How does crap writing like that make the bloody best-seller list? HOW?!?
Because many people care more about the story than about the craft or whatever, and the book is entertaining.
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Jesse - Apr 21, 2005 6:14:07 am PDT #2082 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Apr 21, 2005 6:22:58 am PDT #2083 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And now I feel the need to check out DaVinci Code to see how it measures up.
Don't. For your own good, really, don't. (To be fair, I only read about a third of it, over DH's shoulder while he was reading it on the train, but I was still cringing in pain at every sentence. I had originally planned to read the whole thing just to see what all the fuss was about, but the glimpses I got convinced me otherwise. Wretched, eye-gougingly bad writing.)
Dana - Apr 21, 2005 6:27:14 am PDT #2084 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Because many people care more about the story than about the craft or whatever, and the book is entertaining.
See also: James Patterson, current holder of my "world's worst book" title. Like JZ, I read the whole thing, because I couldn't *believe* the writing was that bad the whole way through.
Calli - Apr 21, 2005 6:29:43 am PDT #2085 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
And now I feel the need to check out DaVinci Code to see how it measures up.
TDVC has a lot of bad writing. I have a high tolerance for bad writing if there are enough redeeming features and, with considerable skimming, got through it to see how it would end. On the whole I was glad I'd read it (mostly because my dad wanted to discuss it with me) and it wasn't eye-gougingly bad, ala Night Travels of the Elven Vampire.
askye - Apr 21, 2005 6:38:38 am PDT #2086 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
After reading PAtterson's flying kids book I didn't think there would be anything worse. But then he wrote a sequel.
Dana - Apr 21, 2005 6:39:15 am PDT #2087 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
After reading PAtterson's flying kids book
YES. That was the book.
t shudder
§ ita § - Apr 21, 2005 7:17:56 am PDT #2088 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damned shame -- I've enjoyed Patterson's work, but the flying kids -- inexcusable. He has written worse, however. They're publishing his old stuff, the stuff he couldn't get published before he got famous.
Aims - Apr 21, 2005 7:21:35 am PDT #2089 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Watched Ray.
Still staring at screen.
Day-UM!
erikaj - Apr 21, 2005 7:34:08 am PDT #2090 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Aims - Apr 21, 2005 7:37:37 am PDT #2091 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I had total disconnect, unless I really thought about it, that it wasn't Ray Charles on that screen. I mean....Damn. And his mother? Wow. And Poor George. And Margie and Bea and just, oh my god.
I've been listening to "Genius Loves Company" a lot, but now? I need the soundtrack.