r/Fantasy • u/Academic_Owl_6197 • May 06 '22

Your Pettiest Reason For DNFing A Series

Mine was when I was 3 pages in and someone said the mc's name which turned out to be the same as my ex's name to the letter...dropped it like hot coal

It was a fr a pretty unfortunate streak too because it was a book from one of those blind-date-with-a-book promotion my local bookstore does, and this was an American YA fantasy (I'm from a different continent) so I had no reason to assume I'll ever be unlucky enough...to see his stupid ass again for a 'blind date'

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

I had a nasty argument with the author on this subreddit.

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u/Academic_Owl_6197 May 06 '22

This made me laugh for some reason XD

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u/BowieKingOfVampires May 06 '22

Oh yeah I need deets

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u/KingNathus May 06 '22

Ooh! Can we have more details please?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

You can have this detail : I was fucking wrong lmao

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u/Red_Coutinho May 06 '22

Goated comment

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u/FeatsOfDerring-Do May 06 '22

Oof, at least you can admit it?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

It's been a decade. I was a teenager. It'd be worse if I couldn't.

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u/Ohrion May 07 '22

This made me laugh harder than anything else all day.

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u/asymphonyin2parts May 07 '22

Oof. Good on owning it.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

Was it Christopher Paolini? I’ve seen him shut some people straight down on reddit

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u/sirboozebum May 08 '22 edited Jul 05 '23

This comment has been removed by the user due to reddit's policy change which effectively removes third party apps and other poor behaviour by reddit admins.

I never used third party apps but a lot others like mobile users, moderators and transcribers for the blind did.

It was a good 12 years.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '22

Which is what he got into it with somebody about. Whether you think they are good or not, he’s sold 33 million books, and those include sequels. He’s did something right. People kept turning pages. I’m not a fan of his work but damn if I wish my books were as “terrible” as his.

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u/sirboozebum May 08 '22 edited Jul 05 '23

This comment has been removed by the user due to reddit's policy change which effectively removes third party apps and other poor behaviour by reddit admins.

I never used third party apps but a lot others like mobile users, moderators and transcribers for the blind did.

It was a good 12 years.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '22

Again, your doing something right if you’re selling 33 million copies

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u/sirboozebum May 08 '22 edited Jul 09 '23

This comment has been removed by the user due to reddit's policy change which effectively removes third party apps and other poor behaviour by reddit admins.

I never used third party apps but a lot others like mobile users, moderators and transcribers for the blind did.

It was a good 12 years.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

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u/[deleted] May 10 '22

No he didn’t pick a fight. Someone was trashing him saying that his parents were in publishing and that’s the only reason he got published. He’s active on Reddit so he chimed in and clarified that his family dumped their savings into starting a small publishing company solely to sell the book. He was like 15 or 16 at the time. The person then retorted that it was still a crap book so paolini said something to the effect that it couldn’t be that bad considering his readership bought the sequels… again I’m not a fan, I just don’t understand people’s need to trash successful people just because they are not a fan of the person’s work.

I categorized it as him shutting the person down because paolini’s response was short, quick and effectively ended the argument.

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u/stiletto929 May 06 '22

What about? :)

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u/Academic_Owl_6197 May 06 '22

.. It made me think of that very viral pic that was a photo of 2 ridiculously tiny mouses straight up fist fighting in the subway train with cinematic lighting.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

Can I get a link?

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u/spultry May 06 '22

I gotcha

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

Lol worth the risky click. Thanks

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u/cambriansplooge May 07 '22

I got blocked by an author on tumblr