It was a while ago, but Outlander. I fully expected to LOVE IT and soar joyfully through the series. I didn't make it even a quarter of the way through the first one. I was so disappointed.

It's from Arrested Development

There are so many but I think Riley Sager’s newest book, The House Across the Lake is the worst I’ve ever read. I cannot keep reading his books, they are just garbage at this point.

YES! Absolutely hated that ending.

I read all the books as well. I surprisingly like the prequels the best, but the whole series is extremely fun. Especially if you played the games.

While I hate that they did that, I don't think anyone was screwed by the lack of a Forrest Gump movie sequel.

The book is a kind of a mess, just more of the same adventures but worse and even more contrived. At best the movie sequel would have been forgettable, but there's a good chance it would just been terrible and felt like a parody of the original. I will say that Forrest creating New Coke was a good idea, that's the kind of thing that would have fit well into a movie.

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The book has charm, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the movie. It really makes you notice every bit of how ridiculous and contrived Forrest's life story is.

The movie might just be the best adaption of a novel that was ever made. It does an incredible job of portraying these events as something that just -might- be remotely plausible, and keeping you entertained enough that you don't stop and think about it. They knew exactly what to get rid of (astronauts and cannibals were so unnecessary), and exactly what changes to make to Lt. Dan and Jenny to complete their stories in a more satisfying way.

If you hired 100 other filmmakers to adapt that book into a movie back in 1994, I doubt any of them could have made a movie that turned nearly this well.

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I'm still trying to decipher your run-on sentence.

It's not doing justice to say it's inspired by Poland solely.... The author is Polish and Redania is an alegory for Polish-Lithuanian Republic of the 16th and 17th century, but there it ends (and some minor references).

The fantasy is inspired by Celtic, Nordic, Germanic and Slavic mythology, Slavic including other Slavic nations, mostly Czechia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Balkans. This is why the games are so praised in Poland, because they capture that the story is universal for so many people from different regions of Europe. For example the soundtrack are legit folk songs sung in Bulgarian, Slovenian (Witcher 3), Ukrainian (Witcher 2), Belarussian (Witcher 1). The name Novigrad is an existing city in Croatia and so on.

Yup, games are a sequel to the books (except there's a small ummmm retcon lol)

I don't really ever see people getting shamed for skipping books. I do see countless posts of insecure people looking for validation because they didn't finish a book. These literature bullies don't really exist, it's just weird people who need the internet to tell them they it's ok to read YA books, or quit a book half way through

Sadly it's impossible to make any changes to provide equal representation for American voters. The people who benefit from the flaws in the system will vote to maintain the flaws forever.

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To me, good prose has the same qualities as music: it has rhythm, cadences, and modulations of tone and tempo; it pleases the ear.

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Purple prose is completely subjective and changes based on time period. A lot of Victorian-era works are full of it because back then books would be censored and refused by their publishers more easily. A lot of publishers would add unnecessary passages to replace sections deemed too inappropriate for societal morals.

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The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Last couple of chapters just blew it up, and not in a good way

Flowers for Algernon, The Southern Reach Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses, Post Office, Me Talk Pretty One Day

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100% agree that it's a non-ending.

Oops I missed that rule. Sorry! Will go post to r/suggestmeabook. Thank you!