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[Phyrebrat]

As an alleged fanboy, I have some guilty admissions to make, and wonder if I'm not alone in this regard.

I'd like to hear what you're hiding from us and propose a non-judgemental thread on our secrets. Here are a few of mine to kick off with:

1. I've never read any Tolkien
2. My least favourite Star Wars movie is The Empire Strikes Back
3. I like Jar Jar Binks.
4. I don't understand the obsession with Boba Fett
5. The Stand is one of my least favourite Stephen King books

 

[Ray McCarthy]

1. I've never read any Stephen King, don't plan to either.
2. My least favourite SF movie I've actually watched is Alien, I hated it. I found the book Starship Troopers OK, but I can't imagine watching the film.
3. I liked the little teddy bears in Starwars. There were only three films ever made though.
4. I don't understand the obsession with Boba Fett either!
5. I like Jordan WOT better than ANY GRR Martin and GRR Martin better than Terry Goodkind or Philip Pullman. But I won't re-read WOT, I have 13 hardback of WOT to give away, about 1 and 1/2 unread. I've two big fat GRR Martin books I won't re-read either: Game of Thrones and a fatter Anthology.
6. While I liked The Hobbit and LOTR very much, I do prefer all the Raymond E Fiest and David Eddings books to the Silmarillion!
7. I nearly bought a Biggles book last week.
8. I STILL like Enid Blyton's Famous Five, maybe more than 50 years later.
9. Harry Potter books and DVDs? They're OK, just a slightly more grown up Enid Blyton. Is Percy Jackson the American Harry Potter?

 

[kythe]

1. I've never gotten into any sci fi TV show except Star Trek. I've watched all 5 series.

2. I've yet to read a sci fi book published since 2000.

3. I've never read Stephen King either.

4. I've never been to any sci fi convention.

 

[HareBrain]

1. I've never been to a con. (Only outside one.)

2. I didn't see Star Wars when it came out, and had no interest in doing so, even though I was a ten-year-old boy.

3. Superhero films bore me, including all the Avengers nonsense.

4. So does Joss Whedon's "snappy", snarky dialogue.

5. I hate all science fiction and fantasy but have to pretend otherwise because I'm trapped here and can't get out.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

1. Read Asimov nor do I plan to

2. Understand exactly what differing gravity does to things

3. Eaten my crusts no matter how much it irks people

4. Liked travelling much.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

1. I've never read anything by George Martin.
2. I really liked Dido's first two albums.
3. I've never lied about my age.

 

[anno]

I've never seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Or attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I would've like to have watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
So,unfortunately all those moments will be lost in time...not like tears in rain... Or Time to die for that matter...

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[Dave]

1. Hardly a secret, but I never liked the Star Wars sequels. (No one can understand the obsession with Boba Fett, but I still don't like Jar Jar.)
2. I have never been to a SciFi Convention, though I did go to the Star Trek Experience in Hyde Park (but having watched friend's children preparing costumes for a Comic Con I hold a secret desire to go.)
3. I didn't like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, so I didn't bother seeing the Wrath of Khan at the cinema - probably missing out on the best in the film series!
   
4. I never liked Star Trek: Enterprise TV series or the new films by JJ Abrams. N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A - B - C - or D!
5. I only read three quarters of Game of Thrones (then the TV series overtook the book and I couldn't be bothered to read any more.)
6. I've never read Stephen King, but strangely I have read all the Richard Bachman.
7. Although I loved the Hobbit, I didn't like Lord of the Rings until I read it again, at a much older age.
8. I don't like the film Avatar.
9. I don't rate most Marvel superhero films. (For some reason I've still watched them.)
   
10. I never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I might have seen one or two episodes but couldn't tell you which ones.)
11. I never liked Dungeons and Dragons, or War Gaming (I wanted to play Traveller but few others did.)
12. I've never played World of Warcraft (the only MMORPG I've played is Runequest despite dreaming of something like a MMORPG when I was still table top role-playing and using early text-based and simple graphic computer games.) Now I don't have time.

 

[BAYLOR]

I wish Id never found this thread ! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Run Away !

