Monday, September 11, 2006

Some more hatred of mine

There are some authors that I really, really hate. And unfortunately, I had to read most of them for university. Here is a list of some of them:

Emily Bronte
Oh wah, wah, so you never found a husband. Just shut up about it. If your idea of a love story is to have people scampering over hills abusing each other, then I'm glad you didn't get married. Your "love story to end all love stories" is just a stupid piece of crap that I had to waste a week of my life reading.
Worst Novel: Wuthering "Crappy" Heights

Virginia Woolf
Sweetheart, there is a fine line between describing stuff in detail, and writing books that are so stupefyingly boring that I want to pull my arm off and chew it. Yeah, so it's a garden party put on by stupid villagers looking into ponds and having affairs and looking at clouds or something. I don't care! I could have put on my own village fete in the time it took me to plough through this tripe.
Worst Novel: Between the Acts

Philippa Gregory
If you write a crappy love story, setting it 400 years ago doesn't make it any better.
Worst Novel: The Constant Princess. Poor Katherine of Aragon didn't deserve such a terrible book written about her. Yes, we get it. SHE WAS AN INFANTA.

Milan Kundera
I once had to go to a lecture about this book, and I just sat there trying to harm myself with the blunt end of my notebook. Not really. But you get the idea. Kundera is a really, really, boring writer, and all his writing seems to be like "Hey! Life sucks! Buy my book!"
Worst Novel: The Unbearable lightness of being. Yep. Unbearable is about right.

Dan Brown
Oooooh, that man. Leaving the whole religion thing apart, he's just not a very good writer. Really. I love how his characters seem to always conincidentally know what to do next. "Help! We're in a car driving through Paris! I don't have a drivers licence!" "Don't worry, I used to be a world-championship formula 1 racer, and look! Here's a street map of Paris I wrote on a matchbox when I happened to be having dinner with the Dali Lama!" "And, did you know, that it's nearly the end of the Chapter, so something important is going to have to happen so we can have a cliffhanger!" "Watch out! It's a................"
Next Chapter:
"Watch out! It's a traffic light."
Worst Novel: I can't remember the name of the book that I disliked. What's the name again? Anyone?

That's all the hate for today. I'll try and dredge up some more soon!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Avs,
You're at your best when you're hate-filled!
Thanks so much for remembering my birthday. It arrived yesterday. Thanks heaps for my present - I'm so impressed that it was fair trade!
I'll have to find somewhere to stick the card.
Portia
(P.S. This fake name really doesn't suit me).

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Portia