 Hello everybody E here welcome back to top five Friday today. We are talking about five books. This is really authors It's not really in any particular books because a lot of these guys I don't even own the books that turned me off of them, but The these are books that I once upon a time loved, but I hated upon rereading I'm not talking about a slight dislike. I'm not talking about and it's not as good as I remember I'm talking about utterly hated. This is utter Garbage now to me, and I will no longer read them So next week if I can get five of them I'm going to be doing the inverse of this if that's correct I'm gonna be doing top five books or authors that I read that I hated that I have changed my mind about I am still looking through my collection and my reviews, but I can't find five. I've only found three Anyways, so we're gonna jump into this one I'm going to try and do this one in order of the ones that I dislike the most And that's probably going to be difficult, but at number five the Lord of the Rings I'm I might as well go ahead and say I've pretty much quit the Lord of the rereads There are some people still chugging along, but there are other books that I Want to read and I just have no want or need to pick these books up anymore The Lord of the Rings when I first read it I read it just before the Peter Jackson movies came out and I loved it I tore right through all three books, which are technically just one book So I'm just calling this the Lord of the Rings in general I got about three or four chapters into the two towers and I was enjoying it And then I just stopped and I have absolutely no want or need to go back to it because every time I think about it I start thinking about this book and how much I utterly hate it. The entire experience was garbage I even lost two I think two viewers because of my opinion of that first book. That's how I guess that's how Despised my opinion was and it still has the most dislikes out of most of my videos I think there's only two of them that have more dislikes than that But uh, yeah, I still love the movies, but this these books I I don't see what I saw in them to begin with I have no idea what possessed me to enjoy it. I still love the Hobbit So why don't I love these? I don't know jumping into it this one. It's not this book It's basically just this author Richard layman Night in the Lonesome October as well as Hang on here the traveling vampire show these two books. I will never get rid of that's why I have them but I've tried rereading several of his books from Way back when I really loved his stuff I tore through all of his stuff and probably like two or three years and I read everything And I usually read his books within one or two days now I can't seem to finish one and I refuse to go back and retry the night in the Lonesome October and The traveling vampire show because I don't want to ruin my love for those books So I'm leaving those books alone, but yeah Richard layman men I am past that point in my life where I found him entertaining I just don't find him entertaining anymore and the more I read him now the more I see how much How how many words he overused reused? There's the running joke that rump is in like 50 million times He writes the word rump in his books and it's a lot I would say it's over a dozen per book that he writes the word rump, which is very weird All right next up is one sorry Kevin my buddy Kevin Whitten He has a great YouTube channel if I can remember I will link it down there below He's currently doing a read-through of this author's work And I currently tried to go back and reread some of my favorites for him, but I couldn't do it Michael Creighton especially Jurassic Park I did a book versus movie if y'all want to see that series come back Let me know I stalled out on the witches of Eastwick and I never got that done I just kind of forgot about it if you guys want to see that come back Know Stephen King books or movies, but if you guys want to see that come back Let me know down there in the doobly-doo, but yeah, so I went back and I tried to read several of his things And I absolutely hated him. I don't know why I ever liked him the the tech speak It's not that there's a whole lot of tech speak It's that most of the tech speak is really really dated and the writing is absolutely terrible And when people complain about Jonathan Franzen, they always bring up the fact that he said On the Oprah Winfrey show. Well, I'm a much better writer than Michael Creighton Why am I not as famous as he is and I've got to give Franzen credit He's selling the truth Michael Creighton wasn't that great of an author He was a great storyteller He had some wild ideas and some great stuff that translated very well to film But as far as his writing his writing does absolutely nothing for me anymore And I had to go ahead and give him up. So that's number three All right now at number four, I was going to put this one. No, not number four at number two I was going to put this one at number one But there's one author that from my childhood that I that just has been completely ruined for me But at number two Dean Coons is the fun house. I loved this book so much when I was younger I remember getting it off of a wire rack at Lucky's grocery store in california where I got a lot of my Fiction from that from those wire racks at the checkout. I got a lot of it I pull it down like mom can I have this and this is one of those books And I tried to go back and reread I still love how cheesy the movie is Little known fact. This is a novelization. It's the only novelization that Dean Coons ever wrote Based on a script by Larry Block. Someone told me that Larry Block was one of Coons's pin names also I I can't find that information. So if you guys have links for me, let me know down there in the doobly do But uh, yeah, so Yeah, the fun house this one, uh, the writing was actually this is the closest thing to layman Dean Coons has ever written other than night chills and the only reason I say night chills is because night chills is so Rapey, um, I still like Dean Coons occasionally and I'm doing a chronological read through with my friend Dilly But as far as this is concerned this book completely turned me off and made me realize hey Maybe I didn't care as much. Maybe it wasn't Dean Coons's writing that I was there for Maybe it was his stories and that's all well and good. That's fine But um at this point in time in my life, I am looking for writing I want stuff that really captures me and really touches the heart or causes dread Or there's certain things that I look for nowadays and Dean Coons isn't firing on any of those cylinders um, so Dean Coons, I've Fallen far away from me. He's still really easy to read and I am enjoying rereading his stuff But that's basically because I'm doing it with a friend and we're having a blast doing it mostly because we get to Pick on him together. So at number one is an author that I came to bat for constantly an author that every single time something would pop up about his um Him liking to talk to write about children and sexualizing children and whatnot I always came to bat for him and you know said that you know His books were good. Leave it alone. Nobody has any proof. Don't start any stupid rumors about the man's sexuality If you have any problems with the books talk about the problems with the books um And then I started to reread his stuff and I didn't see the same thing that certain people had brought up And I'm not going to name them. Um, but this I didn't I still don't see that issue I just see some pure hot garbage like the hottest of heart of hot Garbage is john saw man. Um every single one of these books that I tried there's one that I absolutely love is like Um, the right hand of the evil or something like that. I loved it. I loved it Tried to go back and read it man. Oh lord. Jesus. I don't know what the hell happened to me Um, but it was definitely not my thing. Um, I tried to reread this one Which is comes the blind fury and I tried to reread punish the sin the sinners I had all of his books. I collected all of his books hardcover paperback all that stuff I have since sold every single one of those books. Um, I think the book that did it for me was What was it the god plan? If you go read my review, I'm not going to remember to link it. Um, for this video hope maybe I will Maybe I maybe I'll remember because I gotta remember to link kevin's channel also But uh, if you want to go read my review of the god plan on goodreads, it might have spoilers in it That's the book that made me realize how bad he was So I decided to go back and try some of the other stuff I haven't been able to finish a john saw book since I couldn't finish the god plan So what are some of the books that you guys have read or actually this specifically Books that you have reread from let's say your childhood or from any point in your life You've reread them and found out holy shit This is really really terrible. I would love to hear those books. Please stay away from the uh, uh, The books that you reread and end up enjoying it because we will do that eventually Mostly right now all the books that I can think of are steven king So I might just go ahead and knock out that one. But next week. I was also asked to do a top five Uh, women ladies of horror fiction women who write horror. I'm gonna try and get that one out next week Um, but yeah, definitely. Let me know books that you've reread that you hated But you once liked let me know that down there in the doobly-doo And if you have opinions of any of these authors, let me know But if you hate or love Either either way if you hate them or love them, let me know why Expand upon why you hate and why you love these authors But until next time I have any you open you. This has been another top five friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye