loved both books and will still read a thrid one when it comes out!
I agree with you about the Shadow & Bone adaptation. So much better than the Witcher or Wheel of Time shows. My unpopular opinions are that Malazan is overrated and Rage of Dragons is abysmally overrated lol.
Shadows of Self! Yes that is my favorite Era 2 book. I really dislike Sanderson's humor but I really liked Wayne lol
Oh, I'm definitely with you about Wayne lol. I've had to spend a lot of time ignoring him, hahaha
wheel of time s2 has been amazing
Yes! Thank You!! I agree with you 1000% on everything you said about Song of Achilles! I loved the writing style, hated Achilles, and yes, Patroclus definitely deserved better.
OMG, I'm with you completely on Era 2 of Mistborn. Shadows of Self was my favorite too. And yes, that series would be 100% better if Wayne wasn't in it. I know bc on my last reread before Lost Metal came out, i just skipped the portions where he was the focus and it elevated the series. That would be more difficult to do with Lost Metal, making that the weakest of the quartet.
I am *WITH* you about Wayne in Era Two lol hnnnngh
Finally. I felt so alone with that opinion of Song of Achilles 😂😂😂
I completely agree about The Kingdom of Back. I loved the Legend trilogy, but TKOB was just on another level.
My unpopular opinion is that I can't read Robin Hobb.
It's not that I hate her books nor is it a case of "I dont understand why so many people like this" - it's just that I read the original Farseer trilogy until the end and it sent me into such a deep depression that I started avoiding books for a few months 😅 and since then every time I try to pick up something by her I get book-ptsd and have to dnf 😔
Oh my god, I finished the first book of the farseer trilogy and now I'm scared 😢
If Wayne wasn't in era 2, my books wouldn't have as many tabs as they do now 😅
isn't Achilles being egotistical and all that a part of being like a greek hero?
Yeah I was thinking the same; you would be hard pressed to find a Greek hero from mythology who wasn't actually a despicable person lol 😅
Yeah, exactly haha! Literally EVERY (almost) Greek hero is wayyyyyy to faithful in themselves
Same for The Song of Achilles. I couldn't get the hype.
Agreed with King of Scars and Rule of Wolves. I finished both of them, but I honestly remember very little from the two of them. I can't even really remember what the "reveal" you're talking about is because I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did Six of Crows. And Nikolai was one of my favorite characters, so I was bummed that I just didn't enjoy it nearly as much.
For SJM, I've only read one of her series, being Throne of Glass. So the most I can make for an unpopular opinion there is that while I loved the series, I also can't deny that it has its flaws. I love it AND I'm also so critical of it. And I love that I can have that dichotomy. Also, Heir of Fire is one of my favorite books of the series (currently re-reading the series and I'm on this book right now, reliving all my favorite parts). I know so many people dislike it and end up DNF-ing the series at that book, but I absolutely love it.
Totally same for the king of scars. I purged those books from my memory and I read them only few months back 😂
I could agree about Vengeful if I liked those new characters... but I really didn't. Read them back to back and it felt like the Vengeful cast didn't get the same level of work and integration into the plot that the Vicious cast did
omg I completely agree with the song of achillees!!
I love Wayne! Era 2 is my favorite and it would definitely not be as good without him.
Matching the vibe lol 😄
ACOTAR is... okay. It's a good read, it's fun but it's Black Jewels fan fic and it's not well written. None of SJM's work is. So, I'm glad she gets love for her work, I don't hate it, I do read it, it's just not worth the hype her work gets for being 'amazing fantasy'. If I never got another book from her I would not be upset, I'd just move on to the next person who writes something similar. It's brain candy and there's lots available. Anne Bishop did it first and someone else will keep doing it.
Mistborn Era 2... it was okay, too. Loved the reveal, it was amazing. I shipped the ship. But, it is probably my least favorite set of books from Sanderson. Wayne didn't bother me 🤣I've known Waynes.
The Six of Crows Duology is literally the only thing I like from Bardugo.
I think I have to agree that Shadows of Self is the best book in Mistborn era 2. Wayne isn't my favorite character, but I was able to understand his character so his humor didn't detract from my enjoyment. But I understand why he's so polarizing.
Jade War was almost ruined for me after what happened at the end of Part 1. I had to put the book down for a week. That has never happened to me before. However, after I had more time to reflect, I respected the author's choice and continued to love the series.
Hey have you posted the review for Genevieve Gornichec new book yet?
Agreed on the King of Scars duology. I had that same "um, ok" response at the one reveal, and then I completely forgot I read the second book. Looking at it on Goodreads confirms I had good reason to forget, eesh.