 

[Vince W]

1. I hated the film Avatar.
2. I can't stand Terry Goodkind.
3. I've never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
4. I've never watched Game of Thrones.
5. I've read a couple of Stephen King books, but I don't rate him very highly.
6. Recently, I've found Honor Harringtion becoming rather tedious.
7. I don't like any of David Weber's non-Harrington books.
8. I never finished watching either Battlestar Galactica series.

 

[BAYLOR]

Ive never watched and episode of Madmen or Breaking Bad, neither show appealed to me.

 

[Juliana]

1. I've never liked Star Trek or Doctor Who
2. I hated The Matrix and could never understand why it was such a hit
3. Like @Phyrebrat, I never understood the Boba Fett obsession
4. Until I moved away from Brazil for university I thought Dungeons and Dragons was just a cutesy kids TV show

 

[Foxbat]

I've never been able to grasp what is so great about these conventions. I've been to one and it did very little for me, although I did meet Brian, Mark Robson and Winter's Sorrow.

I've never seen the attraction of a mobile phone (it's just voluntary tagging in my opinion).

I also have never understood the Boba Fett thing.

I never liked Buffy and I don't like Marvel: Agents Of Shield.

I've never been able to sit through a whole Harry Potter movie and always end up going away to do something less boring instead.

 

[Hex]

I have never managed to read a Scott Lynch or a George Martin. I only managed the first episode of Game of Thrones.

Although I love Buffy, Firefly and Dollhouse with deep and fervent passion, I can't find anything much to enjoy in the Marvel films.

I get really badly scared by horror, so much so that I can't read it any more.

If a book has maps/ a character list/ set of heraldic rules at the front, I immediately feel my heart sinking.

I struggle with a lot of historical fiction.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I loathed Avatar too. Every single cliche in the book... then some more cliches.

 

[BAYLOR]

I loathed Avatar too. Every single cliche in the book... then some more cliches.

And we're getting sequels.

 

[Venusian Broon]

oh great thread - just discovered it!

1. Doctor Who bores me to tears.
2. Star Trek bores me to tears.
3. I left Star Wars parked in my childhood. I will leave it at those fond memories. Apart from the Ewoks, whose furry cute nonsense came and smothered my enthusiasm for that universe for ever. I do kinda understand the Boba Fett obsession, but it has essentially been killed off by George Lucas actually explaining his back story. (Like the Force too...)
4. I have barely read any Heinlein. But the first Heinlein book I ever read was The Number of the Beast and that essentially put me off him for life.
5. The only book I've started but been unable to finish (so far) is the bible. I think it needs a serious edit.
6. I'm not fond of trilogies. Or series of books that I need to read five million words to get to the end of the story. If they do they really have to make up for not finishing a big story in a single instalment. i.e. brilliant, stand out and verging on genius.
7. The book is always better than the film version....
8. ....expect perhaps Lord of the Rings, where PJ's films edge it a bit for me in quite a few areas.
9. I quite enjoyed the Harry Potter films.
10. Zardoz is a brilliant SF film.
11. Even including the acting of Vin Diesel, Pitch Black is a brilliant SF film. The sequels are utter pants though.
12. My favourite Peter Jackson film is The Lovely Bones. The music in it always makes me cry.
13. Ah James Cameron where did it all go so wrong - The Terminator and Aliens...then it's all been a slow roll off the those majestic peaks ever since. The club Tech Noir in Terminator reminds me of going to clubs in Edinburgh in the late 80s/early 90s.

 

[Vince W]

oh great thread - just discovered it!

• I have barely read any Heinlein. But the first Heinlein book I ever read was The Number of the Beast and that essentially put me off him for life.

That book would do it.

 

[Alias Black]

1. I don't like star trek.
2. My favorite Star Wars movies were episodes 1-3
3. I enjoyed The Twilight films
4. I play more video games than I read books.
5. I never read Tolkien.

 

[Overread]

1) I've never read any Steven King
2) I don't like all the reboot Dr. Who - I will make a small concession that the latest actor at least looked and acted more like the Dr than all the rest but the shoddy writing
3) I've never been to a convention - I'd like to go but they always end up far far away and at time when I wind out without any cash (and I do feel that one can't appreciate most without some ready cash to hand)
4) Have a distinct problem with reading the last book in a series - its not that I don't want to its that I don't until the author writes another...
5) Remember names very well - even character names at times. So if the character is identified purely by name and there's no "names list" I can get easily lost.