#Krimsonrogue

[shepardstales]

i'm listening to this guy KrimsonRogue on youtube review bad books in detail, and each book he reviews, the video is between 5-7 hours long and jesus fuck does what he goes over, with receipts/screenshots ect, make me feel so much better about my own writing

[skinteresting-enough]

To distract myself from the real life horror unfolding, I decided to watch the first two parts of KrimsonRogue's review of Empress Theresa. Gotta say, this book is kinda hilarious in how dumb it is.

Like, if you thought Bella surviving cliff diving in a storm with zero injuries in New Moon was rich, try Theresa's body surviving a fall into water from 55 thousand feet. I mean, I guess the alien tech she's infused with could've knitted her bones and internal organs and everything back together in the two weeks it took for other people to find said body (and then revive it by putting it in a hot room) (alien tech again I guess), but still... I think my suspension of disbelief just took a leap of 55.000 feet.

I know nothing about this book, so maybe it'll turn infuriating later on, but until then I'll keep watching that review.

[luminouslumity]

Man with PhD Doesn't Know How Libraries Work

[the-kestrels-feather]

My toxic trait is that I watched KrimsonRogue's videos on Lightlark and the rest of the series and thought "I can fix them"

[daybringersol]

FUCK YEAH NEW 8+ HOURS KRIMSONROGUE BOOK REVIEW LETS GOO

[krimson-rogue-quotes]

"This is a romance between a crying doormat and a neckbeard Reddit moderator."

"Hoover has the skill-set to be a talented writer, she just chooses not to be one."

"I didn't want to walk in and instantly hate everything that she had to say. So this isn't going to be a video of me proclaiming 'this is the worst romance story ever!'... especially because After is still a thing."

[dolcechild]

*BASHING POTS AND PANS* WAKE UP PEOPLE KRIMSONROGUE HAS A THREE AND A HALF HOUR BOOK THRASHING OF NOVEMBER 9

LETS GO PEOPLE

[laikaflash]

Can't sleep. An almost 8 hour review of Skyshade just dropped.

After a nap.

[cartoonscientist]

[easolinas]

It's bad to be an advanced reader?

So, watch the above video before reading more. Be sure to see other videos by KrimsonRogue – he’s one of the few Booktubers I follow religiously, and watch every video he makes. I am not entirely sure what this man he’s talking about is on. I have personal experience in this, because – not to boast – I was a pretty advanced reader as a young child. In first grade, I read The Hobbit. The next…

[kaizoku-musume]

It's a Book About NOTHING! | The Missus Review

[uwu-so-eepy]

The way that I would buy a krimsonrogue only fans in a matter of seconds.

[hillbroski]

My writing may be kinda bad and a little cringe at times , but at least a guy on YouTube didn’t make three 7-8 hours videos about how incompetent I am at constructing a story and I’m probably a better writer then the person he did make those videos about.

[luminouslumity]

As someone who's liked Krimson for awhile now, I've been waiting for this day since I saw his review for the first book that I thought I'd share both! They're about fifteen hours in total!

[httpsawesome]

Gotta struck with a really bad headache very suddenly like an hour ago so I will be resting with a video essay and maybe animal crossing. Maybe. But I kind of just feel bluuuuuuuugh

[tossawary]

I started watching a few extremely long reviews of garbage books (and some reviews of better books, but that's not what I'm focusing on here) because 1) I need stuff playing in the background while I work and there's a LOT of time to fill, and 2) I don't have to pay it my full attention (can't give it). I'm not going to be tested on this later. I don't even have to look at the screen.

While I understand "everyone stop talking about garbage books, you're just giving them free advertising, you're being PROVOKED into giving this terrible book free advertising", it is still... fun... to listen to someone pull apart the pieces of a badly written story just to dunk on them. And if the reviewer actually knows what they're talking about in regards to writing and better stories, then you can actually learn a lot. I think that when learning, it helps to study good art and how it works, but it can also help to look at "bad art" and study why it doesn't work. I think that the strings of what a creator is trying to accomplish are often more visible here.

I also picked up some specific tips to keep in mind when providing descriptions! Example: It generally pays to design your world (characters, locations) with more specifics to draw people in. What KIND of sword? What KIND of tree? Also, when people write descriptions, they leave often leave out the sense of smell, which is not always necessary to include, but can be a helpful tool when setting a scene. Like, I already knew this stuff, but it's good to keep specific thoughts / critiques freshly in mind if there's something specific that I want to work on in my own writing.

I'm also super nosy sometimes and I want to know what people are talking about without having to read it for myself. And I know some people find it depressing that writing THIS bad gets published at all and becomes super popular, and I feel that sometimes, but I also find it kind of heartening while reflecting on my own writing and knowing I'm definitely better than that. And I actually like being reminded that I'm not alone in my frustration at various creative industries, and being reminded how much of success comes down to connections and good luck.

Most of all, sometimes I just really need some random book nerd to take me gently by the hand and say, "You're not crazy. It's not just you. This New York Times bestseller, that went viral on TikTok, by a multi-millionaire author, is complete dogshit."

(I haven't read anything super bad recently, actually, but years ago, I read a single Danielle Steel book (from a library, can't remember the title) because I saw her name around a lot and I was vaguely curious if she was honestly any good. That book made me feel nuts with how bad it was. Airport bookshops lied to me about her skill as an author. :( )