I think I need to reread Song of Achilles because I mostly remember the excellent prose. I've always thought Achilles was an egotistical jerk though so I might have taken that aspect with a grain of salt. My opinion of worst retelling was Phaedra. It had some interesting aspects but it just felt like a slow motion car wreck.
In the SJM vein, my unpopular opinions are Aelin is my least favorite character in Throne of Glass and I hate the end of Crescent City 2/House of Breath and Sky.
I didn’t realize this was an unpopular opinion until recently, so here’s mine.
I thought Mistborn was a 6 book series, and was super excited to see how book 4 was going to fix the ending of book 3. And then it was a whole new thing way in the future and felt like a western (which I hate), and I almost never wanted to read another Brandon Sanderson book because of it. I LOVED Mistborn until the end of book three. And then I read the first three books of era 2 and I felt so betrayed. I felt like Sanderson had completely lost it. Like he made a wild decision at the end of book 3 and then didn’t know what to do with the story from there, and just decided to forget it all and start fresh in the future with new, annoying, characters, and with a plot that sucked.
In my attempt to see if this was his one and only big mistake as a writer, I tried the Way of Kings a couple years back. I was bored to death by the writing style, and only just finished it this year. It was alright, but not amazing. It was so unnecessarily long and dense, and the writing style was bland with an extra helping of boring. I am literally only planning on continuing because I want Szeth to murder all the boring characters, aka everyone except Hoid.
I also read Tress, which is my favorite of all his books I’ve read. I’m hoping that I’ll like Yumi. The reason I loved Tress so much is because it had style and personality, unlike everything else he writes. I know that not everyone else in the world needs a book to be fancy and extra to enjoy it, but apparently I do. The humor in Tress is my exact sense of humor, and I want more of it, please and thank you. If Sanderson doesn’t give us the promised Hoid book soon I will riot.
I thought The Song of Achilles was so boring. I dnf'd around 70 pages in
I agree so much with Wayne not existing making it better 😂 he tries so hard to be funny and witty but he’s not
second era is the better series for me. or at least one that i've more often reread. mainly because i love Steris so much and wax does not bother me at al.
i'm too full of unpopular opinions that by now i can't even think of one specific one.
Steris is my favorite character in the mistborn world 😅
Steris is the MVP of second era Mistborn.
I literally just finished vengeful yesterday, and while i loved vicious more, i really liked it! I liked june and supported marcellas wrongs all the way 😂
I hated Song of Achilles, I thought Patroclus was a whiny baby. I love Greek myth retellings, I recently read The Silence of the Girls, which is about Briseis, Achilles and Patroclus, and I loved that.
I not sure era 2 works without Wayne, you need someone with Wax who is more reckless to get Wax moving. And era 2 would feel much darker without Wayne.
I’m surprised there seems to be a lot of dislike for the character based off the comments. But he is my favorite character in era 2 and I also think Sanderson and I share a sense of humor so idk…..
Yessss sameeeee about song of Achilles!!!!!!
re Wayne, I kind of agree. I think a lot of us wanted to see more personal growth in him over the books, but he is kind of the exact same, just more insightful.
re ACOTAR I only listened to the graphic audio, doubt I would have the patience to physically read it, but even so through the first book I thoroughly exercised my eyeballs ability to roll. But eventually I did get caught up in it and ended up loving it. And through personal experience I'd say my unpopular opinion is that the people who love to hate on it are book snobs. But the hate for ACOTAR also goes hand in hand with the way society in general tends to hate on whatever girls love, be it music, film, books etc.
re Adaptations I disagree completely. I love the WoT show and I think the hate is completely unjustified.
This is probably dangerous to say on an Elliott video, but my extremely unpopular Sanderson opinion is that Kaladin got on my nerves during the majority of The Way of Kings. He's grown on me as the series has progressed, but it was rough at the start.
I agree with SJM. And want to add Fourth Wing. I just don't get the hype either way (obsessed with loving or hating them). I tried it and moved on cause they're both mid to me. haha
Cassandra Clare's plagiarism shenanigans in the HP fandom will never make me support her original works.
I can totally understand having a book ruined or almost ruined by the author taking it in a different direction. I think it mostly depends on your expectations and how you think it should turn out but there’s definitely been times where I was reading something, there was some twist, big or small, and I was like… that’s the direction you took this? Really?
I have tried to read several of Sarah J. Maas's series and I haven't really liked any of them, which is fine, she gets more than enough love from other readers. I had a similar problem with Cassandra Clare. I have a complicated relationship with books by Mark Lawrence's books - I like his writing but why are all of his characters always angry, and why does he have to repeatedly tell me how angry they are? - but I did really enjoy The Book That Wouldn't Burn. I'm still wading through the second era of Mistborn which so far has been kind of meh but I'm determined to get through it.
The Book That Wouldn't Burn is currently my favorite read of the year!
