History YMMV / BriansSaga

* FirstInstallmentWins: How many of you even knew that there was more than 1 book before visiting this page?

* NightmareFuel / {{Squick}}: The scene in ''Hatchet'' where Brian swims into the sunken plane to retrieve its cache of emergency gear and sees the plane's dead pilot... after months of rotting in the water with fish tearing at him. He then [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits]] into the water all around himself. This is another of the novel's SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moments - usually such an event is BlackComedy slapstick, but here it results in one of his closer brushes with death, as he's at least a dozen feet underwater at the time and ''inside'' the plane. He nearly drowns before he can struggle out and float to the surface.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: We don't get to see Brian use anything in the survival kit, because some random plane happened to pick up on his radio signal and rescue him before he could barely touch it. The epilogue also mentions that Brian was saved just in the nick of time, because it was nearing fall and the colder weather would have made it much harder to survive, which of course made people want to know how Brian would have dealt with winter. The author received so many letters from dissatisfied writers about these issues that they were the inspiration behind ''Brian's Winter.''

* WhatAnIdiot: Probably the response of many readers after Brian kicked that bear, expecting it to walk away sheepishly.

* NightmareFuel / {{Squick}}: The scene in ''Hatchet'' where Brian swims into the sunken plane to retrieve its cache of emergency gear and sees the plane's dead pilot... after months of rotting in the water with fish tearing at him. He then [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits]] into the water all around himself. This is another of the novel's RealityEnsues moments - usually such an event is BlackComedy slapstick, but here it results in one of his closer brushes with death, as he's at least a dozen feet underwater at the time and ''inside'' the plane. He nearly drowns before he can struggle out and float to the surface.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: While in danger of being attacked by a tornado, Brian just hopes that it hits a moose that he saw earlier.

* FirstInstallmentWins

* NightmareFuel / {{Squick}}: The scene in ''Hatchet'' where Brian swims into the sunken plane to retrieve its cache of emergency gear and sees the plane's dead pilot... after months of rotting in the water. He then [[VomitIndiscretionShot throws up]] into the water all around himself.

* NightmareFuel / {{Squick}}: The scene in ''Hatchet'' where Brian swims into the sunken plane to retrieve its cache of emergency gear and sees the plane's dead pilot... after months of rotting in the water. He then [[VomitIndescretionShot throws up]] into the water all around himself.

* NightmareFuel / {{Squick}}: The scene in ''Hatchet'' where Brian swims into the sunken plane to retrieve its cache of emergency gear and sees the plane's dead pilot... after months of rotting in the water. He then throws up into the water all around himself.

* {{Squick}}: The scene in ''Hatchet'' where Brian swims into the sunken plane to retrieve its cache of emergency gear and sees the plane's dead pilot... after months of rotting in the water. He then throws up into the water all around himself.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The movie sequels are generally agreed to be a FranchiseZombie pretty far removed from their source material, though.

* BetterThanItSounds: It's about a boy alone in the woods with a hatchet

* {{Sequelitis}}: YourMilageMayVary on the quality of the sequel novels. The movie sequels are generally agreed to be a FranchiseZombie pretty far removed from their source material, though.