Meyer's writing is awful: 'The pizza held no interest for me.'
Who writes things like that?!
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Meyer's writing is awful: 'The pizza held no interest for me.'
Who writes things like that?!
Conrad (Nabokov called his style "souvenir shop")
Hemingway
Golding
Stephenie Meyer and JD Salinger. The latter is good but definately overrated.
Yeah, she's trying to be all writing technique-y, but it's just really cliche-y and wasted on that. It just sounds overdramatic, unless if she was saying it in a jokey way. It would be good if it was something other than a pizza!Quote:
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
Personifying the pizza as a work of art - that's priceless. That's just plain old stupid - food "doesn't hold interest." It makes one crave.
And this wonderful phrase is used again, maybe even in the same book: The book held no interest for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allannah
Because that phrase sounds SO fabulous that it clearly MUST be used again.
Gorky Maxim
Paolo Cuelho.
Hemingway... I just find him so dry and vapid. Even his short stories do not intrigue. Hemingway is of no interest to me. haha ;)
oh and I might just agree with Conrad. Though I see the value in his literary endeavors, or why Heart of Darkness was groundbreaking/popular.
Mark Twain? Now that's sacrilege...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brendan Madley
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyer was reall dry, and too consticted; I felt that there was no flow. I like the actual story, but if the prose was a bit more interesting, I would have really liked it.
Oh, yes, Meyer definetly. 'Stifled a gasp' is in a book that is considered literature! Flat characters, and everything, I mean... come on.
I can mention D H Lawrence? In my frank opinion, he was nothing more than a glorified smut peddler, with all the artisitc skill and integrity of road-kill. He is noticed merely because he is shocking, and for no other reason!
Three names keep recurring- Hemingway, Jane Austen and Kerouac.
My vote goes to Hemingway. I don't think he was a bad novelist, just overrated. Kerouac is not really overrated because he's generally considered good pop lit rather than University reading list material.
Twain, Hemingway
And also, with all the King mentions, I think it's only fair to list Lovecraft (who may have already been mentioned---I didn't read all 45 pages....)
Hemingway (for his dry and lackluster prose) and quite possibly Chekhov... I just don't see the appeal in his stories. Not that they are bad or have no merit (in fact I can even sometimes enjoy reading one), but he is always termed as the master of the short story, and I can name a hundred short story writers that are better and have much more substance to their stories. Chekhov's stories do not speak to me, and in fact they rarely say anything... at times they seem so pointless (or so obvious). But maybe I am missing the point?