crunchy on 5/2/2009 at 03:18
Everyone's entitled to their opinion.
I have read 2 King books but ~20 Koontz books.
fett on 5/2/2009 at 03:19
I find it even more encouraging that he calls Patterson awful. I don't think I've ever read any worse tripe in my life, including the bit of Twilight I read.
Stitch on 5/2/2009 at 04:59
Ha, my thoughts exactly. King may not exactly be Pynchon but he sure could pass for it next to Meyer's prose.
Aja on 5/2/2009 at 06:13
This:
Quote:
"People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's very exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they're not overtly sexual.
"A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet."
is spot on. And let's be honest, we all loved The Shining.
Scots Taffer on 5/2/2009 at 06:26
James Patterson is an excruciatingly bad writer.
june gloom on 5/2/2009 at 08:13
Stephanie Meyer is bad, though she's really just a Mary Sue that made it big.
No, I reserve most of my rage for Dan Brown.
Muzman on 5/2/2009 at 10:14
I get the impression (from weird behaviour surrounding the new book) that she gets a lotta help from her publishing agent and editors.
I think they're a bit more like pop record producers than anyone knows; taking meandering mush with a hook and turning it into a number one (ie laser precision mush with a hook).
Queue on 5/2/2009 at 11:59
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
James Patterson is an excruciatingly bad writer.
It's rather benign pop-lit, for the most part I can't wrap my head around as to why he's
so popular. But, he certainly cranks them out. You can't go for more than a few months without a new Patterson book popping up.
In fact, I don't think there is a James Patterson--it's just a bunch of monkeys, with a bunch of typewriters, being flogged by Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Did anyone read Rowling's new book? I've heard nothing about it...
gunsmoke on 6/2/2009 at 02:25
I have no experience w/her writing, but I saw part of the movie for Twilight. Ugh. Got dragged to it while watching a friend's 12 year old daughter. I fell asleep. When we left, I felt really gay for some reason...;)
And my experience w/King was as an early teenage boy, and he was right up my alley for about 3 years. Can't stand him anymore, though. Especially, his more recent stuff.
