to hate ALL Beast Quest and Sea Quest books

[SnotandBothered]

...even though I haven't read a single one.

DS (7) brings endless Beast Quest/Sea Quest books home from school. Based on the cover designs, I assumed they would all be shit (no pre-judging here :)) so I did read two random pages on one just to clarify, and it appeared to be utter bilge.

I have FINALLY got him to admit that he doesn't enjoy them that much, but he feels obliged to read them because all the other boys choose them - which would be ok, if broken up by things he does like (David Walliams / Michael Morpurgo etc) but it's just endless Quest after flipping Quest and there are millions of the fuckers.

I hate them. I can't bring myself to read them with him and just the sight of the stupid covers makes me feel a bit ragey on the basis that they are too brightly coloured and I hate anything 'fantasy'.

AIBU to insist he stops choosing them?

Countess I agree. Even DP rolls his eyes at reading them aloud.
Snot I think you have captured the magic of the Quest in the two pages that you read

There bad. But i and my brother obssessed over the 'choose your own adventure' series. Really bad.

If he has enjoyed the Wimpy Kid & Tom Gates books he might also like the Timmy Failure series by Stephan Pastis, also the Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce.
All of similar style and very popular with boys in general.

Do you know what books he gets to choose from in school? I'm wondering if someone has offloaded a load of them and they are swamped in BeastSea Quagmire. Can you retaliate by losing each one he brings home and replacing with something decent that becomes the new cool series?

yoshi thanks for the alternative suggestions. I have Christmas to try to lure him away from the next 71 Quests....

I will have a look at them.