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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Excellent thread, I'll need to give it some thought, though. There are books I've thrown away, such as anything with "Dune" in the title, not written by Frank Herbert. I liked the Nantucket books by S. M. Stirling, but hate-hate-hated the others, the "Change" books. Not one detail, but all of the characters, the idea that SCA and Wiccans would rule the world and speak Elvish. Just all around stupidity.
But an otherwise good book, until you hit a certain sentence, and have to stop reading in disgust? I know it's happened, but I can't recall any specific instances at the moment.
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Yup .... that's the idea. You were really into a book, and then you found yourself going (nahhhh ..... wrong) and suddenly you were "out" of the book and back into reality and never could really get back into the book.
Another example .... I could swear that Frank Herbert changed the color of Fremen mourning from one book to another.
Also ... as I recall, AC Clarke's 2001 originally had them going to Saturn (and not Jupiter) but 2010 had them going to Jupiter in the first book (written, I suppose to make it gel with the movie that had come out between books one and two).
Either things you know from your own experience are just ever so wrong, would never happen, or things where either the author or an editor didn't understand or remember their own backstory ... and it just screwed it up for you.
I'll give you another example ... Stephen King again (poor SK, I love his writing, but his editors suck eggs). In "It" there's a scene where the now-adult characters go visit one of their friends in the hospital ... and a glass bottle of blood being used for a transfusion falls to the ground and breaks.
Well, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but they haven't used glass bottles for blood transfusions for one hell of a long time now .... and stopped long before the period in which the adult characters live.
Science wrong, law wrong, backstory wrong .... whatever it was that made you go "WTF???"
