What has she written? I have never before heard of Stephenie Meyer. Obviously, I don't rate her highly.Originally Posted by Dark Muse
What has she written? I have never before heard of Stephenie Meyer. Obviously, I don't rate her highly.
She has written this rubbish series called Twilight, which millions of girls have fawned over.
I always liked Rowling. Her attempt at grasping the readers' thoughts and imagination is successful. The stories are interesting. Her writing is excellent.
As for Woolf, I beg to disagree that she is a good writer. She seems more of confused and confusing to the readers. Her fans call her works challenging but, isn't a chalenging piece of reading something that could eventually be understood?
Christopher Paolini, by a long shot
Ubi dubium ibi libertas.
Rowling is most certainly overrated--I'll agree with that.
I've been bored stiff several times when attempting V.S. Naipaul.
That Twilight female-soppy,pathetic,painful , Meg Cabot (aarrrrgghh) and Arundhati Roy (how could the supremely painful God Of Small Things win the Booker.
Eh, who is to say really, beside some academic establishment. Is Rowling supposed to hold some literary merit beside the hook that keeps her readers coming back? She is fine in her own right, but I've heard they're teaching her alongside Dickens and Shakespeare and if she is what will be recalled hundreds of years from now as great then, sigh...
dickens...
i like Rowling and the Harry Potter series... held off for a while, but had to read it for a college class, and got hooked.
i'd go with Lovecraft.
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you read it for college? how interesting- do you mind if I ask what the course was?
Haven't heard that one before but that's very intriguing- I've always enjoyed Lovecraft's works but I've never been able to get into them the way I feel other people do.
He was a very insightful guy. It's too bad he didn't write more. His stuff was always well done.
I read (where?) that Capote, when discussing Jack Kerouac once commented, "That's not writing. It's typing." - Or words to that effect.
I agree with his appraisal.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.
- Mark Twain
Kerouac dissapointed me so much that I stopped reading On The Road by chapter XIII. He's not big deal after all.
And even though I don't like Capote as a short story writter, I agree 100% with him in that commentary on Jack Kerouac quoted by HelloDolly.
Jeff Buckley. I bought every CD and then felt very superior to everyone else. It's perfectly rational for me to stay up all night just in case he comes on TV.
The author of Da Vinci Code. But I'm judging him based on this one book...
I didn't read this 41 page thread but, in case no one's brought it up, James Joyce is THE MOST overrated writer since cuneiform. Seems everyone's afraid to say it's crap.
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