My WORST BOOKS OF ALL TIME list! (Science fiction)
Here is my list of worst books ever read (in the science fiction genre), along with descriptions and venting by yours truly. Enjoy!
What is this world coming to? I think I'll shuffle off into a corner now to mourn the time I lost on this crap... Sob!
(i) Slave: The Cat Star Chronicles #1, by Cheryl Brooks (erotica, romance, science fiction)
Book summary: I found him in the slave market on Orpheseus Prime, and even on such a god-forsaken planet as that one, their treatment of him seemed extreme." He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy. Cat is an enslaved warrior from a race with a feline gene that gives him awesome beauty, fearsome strength, and sensuality and sexual prowess unmatched by any other males in the universe. Even filthy, chained, and beaten, he gives off an aura of power and virility and his feline gene gives him a special aura. Jacinth is an intergalactic trader on a rescue mission and she needs a man she can trust with her life. She has spent years pursuing her kidnapped sister from planet to planet. Now her quest leads her to a place where all the women are slaves. "Jack" needs a slave of her own-one who can masquerade as her master. Enmeshed in a tangle of deception, lust, and love, they must elude a race of violent killers and together forge a bond stronger than any chains.
Here is a link to my review. (TBA)
My comments: Yep, this is the book to read if you want to read about the last member of a super race... Super in terms of their genitalia, which are described ad nauseam. And no, I'm not kidding. This has actually been written and published. **As a final note and later addition to these comments, I will add that I have discovered that this is actually the first book in a series. Which IMHO proves that crap really can get published and even flourish.**
(ii) Killashandra (Crystal Singer #2), by Anne McCaffrey (science fiction, romance)
Book summary: At first Killashandra Ree's ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him....
Here is a link to my review. (TBA)
My comments: Again, a sequel which manages to take everything which was fun in the first book in this series and wreck it.
(iii) Voices (Babylon 5 #1), by John Vornholt (science fiction, based on the television series 'Babylon 5')
Book summary: Based on the popular syndicated TV series, set in the year 2258, which tells the story of a space station, the aliens who call it home, and the travelers and criminals who make it a port of call. In Book #1, telepath Talia Winters must run for her life through a perilous universe, when she's accused of sabotaging a convention on Babylon 5.
Here is a link to my review. (TBA)
My comments: From this book I learned that women don't have buttocks or rear-ends, they have cans. No, really. This book refers repeatedly to this for some reason. And the story is just really boring (and not canon with regards to the TV show).
There may be more books posted to this list in future. Weep for the future, my friends!! Weep for it!!!
P.S.: I realize that my list may cause some raised eyebrows, or have people label me a pompous twit, as I do list (and savage) several works which are considered classics in the so-called 'canon' (more correctly referred to as the English language or even North American English language canon, IMHO, but that's a topic for another day). My response to that is that it is merely my personal opinion and yours may certainly differ -any pomposity is unintentional. :-)
I do however think that it is important to be open to new points of view as well as to critiques of such works, despite their lofty status to date: several such works are rife with racism, misogyny and other -isms which in my opinion rather obviate the need for their review and reinterpretation.
What is this world coming to? I think I'll shuffle off into a corner now to mourn the time I lost on this crap... Sob!
(i) Slave: The Cat Star Chronicles #1, by Cheryl Brooks (erotica, romance, science fiction)
Book summary: I found him in the slave market on Orpheseus Prime, and even on such a god-forsaken planet as that one, their treatment of him seemed extreme." He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy. Cat is an enslaved warrior from a race with a feline gene that gives him awesome beauty, fearsome strength, and sensuality and sexual prowess unmatched by any other males in the universe. Even filthy, chained, and beaten, he gives off an aura of power and virility and his feline gene gives him a special aura. Jacinth is an intergalactic trader on a rescue mission and she needs a man she can trust with her life. She has spent years pursuing her kidnapped sister from planet to planet. Now her quest leads her to a place where all the women are slaves. "Jack" needs a slave of her own-one who can masquerade as her master. Enmeshed in a tangle of deception, lust, and love, they must elude a race of violent killers and together forge a bond stronger than any chains.
Here is a link to my review. (TBA)
My comments: Yep, this is the book to read if you want to read about the last member of a super race... Super in terms of their genitalia, which are described ad nauseam. And no, I'm not kidding. This has actually been written and published. **As a final note and later addition to these comments, I will add that I have discovered that this is actually the first book in a series. Which IMHO proves that crap really can get published and even flourish.**
(ii) Killashandra (Crystal Singer #2), by Anne McCaffrey (science fiction, romance)
Book summary: At first Killashandra Ree's ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him....
Here is a link to my review. (TBA)
My comments: Again, a sequel which manages to take everything which was fun in the first book in this series and wreck it.
(iii) Voices (Babylon 5 #1), by John Vornholt (science fiction, based on the television series 'Babylon 5')
Book summary: Based on the popular syndicated TV series, set in the year 2258, which tells the story of a space station, the aliens who call it home, and the travelers and criminals who make it a port of call. In Book #1, telepath Talia Winters must run for her life through a perilous universe, when she's accused of sabotaging a convention on Babylon 5.
Here is a link to my review. (TBA)
My comments: From this book I learned that women don't have buttocks or rear-ends, they have cans. No, really. This book refers repeatedly to this for some reason. And the story is just really boring (and not canon with regards to the TV show).
There may be more books posted to this list in future. Weep for the future, my friends!! Weep for it!!!
P.S.: I realize that my list may cause some raised eyebrows, or have people label me a pompous twit, as I do list (and savage) several works which are considered classics in the so-called 'canon' (more correctly referred to as the English language or even North American English language canon, IMHO, but that's a topic for another day). My response to that is that it is merely my personal opinion and yours may certainly differ -any pomposity is unintentional. :-)
I do however think that it is important to be open to new points of view as well as to critiques of such works, despite their lofty status to date: several such works are rife with racism, misogyny and other -isms which in my opinion rather obviate the need for their review and reinterpretation.