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Terrible, well renowned novelists
Ikrik:
Ahhhhhh I totally just remembered one just now
Paulo Coelho.
I had over 15 people tell me that The Alchemist is an absolutely amazing novel(la). So I bought it at chapters for 50% off and finished it in a single afternoon. Everything was so convenient and absolutely absurd. The kid would encounter a problem, think about it or do something and then solve it. This happens for the entire book. He gets totally conned by this one guy and pretty much just goes "well, that was a terrible experience, but I guess I've learned a valuable lesson."
look out! Ninjas!:
Man, all Shakespeare did was string a bunch of well-known quotes together into some clichéd mess of a story.
Surgoshan:
Well, what do you expect? He was the Michael Bay of the 17th century.
Okay, that's not fair. He was more of a John Woo.
Inlander:
Even though you're only joking, this always bears reading:
--- Quote from: Hamlet, Act II, scene II ---I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather. I have of late, - but wherefore I know not, - lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, - why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
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Alex C:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 05 Aug 2009, 21:50 ---It's the equivalent of prime time television in book form.
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So it IS trash.
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