Editing Approved Literature (section)

==Shunned/Hated==

*'''Terry <del>Good</del>Badkind - The Sword of Truth''': An infamous series full of Terry's [[magical realm]] BDSM, utterly gratuitous rape and torture (Terry's cheap/lazy method of making his main characters look better by comparison), and "heroes" we're supposed to arbitrarily like no matter ''what'' horrible things they do. Badkind himself having nothing but contempt for the entire fantasy genre while bragging about how he was a "serious" novelist and packing the later books with his stupid Ayn Ranting (even when it ''contradicted previous fucking events'') did him no favours.

*'''Stephenie Meyer - [[Twilight]]:''' ...Have you ''been'' on the internet? The series that single-handedly killed an [[Vampire: The Masquerade| entire style of modern fantasy vampire]] for an entire generation of fantasy fans who ''aren't'' sexually-frustrated housewives and/or hormone-addled teenage girls. Though it's a bit old hat to bring up the series with any seriousness, doing so will irritate the scars of bitter neckbeards. (Hey, at least it's less terrible than "Fifty Shades of Grey", which is worse in just about ''every'' measure.)

*'''John Norman - [[Gor (John Norman)|Gor]]''': A cheap knockoff of Barsoom and [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] made notable (as the series goes on) for having a lot of half baked philosophizing, skeevy BSDM stuff and [[/d/|a ton of fucked up ideas about gender, slavery and sex]]. In brief a bunch of bug aliens make a zoo full of humans to live "as nature intended" as misogynistic slaving barbarians and make sure of it [[wat|by incinerating anyone who attempts to develop technology or societies they don't approve of with laser beams. Which they sometimes do to whole cities just for the lulz]]. Also for spawning one of the ''original'' obnoxious apologist Internet subcultures, the Goreans. Spread to Second Life, so go there if you want to burn your brain.

*'''Christopher Paolini - [[Eragon|The Inheritance Series]]:''' A Mary Sue main character, his dragon and a derivative plot. It was written when Paolini was a teenager and it shows. Every single book could stand to lose at ''least'' a third of its wordcount and there are lot of times when the plot grinds to a halt for entire chapters just for the characters to think and ramble about the inanest topics. Less offensive than other stuff on this list since it lacks traits such as bootlicking fans and an asshole-ish or agenda-driven author. The author also put a decent amount of effort into his worldbuilding and actually attempted to address legitimate criticism, which is more than can be said for Badkind, GNorman and Smeyer. If you must, start in book two and read his cousin's story, he is a farm boy turned blacksmith who was getting his dick wet while struggling with a hostile father-in-law, until the civil war reached his hometown and his betrothed is whisked away by humanoid bug-birds, he then murders 200 people with a hammer and deals with PTSD.