Authors dissing other authors

Yes, I came across this article yesterday afternoon and was quite pleased to find out that I am/was not the only person in the entire world who found a certain author *gag*

His work is evil, and he is one of those unhappy beings of whom one can say that it would be better had he never been born.



Sweet.

Ah. Nobody can dis quite like some of the best the authors in modern history.

42. Robert Frost, according to James Dickey (1981)

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes....a more sententious, holding-forth old bore, who expected every hero-worshipping adenoidal little twerp of a student-poet to hang on his every word I never saw.

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Bless. Whenever Frost came up in high school, we had to read that (garbled in transmission)ing Stopping in the (garbled in transmission)ing Woods on A (garbled in transmission)ing Snowy (garbled in transmission)ing Evening. My hatred for that (garbled in transmission)ing poem continues unabated to this day, burning with the intensity of 10,000 burning nuns.

I love number 17 and couldn't agree more with Ms. Bronte on this point

*holds out hands, shielding body from onslaught of thrown produce*

milly said:

I love number 17 and couldn't agree more with Ms. Bronte on this point

*holds out hands, shielding body from onslaught of thrown produce*

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No thrown produce from this direction. I'm completely in agreement. I also love Mark Twain's comment on the same author:

Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice,' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Angie said:

No thrown produce from this direction. I'm completely in agreement. I also love Mark Twain's comment on the same author:

Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice,' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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yes...I love to see this...Austen gets all the credit...to me, she doesn't hold a light to Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights...and Anne Bronte's stuff is pretty good too...argh...maybe even Bramwell....wait, nawwww

33. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, according to Gore Vidal (1980)

He is a bad novelist and a fool. The combination usually makes for great popularity in the US.


Didn't work for me.

The pen is mightier than the sword!

It's a scary world.

It truly is.

35. James Joyce's Ulysses, according to Virginia Woolf (1922)
I dislike 'Ulysses' more and more -- that is I think it more and more unimportant; and don't even trouble conscientiously to make out its meanings. Thank God, I need not write about it.

Yet she wrote Mrs. Dalloway...

Concerning no subject would he be deterred by the minor accident of complete ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

Hmm. Has a familiar ring.

Angie said:

Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice,' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Stop reading it then, Twain, for heaven's sake. Buy a few more books.

Priene said:

Stop reading it then, Twain, for heaven's sake. Buy a few more books.

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39. James Jones, according to Ernest Hemingway (1951)

To me he is an enormously skillful f#*&-up and his book will do great damage to our country. Probably I should re-read it again to give you a truer answer. But I do not have to eat an entire bowl of scabs to know they are scabs...I hope he kills himself....

Can we say irony?