Well, assuming I ever get to a second date at all, anything by L. Ron Hubbard. I've seen Battlefield Earth, I don't exactly trust the taste of someone who has the text it was based on. Also, anything from the Sword of Truth series, or just anything from Goodkind past First Law. I'm not exactly a fan of the guy's attitude as a writer, ironic I know, his simping for Ayn Rand, and constant use of rape or borderline rape in his books. There are ways of handling themes of sexual assault and abuse in stories, but sprinkling them throughout like they're fucking table salt isn't one of them. Oh and let us not forget the demonic chicken that was pure evil. Beyond some low-tier fanfiction type material, that had to have been the silliest shit I've ever read in any book. [quote][i]The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest.[/i] [b]— Soul Of The Fire[/b][/quote] EDIT: Correction, I just recalled that one author who wrote a female character as carrying things such as credit cards in her vagina. [i]That[/i] was the silliest shit I've ever read.