Top Notch Writing

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Top Notch Writing

Batman O'Leary · A.K.A. Damo_Daly I have a cool name...

ddvmor wrote:

"Just as I thought," I thought.

Absolute class!

BrianS · Still Number One

This book won the Nobel Price for literature a few years back (1998 maybe?). It was next to impossible to read. I think it had something to do with the fact that it was translated from Portugese. It had almost no breaks in paragragh. You know when two people are talking and there is a paragraph break when the other person starts talking to signify the switch? This book would just flow from one person to the next with no break in paragraph to tell you that a new person was talking. It made everyone look like they were talking to themselves. Drove me batty. Otherwise it was a good story and all, just a headache to read.

Jose Saramago - "Blindness"

-- Edited by BrianS at 14:15, 2005-10-28

Zem YN3B · Really Bored Matress

Anything Douglas Adams.

Although I must admit I was very disappointed with The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. And with Mostly Harmless.

But otherwise, anything Douglas Adams.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Adams is fantastic.

Pratchett's use of language is always great. And always getting better.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Pratchett and Gaiman together are magnificent.

I heart Gaiman as well.. I met him and he scared me.

Dan Brown is either the greatest writer ever because he knew how to write to the lowest common denominator thus ensuring that he would sell 8 gajillion copies of his books, OR he's the worst writer who is PART of the lowest common denominator and people flocked to him as such. He can tell a good story, I'll give him that much, but the man's writing is more or less on par with "It was a dark and stormy night..."

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I thought Dan Brown sucked, frankly. I read Angels and Demons and The Davinci Code and I thought his prose was sucky. His plots were sucky (and almost identical) and the whole thing smacked of a guy trying to show off some stuff that he read somewhere.

Gaiman on the other hand is a god. Neverewhere was a bit amateurish in it's prose, but his storytelling is fantastic and when he got to American Gods it was just glorious. I met him last year and he was cool. We discussed the role of jam in literature and his large nose. He's in Bristol signing his new book Anansi Boys while I'm on my hols. I may go and meet him again!

-- Edited by ddvmor at 19:51, 2005-11-01

bonniepirateanne · Date: Nov 8, 2005

i agree with pratchett - the first time i read him i hated the book, then a few years later i got addicted and nearly read every one..

dan brown was ok, come oonnnnnn

and i would like to add to the list j kk rowling - anyone who can write and entertain both kids and adults and me alike are pure genius - GENIUS!

(did you know that she's the richest author in the world! goooo jkr)

bonniepirateanne · Date: Nov 8, 2005

oh and i just read the 5 books in a trilogy thing by douglas adams.. the first few were awesome, i was getting realllly weary with them at the end - i know i know - it's just like he started to get so ridiculously far-fetched and stupid -

silly is good, stupid is not

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Books 1-4 were great. I think So Long And Thanks For All The Fish is actually my favourite. Mostly Harmless was pants, though. Apparently he was chronically depressed when he wrote it. It kinda shows.