A Popular Book or series that you didn't like.

• The Hunger Games. It was pretty badly written. I've even read all the tertiary series of dystopian fiction that ape it. I can't figure out why this book has so many off shoots of these novels.

A Popular Book or series that every one else seems to hate but you love.

• I'm gonna go with Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. A lot of people seem to hate Franzen for the most illiterate reasons (he uses big words, he's pretentious, he's bad), which are all terrible and unsubstantive critiques. Rarely do I see people really grapple with the ideas in the book. Outside of that, I though Atlas Shrugged was a pretty cool sci-fi story even though there was a ton of horse shit surrounding it.

A Love Triangle where the main character ended up with the person you did NOT want them to end up with OR an OTP that you don't like.

• Literally don't give a shit about this. I expect writers know their characters enough and know about good pathos and bathos in stories to take a plot to places I don't expect.

A popular book Genre that you hardly reach for.

• Probably crime and science fiction. Not that I don't like it, I would love to dive into it. But the big canonical texts from these places seem immensely large (Ben Bova's galactic exploration series is like 10 novels in I think) and David Drake novels look incredibly corny. Although, maybe I should get around to them.

A popular or beloved character that you do not like.

• I don't read YA fiction outside of the big tentpole novels and maybe some of them that get recommeded by book vloggers that I like to watch, but every character modeled after Katniss Everdeen.

A popular author that you can't seem to get into.

• John Green is a corny mother fucker.

A popular book trope that you're tired of seeing. (examples "lost princess", corrupt ruler, love triangles, etc.)

• Love triangles. No tension and if even one of your three main characters in it isn't interesting the entire idea falls apart. Two people is enough. More people should take notes from Warren Beatty's Reds. That's a fucking love story.

A popular series that you have no interest in reading.

• I never limit myself. I just have limited time. All I have are proclivities. I like reading literary fiction more than genre fiction, but there's really nothing wrong with those genres. YA fiction really needs some more innovative voices because it's a lot fan-bait now.

The saying goes "The book is always better than the movie", but what movie or T.V. show adaptation do you prefer more than the book?

Ummmmm...good question. Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 I loved more than the book. But it's been a while since I've visited either. I think recently Frances Lawerence really fucking got The Hunger Games as a concept and Wes Ball also got The Maze Runner. They both jettisoned or diminished the worst aspects of those books and really made some of the best action films of their respective years.