40 Annoying Literary Moments That Drive Readers Up The Wall: As Shared By The Bored Panda Community

I thought the cover designs had to.change due to the original illustrator taking the bony one's hand across the black sands?

I feel you. Got few Discworld novels as pocket size paperbacks, some are no the same size though. And then Snuff - hardcover proper big book.

THIS! Practically all comic book publishers are guilty of this repeated sin when it comes to collected volumes. The readers are also collectors, and want s*** to match! I have 9 volumes of Batman Golden Age omnibuses, which is 17" across on the shelf...only to be disrupted by a totally different style for Silver Age #1. I get, and like, the color swap from gold to silver to bronze fror those eras, but the redesign? Unnecessary and ugly, to boot.

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Except discworld are independent stories in the same world, that's like complaining that Gone with the Wind doesn't share similarities with Annie. So basically, do not speak ill of Terry Pratchett or you don't deserve to read his literary genius. RIP Good Sir.

Irony was.. It was a female author.... :/

That's sad because there are actually some good ones out there. Particularly, Nevernight. That series is spectacular!

I really liked "Memoirs of a Geisha"

Challenge accepted. Care for a book swap, fellow author?

I may not be recalling it correctly, but Last Vampire by Christopher Pike was a series I loved during my teenage years, and I remember the lead being both feminine and badass, but I guess that was potentially due to her being a vampire as much as anything?

Eurípides writes women really well. I like the women in the early Dune novels, first three at least. Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing is smart and funny and generally great. Nathaniel Hawthorne is also good, as is Nabokov (as disturbing as Lolita is, it's well written), Kazuo Ishiguro is excellent. There are lots of terrible ones too, just don't give up on male writers altogether. I just think there are a lot of terrible writers out there, and it's just generally harder for women to get published. As such the general quality of women authors is higher. FWIW all my favorite authors are women.

I don't even read books written by men.

If you like anything sexy but haven't found anything written by a man, try Weston Parker; he writes open door romance.

With that level of logic you MAY NOT READ HARRY POTTER BOOKS. Ouch. See how flawed your reasoning is? Do you know how many "mainline boy(s) lead-role books" are written by women? Or do the rules not apply in reverse to your 3rd-wave feminist view?

And I'd ask if you skip books about a man written by a woman...?

That's funny. As soon as I read that, I thought of Anita Blake, too! But I'm not so sure it's the author as the main character in the Merry Gentry series, while careful with her feelings, still has a full range of them.

I am an editor. Stuff like this annoys the c**p out of me. The author should at least go through their manuscript to make sure it has continuity before it gets to the editor's desk.

I’d add cover art that just proves the artist never so much as skimmed character descriptions.

So, did you miss any?

Actually, the NYT Bestsellers aren't necessarily bestsellers. The list is compiled only partially from sales data, and the NYT does not fully disclose how they create the list. The paper itself has said that it is not "mathematically objective".

Yep. Sounds like OP only reads bestsellers.

With the coming of the digital age, the single category has continued to splinter. For instance, there are separate lists for graphic novels and graphic mass market paperbacks that can also be broken down by children's, young adult, and adult. So Peppa Pig, Thor, and Sailor Moon can all have NY Times #1 bestselling book at the exact same time.

Also.. booksellers find the Bestsellers list VERY easy to manipulate. And, being a "New York Times Bestselling author" doesn't mean being the best selling author, only being on the list of many, many books.

It's not just that. On my shelf, I have a book on historical sewing techniques that's an NYT best seller. It was on the list for 1 week, and while it's a decent book on the topic, I suspect that status had more to do with being in a niche genre and the author having a dedicated YouTube fanbase that pre-ordered. For the rest of her life, though, anything else the author writes can be advertised as "New York Times Bestselling Author".

No, it's cause everybody cheats to get it so it means nothing nowadays

this is called the 'deus ex machina' trope. it's really annoying.

what series?

Like beauty and the beast

Beauty and the Beast??

Look to be honest...Books are not read and used as often as they should. A well worn book borrowed and returned with an observable "read" having taken place is no sin in my world.

I have books that I truly love and I recommend to anyone whose willing to listen. For these books, I have my original copy, and a loaner that I buy from a used book store. No matter how good or bad a book, its available used and cheap from someone. The original I bought stays the way it was when I first read it and each accidental dog ear is a direct memory from a subsequent reading. The loaner is actually a gift I don't plan on getting back but its ok if I do. I currently have a stack of "Cryptonominicon" by Neal Stephenson that I give to every person who brings up bitcoin, cryptocurrency, or something else blockchain related. I'm spending more money mailing them to friends during the pandemic than I spent on the books. With USPS book rate, its cheaper to mail than they can buy on Kindle.

My son is learning to read using the books I learnt to read with over 30 years ago