Thread #4 - We are crazy talkers here!

ADULT DISCUSSION HERE, SO TRY TO KEEP IT CLEAN! UM NO, WAIT! IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, LOOK AWAY NOW! 

This is the new thread as the other was sooo long and had lots of pages. Continuation of our wonderful discussions on Twilight Fanfiction, Books, and Life in general.  But mostly Twilight fanfics... and life stuff that will get me a NOT ALLOWED statement. 

Okay, here is a place to discuss what you are reading, ask for recommendations and complain about the writing.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, so please play nice   

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I have FINALLY started reading Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.  I can certainly see why everyone thinks this was once a fanfic.  It reads just like a fanfic, although I've read much better lemons in fanfic.  Of course, Beautiful Disaster may have been meant for a younger audience.  I'm having a little trouble believing that the college authorities would allow Travis to go around beating people up in the cafeteria without taking some disciplinary action against him, but that's probably just me being a difficult, rational adult.

I flounced that. It read like a bad fic.
Maybe if it was a fic I would be more lenient towards it.

It definitely reads like a fanfic, but I didn't flounce as I liked the story (and I like fanfics  ). I broke my series rule with them and didn't jump into the sequel. I'd had enough of them two by the time I'd finished. I hope you enjoy it.

I have FINALLY started reading Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.  I can certainly see why everyone thinks this was once a fanfic.  It reads just like a fanfic, although I've read much better lemons in fanfic.  Of course, Beautiful Disaster may have been meant for a younger audience.  I'm having a little trouble believing that the college authorities would allow Travis to go around beating people up in the cafeteria without taking some disciplinary action against him, but that's probably just me being a difficult, rational adult.

I loved BD - but that is only because Travis is a great Bad Boy.
Abby just annoyed the hell out of me.
When I first read it, I thought it was a published fic as well - it certainly reads like one.

I have FINALLY started reading Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.  I can certainly see why everyone thinks this was once a fanfic.  It reads just like a fanfic, although I've read much better lemons in fanfic.  Of course, Beautiful Disaster may have been meant for a younger audience.  I'm having a little trouble believing that the college authorities would allow Travis to go around beating people up in the cafeteria without taking some disciplinary action against him, but that's probably just me being a difficult, rational adult.

Ficfangirl, I agree. I forced myself to read this one and I had the same troubles. It reads like Twilight fanfiction. I also found some story flaws that I found kind of cliche and unbelievable. I don't know if the violence and codependency in this book make it an absolute train wreck or an interesting love story. Abby's character is just annoying and Travis is to extreme. I can see the similarities to Bella and Edward. That was the only way I got through it. Even the support characters reminded of Twilight.

I also don't like that the author of the story gets very defensive if anyone posts a negative critique about the story. She says that it's not a YA story and I will give her that, it's not. Scroll through Good reads and Amazon some time for the reviews. She or one of her BNF's have written comments that make you want to grab the popcorn an watch. Reminds me of LiveJournal days and FandomWank. LOL!



And Loopy your Kellan is very distracting in a very good way. OMG! Drool!

I think this week has pushed me over the edge. I have officially cracked.

WTF is this? 

This is a picture I never wanted to see. Thanks for the spoiler Astro.

Are you downloading in pdf or epub format? I used to only do pdf (I dunno know why, before I knew better I guess lol) but now I will only download in epub....I just hate that I did so many in pdf :/

I have never done PDF except for others.  I have a Kindle reader and a nook tablet so I download either mobi or epub.  With calibre I always do epub because it only gives me all the great metadata if I use epub.  It's also really easy to convert to mobi when I want to read something on my kindle. 

Ficfangirl, I agree. I forced myself to read this one and I had the same troubles. It reads like Twilight fanfiction. I also found some story flaws that I found kind of cliche and unbelievable. I don't know if the violence and codependency in this book make it an absolute train wreck or an interesting love story. Abby's character is just annoying and Travis is to extreme. I can see the similarities to Bella and Edward. That was the only way I got through it. Even the support characters reminded of Twilight.

I also don't like that the author of the story gets very defensive if anyone posts a negative critique about the story. She says that it's not a YA story and I will give her that, it's not. Scroll through Good reads and Amazon some time for the reviews. She or one of her BNF's have written comments that make you want to grab the popcorn an watch. Reminds me of LiveJournal days and FandomWank. LOL!



And Loopy your Kellan is very distracting in a very good way. OMG! Drool!

I don't like the author either, she rages against people calling it YA with one breath, then spams all over the place, begging people to vote for it for Best YA read on the GR Choice Awards. WTF, lady?

Plus, the sequel isn't really a sequel, it's just the same story from Travis' POV, which only adds to the whole fanfic feel.

I read the spoiler even though I haven't read the story and it had me laughing.

You see that hill in my Avi - guess what it's called?  

I'm gonna go for something ridiculous like Boner Hill. 
I live by a hill called Cock Hill, so it's not impossible. 

I'm sorry, the joke obviously went whoosh!!

It's actually Pendle Hill which was mentioned in the spoiler.

I promised to never use that word that is the hill you are near again - the wrath of Astro is not something I want to experience!   

Lol, the one time I don't read a spoiler and its involved in the name of something. 
Don't worry I'll take the wrath of Astro as she should really learn not to post Rob/unicorn pics. 

Thank You for the rec. 

I read this and I have to say that i'm amazed of how people come up with this kind of plots. At first I almost flounced because I didn't know what I was reading and it's all confusing but in chapter 6 the author did a little summary in the A/N because she took too long to update I guess she wanted to refresh the readers minds so she did this summary.

And this is a huge spoiler....

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And this summary helped me a lot because I didn't know what the hell I was reading, but this story is so good and I still have some question, but that might just be me.

Thanks.  I'll read this next. 

Yes! I actually look at them for story ideas sometimes. 

I usually set it to over 1000 words.  Anything less is not usually worth reading.

Good tip.  I'll try it.