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Jul. 11th, 2012 06:01 pmSigh. I need to stay off the Good Reads discussion threads. I'm getting myself into trouble.
The latest? A lady who says that Faulkner was an atrocious writer because of all the grammatical errors and run-on sentences. I could not resist responding and saying, uh, actually, he was an amazing writer - that is called stream of consciousness. It's a specific style of writing. Faulkner broke the rules deliberately.
Robert Louis Stevensen makes me crazy - but he is a good writer. A little flowery perhaps, but an excellent writer. So was Dickens. So was Jane Austen - who wrote in a specific style, which a lot of people like to copy but can't quite pull off.
Also have learned something, although sort of already knew it, bashing writers, books, tv shows, movies, music...gets you nowhere. You just look like a jerk. If you hate it? Don't write about it. Note this is not the same as writing a critical review of something you just read or watched. I'm talking about continuous bashing and mocking. Like what a lot of people are doing with 50 Shades of Grey or with various seasons of Buffy or with the Twilight books.
[ETA: This was from a thread on "if you don't like 50 Shades, don't read it". It's a disturbing thread. A couple of posters ridicule the writing of a woman from Greece who is writing in a second language. I was quite tempted to rip the intolerant bitcas to shreds myself, but refrained. Then one nitwit had the gall to state that someone struggling with English, shouldn't post on an English language forum. Because the English language readers couldn't understand her. Sigh. People, did you wake up nasty self-centered trolls or were you born that way? Anyhow..my latest exchange was with a nitwit who said there was no story in 50 Shades in response to my comment that it was 60% story/40% sex - it is. There really isn't that much sex in that book - well not unless you are used to reading books that have no sex or relatively few sex scenes in them, then yes, there is. But Story of O or Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy, it's not. Then she claimed I called it the greatest love story for our generation. Eh, no. I just said it was 60% story/40% sex - not quite the same thing. So I decided to mock her. Probably not the wisest idea. "I said no, it's not, that would be Love Story, or wait...Gone with the Wind or Twilight or Outlander...and personally, I thought John Green's Fault in Our Stars was the greatest love story of our time, but hey, mileage varies. For the record - while I do actually think John Green's book comes closest to being a "great love story", it has only one sex scene and it is not erotic. Actually it is sort of weirdly awkward, uncomfortable, gross, and touching all at the same time. People are weird about sex in our society. They make into more than it is.]
In other news..feeling crappy again today, so not going to writers workshop meetup.
Work is driving me crazy (obviously or I wouldn't be on Good Reads Discussion Threads, would I? Now that I can't play on LJ - lucky LJ). Can't get anything done. So frustrating.
The latest? A lady who says that Faulkner was an atrocious writer because of all the grammatical errors and run-on sentences. I could not resist responding and saying, uh, actually, he was an amazing writer - that is called stream of consciousness. It's a specific style of writing. Faulkner broke the rules deliberately.
Robert Louis Stevensen makes me crazy - but he is a good writer. A little flowery perhaps, but an excellent writer. So was Dickens. So was Jane Austen - who wrote in a specific style, which a lot of people like to copy but can't quite pull off.
Also have learned something, although sort of already knew it, bashing writers, books, tv shows, movies, music...gets you nowhere. You just look like a jerk. If you hate it? Don't write about it. Note this is not the same as writing a critical review of something you just read or watched. I'm talking about continuous bashing and mocking. Like what a lot of people are doing with 50 Shades of Grey or with various seasons of Buffy or with the Twilight books.
[ETA: This was from a thread on "if you don't like 50 Shades, don't read it". It's a disturbing thread. A couple of posters ridicule the writing of a woman from Greece who is writing in a second language. I was quite tempted to rip the intolerant bitcas to shreds myself, but refrained. Then one nitwit had the gall to state that someone struggling with English, shouldn't post on an English language forum. Because the English language readers couldn't understand her. Sigh. People, did you wake up nasty self-centered trolls or were you born that way? Anyhow..my latest exchange was with a nitwit who said there was no story in 50 Shades in response to my comment that it was 60% story/40% sex - it is. There really isn't that much sex in that book - well not unless you are used to reading books that have no sex or relatively few sex scenes in them, then yes, there is. But Story of O or Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy, it's not. Then she claimed I called it the greatest love story for our generation. Eh, no. I just said it was 60% story/40% sex - not quite the same thing. So I decided to mock her. Probably not the wisest idea. "I said no, it's not, that would be Love Story, or wait...Gone with the Wind or Twilight or Outlander...and personally, I thought John Green's Fault in Our Stars was the greatest love story of our time, but hey, mileage varies. For the record - while I do actually think John Green's book comes closest to being a "great love story", it has only one sex scene and it is not erotic. Actually it is sort of weirdly awkward, uncomfortable, gross, and touching all at the same time. People are weird about sex in our society. They make into more than it is.]
In other news..feeling crappy again today, so not going to writers workshop meetup.
Work is driving me crazy (obviously or I wouldn't be on Good Reads Discussion Threads, would I? Now that I can't play on LJ - lucky LJ). Can't get anything done. So frustrating.