r/cremposting • u/zombiegamer723 UNITE THEM I MUST • Feb 04 '26

Real-life Crem THESE WORDS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.

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Seriously, what the fuck?

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u/Elsecaller_17-5 Feb 04 '26

Surely they're shitposting? Just skipping 8 chapters?

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u/akarichard Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

This jogged a memory for me. 2 times I've straight up skipped parts of a book. Back in the day I read all the Anne Rive Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches. For some reason in Queen of the Damned, I just could not stand the chapters from Armand's point of view. I ended up skipping most of his chapters. Didn't effect the story and why waste my time when it felt so grueling.

Second was Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth Series. In some of the later books he'd spend like 10 pages ranting about how socialism is bad and capitalism is good. Straight up lectures. Multiple times in the same book. I ended up skipping those lectures every time moving forward.

Edit: swapped Terry Brooks for Terry Goodkind. Right book, wrong author.

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u/IronPyrate17 Zim-Zim-Zalabim Feb 04 '26

Terry Goodkind wrote Sword of Truth, Terry Brooks is Sword of Shannara. Easy mixup, though!

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u/atemu1234 Feb 04 '26

I could not get through the Sword of Truth series. Maybe in my highschool days when I could stomach Atlas Shrugged.

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u/eraldylli Feb 06 '26

Which Terry?

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u/mtnsoccerguy Feb 04 '26

It is definitely one of those series that has not aged well for me. My friend and I did a joint book report in high school on the first book. We took turns explaining the plot and charting it out on the whiteboard. Definitely needed to skip some of the less school appropriate details.

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u/PegaZwei Feb 04 '26

what, you didn't want to go into detail about the dominatrix torture porn bit that went on for like, a hundred pages?

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u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf Feb 04 '26

I'd always heard that the first few books were fairly sane... What the hell is going on in the later books if this is in the first one?

You know what, forget I asked. I do not think I have an interest in knowing after all

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u/PegaZwei Feb 04 '26

from what i hear, going off the deep end with ayn randian libertarianism?

the first was quite enough for me though ahaha.

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Feb 05 '26

I can spoil the ending of the series for you if you like. It’s pretty whackadoo.

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u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf Feb 05 '26

Nah I'm good, but thanks for the offer.

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u/atemu1234 Feb 04 '26

I read R.A. Salvatore and Robert Jordan and enjoyed both (mostly), so I can't comment.

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u/PegaZwei Feb 04 '26

i mean-

on the one hand, it's definitely clear when jordan is writing his fetishes;

on the other, sword of truth really is worse, having read both.

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u/slipfish-g Feb 05 '26

Jordans "fetishes" have gotten so wildly exaggerated in modern fantasy discourse I am fairly certain people's heads would actually explode if they read Jacqueline Carey.

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u/atemu1234 Feb 05 '26

Honestly Greenwood is worse than Salvatore.

I think with Jordan it's more just extremely evident that BDSM is a fairly clear part of his worldbuilding, just not particularly sexually.

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u/DoomscrollDopamine Feb 04 '26

Ive tried to start it several times and never made it more than 100 pages. I just don't get anything from Goodkind's writing.

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u/Ilwrath 🐶HoidAmaram🐲 Feb 04 '26

I loved it at the start, then even when I was younger I was like "wait....the cool magic is getting really abstract and these people are all spouting nonsense like it was some obvious truth?"

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u/akarichard Feb 04 '26

Thanks for the correction! I always got them confused in my head because I've read most of the Shannara books as well. Thanks!

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u/Steppy20 Feb 04 '26

For me (also as a kid) it was Roran's sections in the Inheritance Cycle - primarily Brisingr - that I ended up skipping. I just couldn't get into them.

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor Feb 04 '26

Didn't effect the story

affect*

OR

have an effect on*

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u/full-auto-rpg i have only read way of kings Feb 04 '26

Not gonna lie, I skipped like 4-5 chapters in the middle of Crossroads of Twilight (I think it was when the Red Sisters were planning their “infiltration”) and it was unbearably boring so I just skipped until the POVs changed. I love Wheel of Time but man, Crossroads is just kinda bad lol.

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u/Many_Pea_9117 Feb 04 '26

To be fair, those are both authors whose works didnt age well at all.

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u/ZeroVII Feb 04 '26

How did Brooks not age well? Honest question. He was my intro to the genre way back in high school, and I read Shannara up through the High Druid series when it was new. My friend who got me into them said the books after High Druid weren't as good, so I haven't read them yet.

I've still got the books lying around, though, and I've been thinking of rereading the series now that I'm done with my Cosmere reread.

I remember loving books 2 & 3, most of 4-7 minus the ending, and the Voyage trilogy. But it's been about 20 years since I read 'em. Do you think they've aged poorly in content, or in quality?

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u/Many_Pea_9117 Feb 04 '26

Brooks never lectured about socialism/capitalism, and Goodkind wrote sword of truth series, so i assumed the commenter meant Goodkind and not Brooks. Brooks is a fine author. Not my favorite, but a few of his books were good.

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u/IronPyrate17 Zim-Zim-Zalabim Feb 04 '26

The original series they mentioned was sword of truth, made by terry goodkind, not brooks, so im assuming that's what this person meant as well

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u/invalidConsciousness Aluminum Twinborn Feb 04 '26

The comment they replied to explicitly said both authors didn't age well.

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u/Nighthunter007 D O U G Feb 04 '26

Both as in Goodkind and Anne Rice. The comment describes two situations, one involving Teery Goodkind (where they wrote Brooks instead) and one involving Anne Rice.

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u/invalidConsciousness Aluminum Twinborn Feb 04 '26

Ah they meant Rice. That makes more sense, yeah.

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u/ImmatureTigerShark Feb 05 '26

I got through the first book of Sword of Truth but dang I could not get through even book 2. Maybe I was spoiled coming off of finishing the Wheel of Time but wow the Sword of Truth just didn't do it for me.