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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Naxuul" data-source="post: 1731862" data-attributes="member: 5026">I have two book series I can think of that broke the contract. But not for the normal reasons most people had, these two broke it because they diverged from the main theme of the original series to seemingly become exploration of creepy masturbatory fantasy time. Note that this will contain some spoilers for the Wheel of Time and Hannibal.First is Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. I could deal with it not having a end in sight, a fantasy novel can just be a cashcow as long as it is a fun read. Not necessarily a good read, but something fun enough that I would read it on a road trip. In the last three or four books of the series I felt like the corny fantasy romp about the duality of sexes, along with enough Duneisms to choke a horse, slowly devolved into a very creepy place of mysogynistic sex values. It's like if a corny bad teen drama started splicing in the Spice channel in the latter half of the series.Rand's constant sextastic polyamory storyline, the repeating descriptions of women's clothes and bath cycles, Matt going from trickster boy to oversexed fratboy with no explanation, the constant allusions to Green Aes Sedai having whole hosts of Warders who are either young pretty boys or older rugged types that they sex up constantly. But the straw that broke the camel's back was when all the evil females got raped and sex slaved by the main male villain and then Jordan constantly pointing out the giant jumblies on one of the female villain's new raped sex slave body. I just can't read another one of his books if it has one of those 'author masturbating next to you' feeling scenes.The other series is the Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal series.. which was great up until Hannibal. Instead of being a realistic depiction of violent insanity, psychology and murder.. I felt like it was a book of the writer going out of his way to Mary Sue the title character, giving him gobs of plot immunity and all his wildest dreams coming true.. without one bit of consequence either.What was especially disturbing is that the violence of the previous books, which was clinical in it's nastiness and unrelenting in it's lack of sympathy or humanity, was completely changed. The violence was now Hannibal winning. Something the reader should be proud of, cheer on and hope for. I don't know why but the whole thing had a distinctly sexual tint to it, especially around the end where it was definitively sexual. I could only read another novel by the author if I was assured there were no Mary Sueish characters.If I tried hard I could probably think of several other series of books I felt broke the contract, but those would be minor infractions to the slaps in the face of the above.-Naxuul</blockquote>

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