captainfluoxetine said:
Errrmmm, I'd have to say a lot of the poetry compilations.
I dislike poetry, to me its pretentious drivel that anyone could bash out. Its not even proper literature.
Gimmi a nice meaty novel.
Huzzah! I share your views.
I wish I could resurrect Sylvia Plath just so I can kill her myself.
I hate pretentious metaphors, which is what most poetry seems to consist of.
I suppose a book I quite dislike is now To Kill a Mockingbird. I originally liked it when I read it before the curriculum decided it was time to depress some children, being a person of wide-ranging tastes - then came the analysis. My God, that cold, dialectical analysis - it goes on, and on, and on, and on, each apparently-supreme synthesis being given another twenty or so antitheses until all the students could be declared clinically dead.
Luckily Harper Lee hates the book as well because of all the attention and the fact she can't ever publish something that could surpass it - from what I hear she spends most of her time a virtual recluse.
They never mention author disillusionment do they?
Then again, schools wheel out "Death of the Author" analysis to such an extent that the fact of the author's existence and the idea that they possibly have their own ideas on their own book is negligible at best.
This is why I implore all the budding authors that seem to be on this site, when prompted, not to launch into a diatribe on all of the messages you wished to put across (for it will be ignored in favour of the obvious religious symbolism that can be gleaned from "Little Jimmy was mad."), but to simply say: "I wanted to write a book with explosions and bitchez in. I did just that."
