So Bad It's Horrible/Literature: Difference between revisions

* Clifford Bowyer's deservedly obscure ''[[Imperium Saga]]'' could rival ''The Eye of Argon'' for sheer bad writing. But [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] by having the characters [[Idiot Plot|toss around the Idiot Ball every five seconds]]. "Legendary" Warlord Braksis sets an invading [[Multiple Head Case|three-headed]] "[[Rouge Angles of Satin|tragon]]" on fire and watches it demolish a town in its death throes, then afterward decides ''it was a bad idea''...but '''[[Moral Dissonance|people praise him for the destruction of their city]]'''. Heroic groups of five fight off hordes of 50 or more without a single injury. Seriously. There are so many races that it's hard to believe that the planet's ecology is intact. There's a reference to a "non-human troll", as if a fantasy creature could be both human and troll. Throw in a sex scene that uses "raging inferno" five times in three pages. That's all from the first book in the series.

* ''Isle of Dogs'' by Patricia Cornwell is a novel so bad in so many ways, it's amazing Cornwell allowed it to be published. Various blurbs compare the novel's supposed snarky black humor to Carl Hiaasen. Too bad Hiaasen can actually write snarky black humor and write it well; Cornwell couldn't write black humor if it meant the firing squad. Featuring characters blessed with such names as Trish Thrash, Unique First, Fonny Boy, Possum, and Hooter Shook; a zillion plots that go nowhere; and some of the laziest writing this side of ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' — one chapter features talking crabs and fish, while another features a dog that can type. As of March 2012, the book has 757 reviews on [http://www.amazon.com/Isle-Dogs-Brazil-Patricia-Cornwell/dp/0425182908/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278865132=1-1 Amazon.com], 625 of which are one star. That's about 83%, folks. You've been warned.

** ''Friday the 13th: Hell Lake'', a Black Flame book, gives Jason [[Character Derailment]]. The author uses stereotypes about him and ignores earlier canon in the process. Jason now hates sex so much, he'll drop what he's doing to kill some rapists ''and'' their victim. He now can ''literally'' [[Offscreen Teleportation|teleport]]; [[Speak of the Devil|just thinking about him apparently summons him]]. At one point, he appears to materialize from a television. Through an unexplained mental bond, he befriends the secondary villain. He has henchmen following him around a few times. He flays a guy and wears his skin and clothing as a disguise. (Ed Gein taught him how to in Hell. Yes, that's canon.) He screams in pain and throws tantrums when he's hurt, and in one sequence he mows dozens down with a machine gun. Most of the characters, who are from the backwoods New Jersey town of Crystal Lake, talk like stereotypical upper-class twits (even the jocks!) and insult people by calling them "fool". And the author [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|keeps referring Camp Crystal Lake as Lake Blood instead of using the correct nickname Camp Blood]]. Oh, and it's a [[Doorstopper]] with pacing problems.

* The last three books of the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series - most notoriously ''Revelation'' - are filled to the brim with continuity errors (the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] is usually strong on continuity), rampant [[Character Derailment]] — the Jedi jumping right to assassinating Jacen instead of trying to redeem him, Jaina becoming a Mando Fangirl, and among other grievances, more stupid character deaths...and finally they put ''Daala'', one of the most incompetent people from the [[Jedi Academy Trilogy]] as well as a war criminal, as '''Chief of State'''. The following series, ''[[Fateofthe Jedi]]'', is just one huge [[Fix Fic]] on that entire stupid premise.

** The book is even worse than previously thought established. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/glenn-becks-new-novel-abo_b_613861.html It turns out] ''The Overton Window'' is a blatant retread of the 2005 thriller ''Circumference of Darkness''. ''Overton'' was even ghostwritten by ''Circumference'' writer Jack Henderson. The only difference is that the names are swapped, and the bad guys in ''Overton'' are left-wing lunatics instead of right-wing lunatics.

* Pacione, Nickolaus. He is a horror writer known for self-publishing unreadable, barely literate, mistake-riddled prose, but even better known for picking fights with everyone on the Internet that dislikes his work (up to and including threatening murder, the rape of their children and the like). Read any sentence of his writings, if you dare.

* ''The Sacred Seven'' by Amy Stout is a deservedly obscure fantasy "epic" which is nevertheless only novella-length. The plot's a [[Cliché Storm]] in which a [[Big Bad]] [[Evil Sorcerer]] is trying to take over the world and playing [[MacGuffin]] [[Gotta Catch Them All]]. The attempts at "originality" are things like forest dwarves and the [[Big Bad]] being a female elf leading a troll army instead of the traditional orc army. But what makes this book special is that it has over two dozen point-of-view characters over its meager pagecount in a large font. Most ''pages'' have at least one POV switch, which can be to a character in a completely different geographic location having completely different adventures. As you might expect, none of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] have [[Flat Character|much of a detectable personality]]. The whole thing reads like an internet round robin written by a bunch of teenagers. Oh, and there's a sequel called ''The Royal Four''.

* The written sequel to [[George Lucas]]' fantasy movie ''[[Willow]]'', ''Shadow Moon'' (No, not [[Kamen Rider Black|that one]]) by [[Chris Claremont]], is a [[Doorstopper]] written in such a mind-numbing style that enduring the lengthy bland descriptions to get to the mind-numbing plot about the new adventures of Willow requires endurance few readers possess. The rest of the trilogy is supposed to be even worse, but confirming this is difficult for obvious reasons.