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Post by ian on Jun 11, 2009 18:29:03 GMT
In order to create a bit of healthy banter I'm asking you to name a writer who you'd give a zero rating. There's nothing like a debate to get those posts flowing So come on, have a ponder and then tell us who you think is overrated and why.
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Post by nwdavies on Jun 12, 2009 0:24:56 GMT
J K Rowling - might not be horror but had to be said!
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Post by Jim on Jun 12, 2009 1:56:55 GMT
J K Rowling - might not be horror but had to be said! my Mrs loves her, but then again she has been with me for 15 years, so obviously she can't be right in the head
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Post by nwdavies on Jun 12, 2009 9:18:49 GMT
I had to read the first 3 Potter books to my youngest. By the time the 4th came out she was reading them herself... thank god! Rarely have I been so relieved at not having to read a book ;D
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Post by Jim on Jun 12, 2009 9:41:58 GMT
my biggest problem apart from them being dull and badly written, and way too long is he is such a wimp. if it was me I would have punched malvoy or whatever his name is right in the ging gang ghoulies.
its as though all british kids in fantasty novels have to act as though they are super duper nice middle class famous five types. why is it never a kid from Brixton or Govan.
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Post by ian on Jun 12, 2009 10:06:33 GMT
(Clap, Clap) Well said Jim.
Potter is a ponce. simple as.
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Post by danielirussell on Jun 12, 2009 10:19:29 GMT
For the record, I liked (liked, not loved) the Harry Potter books (although we shouted drunken abuse at those 40 year old losers dressed as wizards outside Waterstones at Midnight). My beef is with Rowling.
Has anyone read the Writers and Artists Yearbook? This was the red one (2006?) and writers wrote articles about certain areas of the business. Rowling wrote one about agents, I think. Greatly abridged, this is what she said:
Some writers spend years trying to make the big time. I hear their pain. I sent the first Potter to an agent, and they rejected it. The second agent I submitted to accepted it and made me millions. But that first one stayed with me...I know all about rejection and suffering. FEEL SORRY FOR ME!
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Post by Jim on Jun 12, 2009 10:25:12 GMT
still think she is kinda cute though
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Post by ian on Jun 12, 2009 20:13:14 GMT
Compared to how she looked before she went under the surgeon's scalpel?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 12, 2009 20:16:11 GMT
Has she learnt to smile yet? Bloody hell, she's no advert for billion pound wealth, is she? First thing I look for in a woman is a smile. THEN her money...
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Post by ian on Jun 12, 2009 20:34:12 GMT
My look is generally lower.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 13, 2009 1:24:18 GMT
Ah. You must be used to women keeping their money in their pants, then?
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Post by danielirussell on Jun 13, 2009 6:48:24 GMT
In a tragic attempt to get back to the topic, my nominated writer is Ramsey Campbell. Ok, Ive only read 2 books, but they were both awful and very very dull.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 13, 2009 8:14:37 GMT
In a tragic attempt to get back to the topic, my nominated writer is Ramsey Campbell. Ok, Ive only read 2 books, but they were both awful and very very dull. I've found Campbell to be very hit and miss. Which books were these you read? The Hungry Moon and The Count of Eleven are cracking books if you want to give him another try. If however, you've read Incarnate, I sympathise. A book that can put you off him for life. Try the above two, though.
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Post by Jim on Jun 13, 2009 19:27:58 GMT
I've never managed to finish a book by Douglas Clegg
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