stephen king
stephen king
the main idea with the books is that there are too many not worthy to be read.
Dante Alighieri
John Updike and Saul Bellows
Tim O'Brien too.
Last edited by jon1jt; 02-05-2009 at 04:30 AM.
"He was nauseous with regret when he saw her face again, and when, as of yore, he pleaded and begged at her knees for the joy of her being. She understood Neal; she stroked his hair; she knew he was mad."
---Jack Kerouac, On The Road: The Original Scroll
Strange combination there.Originally Posted by jon1jt
Just curious. Why?
That makes him even cooler!
Stephanie Meyer; William Golding
Little one, Fate might miscarry.
Little one, why do you tarry?
Little one, When May I marry you?
My little one.
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!
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.
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.
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours." -Aldous Huxley
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." -William Blake
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