For me, it's Prey, by Michael Crichton.
I like sci fi. I like pseudoscience. I think nanotechnology is the future. What I don't like is godawful writing, retarded scenarios, and good ol' fashioned Frankenstein complexes.
The last sentence describes Prey. It's about some software engineering guy being contracted for a nanotech job. For some reason or another, everything fubars, and everyone has to run and hide from swarms of man eating nanorobots. Cue the minor, uninteresting characters getting killed off one by one. Then, the main character blows up some shit. Also, there's some half-hearted conspiracy to take over the world or something, but I had lost most interest by that point.
What really gets me is how incredibly horrible the writing style is. It's the 'so and so did, this, then he that', ad nauseum. Then, there's the nanobots running out of control, killing people for no reason at all, as if Asimov's attempts to stamp out this Frankenstein complex thing was completely useless.
I've heard Timeline, by the same guy, is also fairly bad, especially where the motivations for the big evil guy is to
.
Also, don't read the Conan Chronicles by Robert Jordan. Hurrah for creepy sexual dominance themes, a ridiculous main character, and swords and zappy magic bolts shit. However, what REALLY kills me about this book is the appendix secion, where some mouthbreather makes the point of summarising everything Conan has done. Which takes up maybe 30 pages, each paragraph consisting of one of Conan's books. Which involves vanquishing several pantheons worth of dark gods, defeating a dozen mighty empires, extincting a few rare and magical monsters, and stealing enough loot to purchase half a dozen large countries.
So, what other horrible books have you read?
I like sci fi. I like pseudoscience. I think nanotechnology is the future. What I don't like is godawful writing, retarded scenarios, and good ol' fashioned Frankenstein complexes.
The last sentence describes Prey. It's about some software engineering guy being contracted for a nanotech job. For some reason or another, everything fubars, and everyone has to run and hide from swarms of man eating nanorobots. Cue the minor, uninteresting characters getting killed off one by one. Then, the main character blows up some shit. Also, there's some half-hearted conspiracy to take over the world or something, but I had lost most interest by that point.
What really gets me is how incredibly horrible the writing style is. It's the 'so and so did, this, then he that', ad nauseum. Then, there's the nanobots running out of control, killing people for no reason at all, as if Asimov's attempts to stamp out this Frankenstein complex thing was completely useless.
I've heard Timeline, by the same guy, is also fairly bad, especially where the motivations for the big evil guy is to
build medieval themeparks
Also, don't read the Conan Chronicles by Robert Jordan. Hurrah for creepy sexual dominance themes, a ridiculous main character, and swords and zappy magic bolts shit. However, what REALLY kills me about this book is the appendix secion, where some mouthbreather makes the point of summarising everything Conan has done. Which takes up maybe 30 pages, each paragraph consisting of one of Conan's books. Which involves vanquishing several pantheons worth of dark gods, defeating a dozen mighty empires, extincting a few rare and magical monsters, and stealing enough loot to purchase half a dozen large countries.
So, what other horrible books have you read?