I didnt like KoS a lot but RoW was soooo good (for me, im sorry it didnt do it for you ahahaha). Im sad you didnt like it but thats absolutely fair (also you missed the cameos in the second half 😂😂😂)
I have a question. Are there any books you like where the audiobook narration makes it even better?
Dnf'd song of Archilles.
I hated Circe and have no desire to read Song of Achilles.
Shadow & Bone is better written than the wheel of time is kinda nuts but I’ll respect it😂
Considering they both frame disability and mental illness as something needed to be "cured" for a person to be whole, yeah, the comparison makes sense to me.
Unpopular opinion, I cannot stand Olivie Blake. I have read Ann DNF, a couple of her books and I’m all forgiving an author a second chance, but every time I do I regret it.
I deeply disliked The Song of Achilles. I thought the characters were so weirdly unnuanced and having read the Iliad, I thought the changes it made to the source material made no sense. Also, the way Patrocles was changed so he and Achilles had a more unequal dynamic really rubbed me the wrong way.
I hated Song of Achilles. I DNF it in chapter 13. It’s sappy, silly writing. I know, I know, unpopular opinion.
I think SJM is meh, not great, not bad, just like most tv series nowadays. I also think the books that get put into book subscriptions like fairyloot/illumicrate arent always great.
My first unpopular opinion is that I've discovered that Brandy Sandy is not my thing. I loved Circe, but haven't read Achilles yet, so maybe will listen to it on Libby before deciding to buy it or not.
Secondly, I'll sit here and listen to El while I eat my breakfast!
I've unhauled everything Sanderson. He's not an author for me. He's below average at best...
I don’t like Wayne, or Wax either really. The characters in stormlight Archives are so much better.
shadows of self is definitely the best one. it also redeems the terrible setup for Wax at the start of Alloy.
also agree about Wayne. Even if he's good in the last book.
I agree 100 % about song of Achilles. Beautiful prose, but the main characters were frustrating. Both of them. One was awful and the other was stupid to fall in love with and put up with him.. I didn’t enjoy their love story because I didn’t think they should be together. Also, the ending was ridiculous. The very end of the story, I mean. It was so cringe. I don’t know if I was supposed to feel moved by it but I just felt ashamed on behalf of the author. I enjoyed the prose so much that even though I hated the story and the characters I would give any other book she writes a chance. I hear Circe is better.
Here’s an unpopular opinion: Modern mythology retellings are overrated. I have read or at least tried to read multiple different books by various authors, and all of them were mediocre at best. I now actively avoid them.
Vengeful IS better than Vicious and I will die on this hill!
Yes! I HATE Wayne, I'm sorry for people who like him but he ruined a lot of scenes for me. I only liked him in the final book. His 'humour' was just not for me
And yeah Song of Achilles was meh. Glad to know I'm not alone haha
i like second era of Mistborn almost more than the first one... my fav is Bands of Mourning... mostly because of New Seran, i feel... i adore the image of it
Same! Bands of Mourning was also my favourite. I loved New Seran and wished we could have stayed there for longer lol. Also Bands of Mourning is where I fell in love with Steris 😅
For me song of Achilles was really good in the beginning but when the war started I wasn't really interested anymore
And that is a big part of the point of the book
Circe is vastly superior to song
I loved Circe, but haven't read Achilles yet. Maybe I'll see if Libby has it.
Wayne was great!!! 😭😭😭
The First Law is a little overated.
The Wheel of Time T.V. show is one of the worst adaptation ever made.
Deadass
Yeah I gave up after the first season
Yeah, I gave up after the first 10 minutes! 😂
That's not an unpopular opinion
There are many bookreaders of WOT who really like the show. Channels are everywhere showing this. Ratings of three last few episodes have been 8-9, and viewer numbers are quite strong. All good if it's not for you, but the adaptation has been fine and trending upwards
My unpopular opinion is that V.E. Schwab is an absolutely god awful character writer. She's got 3 little puppets she shoves into every story and none of them are very interesting or well-developed. And they're all static characters. I've read 3 of her books at this point - Vicious, A Darker Shade of Magic, and The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, and the girls are all the same, the guys are all the same, the stories all have the exact same tone and atmosphere, and honestly they were just /boring/. The woman can't write characters because she's got 3 little dudes in her head she refuses to give up. Or maybe she's just bad at character work. Either way, never reading another of hers again. Those three were mistakes.
Yeah I think she has really cool concepts and book ideas but really meh execution and her character work is a large part of it.
@@devlyn873 Agreed! Thank you for putting it much more succinctly.
@@wallacejames221 and thank you for explaining exactly why I was finding them so meh! 😁
This is a very interesting take - I don't know whether I agree or not until I think about it more, but it would explain why I have never loved a character of hers, despite enjoying most of her stories.