Published Books Rant + Thread

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

I want this to be a megathread where you can complain about published books like from GoodReads or smth. But also want to rant

Sooley. I really love certain types of ya fiction (or just fiction). Mainly either books about gang life/urban fiction in general or ya sports books, mainly football and basketball. I was so happy to find a basketball book ABOUT basketball that also talked about somali and sooley's come up from somaliland.

bro the ending of that novel had me heated. istg.

Spoiler: Ending spoilers

After months of grinding to get the top collegiate basketball, getting drafted, and knowing he has his entire family still needing help, bro dies. From like a singular perc 10??? dudes like 6'7 or something I don't remember. He went to a party a girl gives him like one pill, boom that's it, friend wakes up and he's dead

First off, it was out of character. Sooley had that kobe thing going. While his tm8s would be getting laid, he'd be training and working on his (originally) trash jumpshot. So much drive, so much effort. And its not like I wasn't expecting a bad ending of some sort, authors like this, they don't like good or wish fulfillment endings. No they crave that sad shit. But that?! it was so random and uneventful too. The girl didn't even get a punishment she just fled the country ? Like... idk

What book gets you heated like that?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

So, wait was that fiction or non-fiction? Things like that sometimes happen - a person who seems completely fit can just die from having something new introduced to their system. Usually, it means there was an underlying condition (in cases of athlete deaths like this, usually exhaustion from over-training kept him from fighting off the "foreign body" as it would for a "normal" person).
If this was about a real person, speculating on his death, then I can see getting upset with this - and it sounds like either someone is being covered for, or the drug was laced with something nasty... or he was taking performance-enhancing substances that interacted badly with the drug.

The only novel where the ending really got me angry was "Ariel: A Book of the Change"; that poor unicorn, abandoned by its former virgin and likely to die now... A few others annoyed me (like "Portrait of a Lady" - four hundred pages and it looks like she's about to make the same mistakes all over again because the guy she spurned for being poor is now rich? WTF?), but that's the only one that got me mad at the writer (rather than the character).

 

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

So, wait was that fiction or non-fiction? Things like that sometimes happen - a person who seems completely fit can just die from having something new introduced to their system. Usually, it means there was an underlying condition (in cases of athlete deaths like this, usually exhaustion from over-training kept him from fighting off the "foreign body" as it would for a "normal" person).
If this was about a real person, speculating on his death, then I can see getting upset with this - and it sounds like either someone is being covered for, or the drug was laced with something nasty... or he was taking performance-enhancing substances that interacted badly with the drug.

The only novel where the ending really got me angry was "Ariel: A Book of the Change"; that poor unicorn, abandoned by its former virgin and likely to die now... A few others annoyed me (like "Portrait of a Lady" - four hundred pages and it looks like she's about to make the same mistakes all over again because the guy she spurned for being poor is now rich? WTF?), but that's the only one that got me mad at the writer (rather than the character).

fiction. I just don't understand why the author made a pretty consistent character go so off-the rails and just die mad uneventfully.

 

[Vnator]

Oh wow, is be pissed if I got to an ending like that too! Reading it second hand though is hilarious, it's the most random dumb thing that could happen that it feels like a comedy from my end.

Sorry you had to deal with that, it definitely sounds like the author meddling with the natural progression of the story to shoehorn specific beliefs that don't fit with the narrative, or turn it into something else at the last minute to fit some weird idealation they had

 

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

Oh wow, is be pissed if I got to an ending like that too! Reading it second hand though is hilarious, it's the most random dumb thing that could happen that it feels like a comedy from my end.

Sorry you had to deal with that, it definitely sounds like the author meddling with the natural progression of the story to shoehorn specific beliefs that don't fit with the narrative, or turn it into something else at the last minute to fit some weird idealation they had

he's not a sports author, mainly a murder mystery type of guy.

the entire death was like...5-10 pages. I can't even leave a review cuz I pirated it ?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

fiction. I just don't understand why the author made a pretty consistent character go so off-the rails and just die mad uneventfully.

Ah, yeah, I can see where that would be awkward. As non-fiction about a real athlete, it would make sense (and still be a bit infuriariating but at least make sense) but in fiction, either there would need to be some build-up, where he starts rejecting his training and such, or ... well, just something more to it.

 

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

Ah, yeah, I can see where that would be awkward. As non-fiction about a real athlete, it would make sense (and still be a bit infuriariating but at least make sense) but in fiction, either there would need to be some build-up, where he starts rejecting his training and such, or ... well, just something more to it.

the icing on the cake is when they import his mom and family over finally.

And she said "Sooley was greatest college basketball player. Then he died. We loved." or smth along those lines. I don't think we even got a scene with her crying.