What are some of your favourite and least favourite troupes and cliches in books and why??

I am reading a book right now with cuss word that aren't technically cuss words. Think fak, lol

In this book I think it because the book is ya so it doesn't have cussing but also the main character cusses. It is mostly just funny but it does snag my attention every time.

I've read lots of fantasy books with unique to their world curse words that I really enjoy though.

I think the difference is the other books the curses make sense to the world. It is a reference to a unique to that world religion for example, not just away around cussing in ya.

Has anyone else noticed this? What do you think? Do you have a favorite curse from a book?

fun little question for y’all: if you could choose one of your favorite books/book series to be adapted to the screen, which would it be and why?

follow up questions to that: would you want it to be a tv series or movie/movie series? animated or live action? and for extra fun, who would you cast for some of the main characters as actors for a live action, or voice actors for animated?

I have been seeing a lot of discourse regarding book cover preferences lately. I wonder if anyone has ever gotten the ick from a book cover? If so, did you still read the book, or was it an immediate no thank youuuu?

Where are my comics people at?!

I'll admit, it's a newer interest for me and it only happened after I gave up trying to like superhero comics.

I tend to like niche, adventurous, darker story lines.

Some examples of what I love:

Saga by Brian k Vaughn (ongoing and I'm behind) - epic space opera. Found family. Lost love. Star crossed love. War and inequity and and and and. I couldn't recommend a story more highly but it is mature in art and theme.

Rachel Rising by Terry Moore (finished)- horror story. The MC unearths herself from a shallow grave with ligature marks on her neck. The story takes some wild slightly historical turns. Magic and murder abound.

Rat Queens by Weibe Upchurch and Sejic Fowler (finished but I'm behind)- a mixed race all woman adventuring group....goes on adventures. Very D&D.

Echo by Terry Moore (finished) - scifi tech story. A super advanced suit fails during a test and falls on two people. Two very different people. Can be violent and bloody sometimes

Bitch Planet by Deconnick DeLandro - social commentary criticism story about a future world where non compliant women are adjusted or detained. It's hard hitting and hard to read but worth it. Very short. Two trades I think.

Any recommendations?

Saga is what hooked me after many failed attempts. It's a story that's burning itself into my heart one issue at a time.

I'm going to get an NC tattoo for "non compliant" from Bitch Planet.

Do you have any graphic novels/comics like that? Any recommendations?