Exactly what is the point of this post. "I was seeking validation on TikTok and didn't get it, so I came to Reddit for sympathy instead"

The plot didn't make sense, the characters were very basic, racist slurs, constant references to and then there were none by Agatha Christie (I'm talking blatant and every other page) and the whole reason behind the plot was, frankly, astounding levels of ridiculous.

It's been a long time since I've hated a book that much lol

I think it's a better weird to group us book readers under the same umbrella as those people you describe.

That said, it's an extremely worrying trend that mental illnesses have become some sort of fashion statement or badge of honor like this.

I love caring less and less about random online people's opinions. I wish I could care less still, that whatever nonsense booktok has glommed onto wouldn't even show up when I'm trying to find a new book to read. Searching through Amazon for something (just now, I showed up here to continue the search) and I suspect Booktok have boosted this one authors books to the top of the heap. Some author you've never heard of having over 4.5 stars and almost 10k reviews for every single book they've written, all of which were published in the last year? Oh goody "fans".

It always helps me to remember that "fan" is just a shortening of "fanatic".

I posted an opinion of mine about The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and people in the comments say that I was just hating it because it was popular even though I completely stated why I did not like reading the book. Some people are toxic when you have a different opinion than them or the majority. And that applies to any community.

Same lol

Greg Egan is really good for this. He has a couple books where the whole premise is "what would happen if we changed the laws of physics?" For example, his "Orthogonal" series takes place in a universe where the metric of spacetime is Euclidean (in our universe it is Minkowski), meaning there's no fundamental difference between space and time. This changes the way that many things work like the nature of light, electomagetism, thermodynamics, and space flight. In the appendix he has legit equations and derivations to back up the stuff he is describing. It's all very impressive and a little mind-bending, and I'm a physicist myself!

Welp, well there we go ...

7 US states have no minimum age for marrying.

Nah, slated is a common term in the UK for slayed.

All you need to mention is God killing the first born of every egyptian and you can see how much he cares about children.

Take a pass on The Name of the Wind. He's never going to finish it.

Similar to Dresden? The Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka, the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovich, the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne and the Twenty Palaces series by Harry Connolly. All are great and all are first person. Also I just started the Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey and that seems pretty good too.

I think your first issue here is using tiktok

Oh and William Gibson.

Sprawl Trilogy in particular.

David Brin. Stephen Baxter. Robert Forward. Greg Bear. Stanislaw Lem. Kim Stanley Robinson.

I equally recommend any and all of these.

I don't think it's not so much toxic book fans as opposed to you expecting a lot of maturity from TikTok. Get off TikTok, your life will be all the better for it.

Or if you want even more strange, his novel Embassytown is a genuinely unique take on typical sci fi in space.

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This is almost exactly how I rate books on goodreads! Only difference is, I don’t really factor in grammar or formatting.

And I have given a book 1 star before! It was an ARC book and it was absolutely dreadful. Not engaging at all, just a complete chore to read. It was a sci-fi book written by a computer programmer with no background or experience in creative writing. Very interesting concept and premise just horribly executed.

I haven’t read another ARC book since.

(I only finished so I could write a review to possibly help the writer, and to not hurt my NetGalley rating.)

>I just wondered if anyone else had experienced things like this from toxic book fans.

I don't use other online media, so I've been spared your kind of experience. but very occasionally in here I've encountered someone being startlingly hostile and personal over some opinion that I've expressed. there are certain books and/or authors that are just ordained emperors: you deviate from the communal admiration of their outfits at your peril.

it rattles me too, if knowing that cheers you any ;-)

This is why we don't listen to teenagers.

Of course they're not.

But splitting classes into easy and hard (and your school counselors, your family's finances and neighbourhood, your race, your sex, whether you're an immigrant and where from have a lot of influence on which one you're in) is very common. The boring easy classes and overly intense classes are both harmful in different ways. In "college prep" English we read Romeo and Julliet.... translated into modern English. Yes, that was as dull as it sounds. Classes moved slow and killed any potential interest in the subject.

EDIT: My understanding from kids I've tutored here is that before grade 9 classes aren't as split like they are in high school. I would guess kids who read more before high school are more likely to be part of the group in the higher level classes, and the workload is plenty to kill interest to read for fun

Monster Hunter International and The Name of The Wind

Make notes.