I thought almost exactly the same thing as the above Troper, but I think maybe the author was trying to be Follow the Leader a bit for his 'novella'... Yes, and I did read the series
edited 24th Feb '11 7:56:39 PM by sabrina_diamond
In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!
Away on the wind~
And he's so unimaginative with his powers >_<
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
That all you got?
Yeah, I do think he's a Marty Stu. Plus, some of the jokes he makes are stupid. His snark seems to turn on and off, not like Max's. I mean seriously, who reacts to a spaceship opening up with "Don't worry, it's probably just Spongebob!" No. Just...no.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
Away on the wind~
His main series of novels are:
Alex Cross - A detective in Washington DC. At least two novels, Along Came A Spider and Kiss The Girls have been adapted for the big screen.
Women's Murder Club - A detective, an ME, a DA and crime reporter. They Fight Crime. Was adapted as a TV series in 2007, it lasted one season.
Michael Bennett - A widowed detective in New York City. With ten kids.
Maximum Ride - A teen science-fiction series with human-avian hybrids.
Other Works (incomplete):
Sail (2008)- a tale of black underwear, black deeds and a message in a bottle.
Swimsuit (2009)
lol
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Official Muffin Watcher
I know what you mean; I've read a couple of books I couldn't stomach enough to finish. I generally do try, but sometimes you just can't...
Don't you try anything, you baked good you.
Away on the wind~
Like Twilight!
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Why does it seem like TV Tropes doesn't know about Daniel X? Is it denying its existance?
edited 26th Feb '11 6:49:14 AM by chihuahua0
Away on the wind~
Yes.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
I would make a page, but I'm afraid I might be too bias.
Should I post my rant in So Bad, It's Horrible?
edited 1st Mar '11 3:42:21 PM by chihuahua0
Away on the wind~
No.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
DEAD
I actually wouldnt mind this series if Daniel would just stop pulling new powers out of his ass.
edited 3rd Mar '11 10:12:16 AM by dmysta3000
GOH! JII! RAH!
-takes out Marty Stu checklist-
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Check.
By the way, is it legal to MTSK a book?
Oh, and another thing that bothered me about the book: A prolouge can't be four chapters! That's going against the purpose of prolouges . Either use only one chapter as a Cold Opening, or combine them into one chapter.
I'm tempted to finding this book and doing a whole essay on the flaws of the book, and how it could be improved.
Do you think it would've been better if Daniel was actually an alien, like the Doctor? The plot would be way, way, way better. In fact, I could think up an episodic story about an alien capturing other alien criminals (although I think that had been done before, right)?
Can someone help me with creating the work page?
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Yeah, I do think he's a Marty Stu. Plus, some of the jokes he makes are stupid. His snark seems to turn on and off, not like Max's. I mean seriously, who reacts to a spaceship opening up with "Don't worry, it's probably just Spongebob!" No. Just...no.PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
edited 4th Mar '11 5:50:30 PM by Collen
Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...Also, Daniel X acts like a Insufferable Genius, who falls for the bad-guy disguised as a girl, Foe Yay much?
In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!
Away on the wind~
Daniel is an alien.
And long prologues aren't always bad. Look at Kingdom Hearts 2.
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KH 2 was a videogame. This is a series of books. And a manga or whatever they're calling it.
edited 5th Mar '11 9:55:57 AM by Collen
Gave them our reactions, our explosions, all that was ours For graphs of passion and charts of stars...
I think the comic-adaption Korean-styled (do they call them manwas?)
At least in video games you can play a prolouge. A prolouge in a book should be short, sweet, and hook the reader. The prolouge was just too long in Daniel X.
Away on the wind~
I dunno. I quite liked it.
Inasmuch as I liked the rest of the series, at least.
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T He main thing I didn't like was the pulling powers out his ass part. If it had started out with him being able to create people, I would be okay, because while that's an awesome power, there's only so much you can do with that. But every chapter it's like he can do everything in the world. I always felt like, why can't he just make a bomb out of thin air and blow up the villain or something. He had no reason to do anything when he could jsut create whatever he wanted.
Away on the wind~
Yup.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
That all you got?
Pretty much everything about his personality bugs me, really.
Cordon Bleu cooking skills out of nowhere? Check.
Bluffing the police by having his parents say he's a child prodigy instead of just saying He's homeschooled? check.
All-knowing about everything? Check.
Only makes one mistake the entire book? Check.
Pretty much the ultimate kind of superpower that has almost no explanation? Check.
Ladies and gentlemen, our unlikeable Marty Stu protagonist!
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
Okay, be prepare for a little venting...
Daniel X is a series created by James Patterson, who created Maximum Ride, quite a famous but conversial series.
Daniel X is definately worst.
One day at the library, I found one of the books from the series (The Dangerous Days of Daniel X) and decided to check it out. It looked like an interesting book, and I just finished reading "MAX" for Battle of the Books, so I brought it home and started to read it...
...And quit half-way through. I rarely do that.
Now here are the reasons why I dislike Daniel X. First of all, Daniel is a Marty Stu. He's a Reality Warper. Sure, there are limits, but that's just the beginning. His parents were killed by the number one most wanted alien in the galaxy when he was young, forcing him to go alone. However, he recreates said parents so he could skip school, so he could hunt down these alien criminals. There is also the "X" part of his name, which shouldn't be there no matter if it's real or adopted.
Next, the alien criminals, which are Villain Sues. According to Dainel, he estimates that if Superman, a Stu in his own right, is on the Most Wanted list, he would be 38th. Remember that Number One killed Daniel's parents, and Superman could protenially destroy the Earth if he wasn't good.
Now, the supporting cast. Daniel creates his own friends to assist him. The problem with it that they seem too artifical. This could be justified, but they reek of flatness and radicalness, and...
...and et cetra. These are just three big flaws that I recall. If I go back, I could do a proper analysis, but half way through, I returned it. Patterson's style of writing in short chapters makes things worst here, because it adjusts the pacing in the way so the prolouge seems longer than it should be, and the rest of the book is shallow and bland. Shallow and bland.
Daniel X isn't even interesting. Its So Bad Its Horrible. A one out of five. And my expectations are lower than most people.
On a related note, Maximum Ride was okay.
Any objections? Agreements?