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I'm waiting for it to open, but wondering if any of the slams on Brown are in there; I recall some English writer calling his work "stool-water" and someone else describing one of his books as his "thrilling manual on how not to construct a sentence" or something similar
I'm waiting for it to open, but wondering if any of the slams on Brown are in there; I recall some English writer calling his work "stool-water" and someone else describing one of his books as his "thrilling manual on how not to construct a sentence" or something similar
Very interesting. It seems to be a trend for famous male authors to bash on Austen for some reason.
15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
14. Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Very interesting. It seems to be a trend for famous male authors to bash on Austen for some reason.
17. Martin Amis on Miguel Cervantes
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 — the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that ‘Don Quixote’ could do.”
Man...I kinda yearn for the day when this sort of thing happened. It's amusing.
Er -- there were exactly as many digs against Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce on that list as there were against Jane Austen.
Recently another Nobel Prize winning author insulted Austen. Forget his name.
Stephen King is ordinarily so positive, he must have hated Twilight with the burning ardor of a thousand supernovas to have said anything as nasty as "not very good" about the author. Plus he said "darn!"
It is such a damn relief to hear someone say that. Okay, read someone type it. You knew what I meant.Stephen King isn't exactly vitriolic, but when he doesn't like a book, he'll say so. Which I find refreshing, since the prevailing mood in publishing right now seems to be that no author should ever criticize another author's work because someone's fee-fees might get hurt.
Oh look. Accusations of envy against those who dare to not like Austen.Which is that they are terminally envious.
I don't know. I generally feel sorrier for the insulter than the insultee. Bile is so unattractive. Well, except in the professional cats, like Oscar Wilde.
It is such a damn relief to hear someone say that. Okay, read someone type it. You knew what I meant.
God forbid writers should actually, y'know...have an opinion on someone else's work.
Oh fuck off, you illiterate peon.Stop that! You're agreeing with me again!
People insult each other all the time. Writers just do it with more style.
Oh fuck off, you illiterate peon.
I like to go to the Shakespeare insult generator for times like these. It provides such gems as:Oh fuck off, you illiterate peon.
Stephen King is ordinarily so positive, he must have hated Twilight with the burning ardor of a thousand supernovas to have said anything as nasty as "not very good" about the author. Plus he said "darn!"