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Post by dee on Sept 1, 2008 17:02:59 GMT
Whose writing really bugs you? I had one, but I'm going to rethink it and get back to you, but please discuss.
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Post by stationtostation on Sept 1, 2008 17:17:50 GMT
NICK FUCKING HORNBY
WILL FUCKING SELF
FUCKING TOLKIEN
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2008 18:32:39 GMT
Angela Carter. And Virgina Woolf's fiction makes me yawn, too, but her criticism and life writing is so funny.
Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by idrinkmascara on Sept 1, 2008 19:03:04 GMT
J K Rowling
J D Salinger
Tolkien
Zadie Smith
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2008 20:23:06 GMT
 Actually, I find it helps things go down infinately better if you forget she's an exceptionally good-looking woman who wrote her first novel when she was an undergraduated, and had it bought on the back of a first draft of the first half of the book. It's a good job she's never written anything as good as White Teeth. Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Post by stationtostation on Sept 1, 2008 20:25:44 GMT
The whole modern Booker prize middle brow literary elite can fucking burn as far as I'm concerned. Especially those who attended Oxbridge.
Don't you just love how well thought out and moderate my views are?
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2008 20:41:12 GMT
The whole modern Booker prize middle brow literary elite can fucking burn as far as I'm concerned. Especially those who attended Oxbridge. Usually I'd agree, although burning is so... unimaginative. But White Teeth is actually a genuinely compelling book; there's a hell of a lot going on in there, and it's fucking hilarious. So, yes. Anyone who doesn't like Zadie Smith smells and is gay. Cheerio, Michael. xxx |
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Post by catmiaow on Sept 3, 2008 13:52:31 GMT
Isabel Allende & Margaret Atwood...
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Post by dee on Sept 6, 2008 2:19:20 GMT
Isabel Allende & Margaret Atwood... Oh, I loved Alias Grace when I studied it but haven't read any other Atwood yet. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2008 23:23:10 GMT
All of my choices have been mentioned - Salinger (just not a great writer, although in his defence, he never intended Catcher In The Rye to be his defining moment or the voice of a generation; he wrote it before the whole 'teenager phenomenon' took off, and he always said it was far from his best work. But anyways, I really don't care for that book or its hype), Carter (boring, mostly), Woolf (frustrating, but other than that, I don't know what it is I don't like about her...was she really that full of herself?), etc.
Jane Austen, man. I DO get the point of her books, but I still don't enjoy them. There's just nothing in them that I find entertaining.
Oh I'm sure I'll come up with many, many more. Give me time.
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Post by dee on Sept 7, 2008 3:32:40 GMT
Ah yeah, Austen. I get why she was important for her time, but is she really worth reading about for anything other than socio-historic reasons?
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Post by Elderberry Fucking Fanta on Sept 7, 2008 8:55:29 GMT
...or to imagine how life without TV must be!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2008 21:16:14 GMT
Ironically, I think producers and executives at TV channels are the only people who still like Austen's books, because why the fuck else would we be subjected to 18 different versions of Pride And Prejudice every year, along with a couple of Sense And Sensibilities, and one or two Persuasions.
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Post by admin on Sept 8, 2008 20:43:26 GMT
Ironically, I think producers and executives at TV channels are the only people who still like Austen's books, because why the fuck else would we be subjected to 18 different versions of Pride And Prejudice every year, along with a couple of Sense And Sensibilities, and one or two Persuasions. Because one of them was successful once, and TV executives love nothing more than a formula. Also, those corsets aren't cheap, and they probably have warehouses full of them going to the moths. Cheerio, Michael. xxx |
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Post by kookwekker on Sept 23, 2008 16:10:18 GMT
He has been mentioned already: Tolkien. I tried, I tried really hard, to get past page 50 of The Hobbit, but it was mentally impossible, even though I do understand he's a great writer. Also, to mention a more recent author, I can't stand the books of Khaled Hosseini. I don't know how popular his writing is in England, but here in Belgium The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are the number 1 and 2 in almost every shortlist, for over a year now. Despite, or maybe because of, the hype I couldn't appreciate The Kite Runner AT ALL. It just isn't compelling enough.
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Post by admin on Sept 24, 2008 10:03:56 GMT
He has been mentioned already: Tolkien. I tried, I tried really hard, to get past page 50 of The Hobbit, but it was mentally impossible, even though I do understand he's a great writer. Snap, although I'm not sure I think he's a great writer. A great mind, yes, I love his critical work; but there are few great writers, although there are a lot of competent writers who can manage the balance between plot and character and, well, utter guff a hell of a lot better than Tolkien ever could. Cheerio, Michael. xxx |
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Post by kookwekker on Sept 24, 2008 21:32:47 GMT
Yes, you're right, a great mind looks more like what I meant  Not everyone can imagine a whole world like he did, for instance. And that's where my admiration stops. |
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Post by lightamps on Apr 3, 2009 14:59:40 GMT
Isabel Allende & Margaret Atwood... I know, I know! I know why you can't get Margaret Atwood. I recently read Oryx and Crake. In the beginnning, I went really slow... But the thing that kept me going on is to know what happened to Jimmy's life and his extraordinary intelligent friend. I read until like Chapter 12 or 14, I had to return the book to the library to avoid fines  The part that I found boring about the book's the parts about Crake's children and Snowman being in alone and thinking... But they were essential to the story. Margaret Atwood, to me, I think she has this weird mind and way of relating things from this world and her fiction world. But they're interesting in someway. I think therefore not everyone can get it. I've just got Moral Disorder and hopefully, I'll be able to get through it. |
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Post by synesthesia on Jun 30, 2009 3:04:05 GMT
Orson Scott Card because he is starting to ANNOY ME.
Back in the day he could write a decent book without being to political lecturing what LKH is to gratuitous sex scenes, but now, it's nothing but marriage, morality, monogamy, babies. Not that I am against those things, it's just, do you really need those things hammered at you when you are trying to read a book you're hoping will be good but isn't because every few paragraphs a character has to lecture you about these things over and over and over?
Not to mention that the new version of Ender through the perspective of Bean is terrible!
But mostly I do have a lot of trouble with Tolkien as he is a bit like a large meal consisting of very rich, very old fashioned food. Like boars heads or... I don't know, rich stuff, and you're expected to eat it all and who can eat all of that thick stuff?
Where as other stuff are easier to "eat" because they are like sundaes or cake or something like that.
Most of the stuff that's popular I'm not fond of. I don't like Kite Runner because it's like a college creative writing class to me.
I do not like reading the writer of Eragorn because HE IS NOT A GOOD WRITER DANG IT! He's ripped off much better writers. Plus he uses that stupid annoying lofty I'm such a good writer language that means you're NOT a good writer at all!
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Jun 30, 2009 13:05:34 GMT
My best friend made me read 'The Catcher in the Rye' and it was terrible. I got half way through and gave it back to him because there was no plot. It was boring, tedious ego-stroking. I want to slap Holden in the face.
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