Secret Sauce of Storycraft

I don't know if you checked out my other video, but this story starts out really interesting and then just kind of degrades into furry porn in a way that I'm just so lost and incredulous that this was ever published and somehow won this award that I am very confused. It's just it was just awful.

I kind of see why this book is on the list, but I also personally liked it, so I don't know.

This one is also a book that I didn't necessarily hate, but I just felt incredible pity and sadness for the author for writing this very embarrassing story. I feel like it is again a little bit of a nothing to me. I expected so much more from Robert Heinland.

And for Philip K. Dick to utterly drop the ball on the execution of this, not answer any of the important or pertinent stories or answers, not even go into any curiosity of this, and to just talk about antiquities is just one of the greatest science fiction sins of all time, and I just can't get over it.

But the story itself wasn't science fiction. It's barely fantasy and it definitely doesn't deserve a Hugo. I feel like this book is the most pandering winner of all of the science fiction winners because it seems like they were just like, "We appreciate what you do, Joe Walton, so we feel sorry for you, so we'll give you an award."

While this book really did wrap up the Fifth Season trilogy fantastically, I really think that this was a well done trilogy, did it deserve to stand alone on the Hugo shelf? No, it did not.

This one is the sequel rule. It really didn't do anything bigger or more special than the first book, which I do think it deserved an award, but the second book, I don't think deserves a Hugo. And I don't think it did anything big or special to be able to stand alone the way that the first book did.

Again, one on paper that I should have absolutely loved, but I just couldn't get into it. I couldn't wait for the story to be done. I just there's something about the execution of the story that just didn't work for me.

This was a fun, enjoyable read. I mean, it's about Star Trek and the conspiracy against the Redshirted Friends. However, how can Red Shirts, a silly, satirical book, sit on the same shelf with the same award as some of the greats of science fiction?

If I had to read one more Mars book, I was going to quit YouTube. I honestly wanted to rip this book in half. I didn't get past 50 pages.

And yeah, I don't think I have to go into it anymore than saying Kim Stanley Robinson taught me to hate his own work with this particular story.

Again, as I've said before in other videos, this one confused me because of the pronoun usage in this story. I couldn't tell who was saying what, and beyond that, I didn't like the story. It should be one that on paper I would like, but I just can't bring myself to pick up any of the sequels or anything else by this author.

Again, another very technically beautiful writer that I just couldn't get into. And I feel like he overco complicated the story in a way that was just a little bit overly confusing and I just didn't care enough to figure out the plot threads and didn't love the story. I just think Zelasny is not for me.

There's something about Leguin's writing that doesn't do it for me. I know it's beautiful. I know that she is technically a phenomenal writer and I know that some of her other stories have truly touched me, but a lot of her novels seem to be very clinical.

This book just frankly should not have won. It's a middle book in a series and it can't stand by itself and it didn't do anything different and it definitely just should not have won.

I felt kind of a little bit a middle ground, kind of a meh for this one. So, this one doesn't appear on either my best or my worst list.

However, I didn't like it. It wasn't a fun book to read. It didn't have a payoff in the end.

Although I do have to say if you're going to be upset with Fifth Season, I would have rather put up there one of the middle books or the end books rather than the first one.

This book isn't my number one because it did do something special for all literary readers, and I appreciate what Harry Potter series did, but it's fantasy and it's a children's book, and this is a science fiction adult award in my opinion.

And specifically, Mirror Dance, which was a fun book, but really it's just about identity and clone of Miles. So, she's kind of like rehashing Miles, but from a different perspective. I don't know.

Yet again, another sequel that is drastically lower than its original installation. I mean, Forever War was on my best my top three best Hugos of all time. And Forever Peace is like a laughingstock.

I liked the Miles Verosigan saga stories and of all of the winners, the VO game was probably one of my favorites. But does it deserve to be on the Hugo shelf with the masters? No.

This one is one that was interesting. It had some cool ideas and a lot of potential, but I personally could not get over the fact that we had to go through a graphic rape scene to understand a character and why she wouldn't have sex with somebody later in the story. And it just it was so gratuitously unnecessary.

And if British sense of humor is not your jam, then this book is going to be a really hard pill to swallow. And that's what happened to me. I didn't think it was funny.