History Literature / TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles

* {{Artistic License-Medicine}}: When the Nevils are creating tar to waterproof Zyn's boat, they end up getting ''second and third-degree burns'' from the heat. Yet all they have to do to get better is jump in the water and their burns are healed. ''Saltwater''.

* ArtisticLicense-Medicine: When the Nevils are creating tar to waterproof Zyn's boat, they end up getting ''second and third-degree burns'' from the heat. Yet all they have to do to get better is jump in the water and their burns are healed. ''Saltwater''.

* ApatheticCitizens: Nobody does anything about Zyn or the Nevils.

* AngstWhatAngst: People tend to under react to a lot of things

* CriticalResearchFailure

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Zyn

* IdiotPlot

* StrangledByTheRedString: Catherine and Walter

The tale opens with a nuclear war caused by government corruption, in a way that's guaranteed to send any 6-year-old to a [[NightmareFuel somewhat restless]] sleep, followed by an AuthorFilibuster about the abuse of eminent domain laws. If this jars with the colourful FairyTale kingdom depicted on the front cover (which in fairness isn't too bad) then it should. It's like watching an episode of ''HandyManny'' with [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] and [[KillEmAll genocide]]. The title character somehow brings sunlight back to the land of the Muggles, who [[HollywoodEvolution evolved implausibly quickly]] from the survivors of the apocalypse. No attempt is made to HandWave the conditions AfterTheEnd led humanity down that particular evolutionary path, let alone with such speed. The subsequent chapters present a disjointed and incoherent account of the lives of Rah, his brother Zyn and the Muggles, as several years will often be skipped in-between chapters.

* GetOnWithItAlready: The book's introduction drones on for 2,000 words of questionable relevance to the rest of the story — and so, for that matter, do the first two chapters. In fact, the story's major conflict (the CainAndAbel plot) isn't even hinted at until about halfway through.
* HollywoodEvolution

* HowDoIUsedTense: Stouffer has this habit of switching into present tense and back in the course of a single sentence.

** Granted, this would make sense, as the book DOES predate the term in the Harry Potter sense we all know and love... if the author hadn't sued J.K. Rowling over use of the term.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The author has the unfortunate combination of a tenuous grasp of English and a singularly unqualified editor.

* {{Padding}}: Lots of it, but two examples are especially bad standouts:
## A chapter dedicated to ripping off the ''FawltyTowers'' episode "Communication Problems".
## A five-page poem that doesn't advance the plot, or even scan properly, and is bad enough to make a [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Vogon]] cringe.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Among some of the more prominent goofs are the mention of "clouds of radiation", and "third-degree burns" that are healed by ''salt water''.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Take a wild guess as to which beverage "Lemonade Lake" (for reasons unexplored) tastes like. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20021204212021/http://www.geocities.com/bob_darktalon/legendaryram.html The parody]] had "[[ParodyNames Coca-Cola Canal]]".

* DeusExMachina: The [[EscapeConvenientBoat clamshell boats]] in Chapter 13.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: It seems that every story in ''The Ancient Book of Tales'' is simply titled "The Year of" and whatever the story's about. This makes it confusing when say, 500 years are all called "The Year of the Purple Haze".

* {{Muggles}}, surprisingly averted: The Teletubby-like protagonists might be called "Muggles", but they throw random magic around like nobody's business.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:

* AuthorsSavingThrow: There's a revised version that drops the discussion of eminent domain and the "piercing screams for help" line, among others. Sadly, only the prologue appears to have gotten any attention.

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The Calendar is reset by a nuclear war. The problem is that they talk about "Year of the purple haze" (nuclear fallout). Every single year in living memory has been year of the purple haze!

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''The Ancient Book of Tales'', It seems that every story in the book is simply titled "The Year of" and whatever the story's about. This makes it confusing when say, 500 years are all called "The Year of the Purple Haze".

* {{Narm}}: Uh...yeah.

* VanityPublishing: Twice, in fact. The first publisher went bankrupt, then the book was picked up by a new publisher hoping to capitalize on the plagarism controversy...which ''also'' went bankrupt.