Who Here Reads Grisham? - Page 3

SmileyEH · #21 03-15-2005, 04:01 PM

I've read a bunch of Grisham. They're enjoyable, obvious not literature, but when you're relaxing on the couch go gives a [censored]?

-SmileyEH

MLG · #22 03-15-2005, 04:05 PM

dickens ugh. daryn, dickens is what happens when a gifter writer gets paid by the word.

shadow29 · #23 03-15-2005, 04:17 PM

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over. rated.

Faulkner is where it's at.

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Wrong. Someone saying Hemingway is overrated does not understand a lot about writing.

Don't be a lit snob just for snobbery's sake.

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heh. I've read Hemmingway, I can understand that his stuff is good literature, but I don't think that he's the best thing that has ever happened to literature.

It always seemed to me that he kept trying to write well, instead of just writing well.

It's not snobbery for snobbery's sake.

daryn · #24 03-15-2005, 04:47 PM

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dickens ugh. daryn, dickens is what happens when a gifter writer gets paid by the word.

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this is what i've heard. i like tale of two cities a lot. that's really all i can speak for as i have read none of his other works. i'm not really interested in reading anything else of his either. i guess i should have just said i'm a fan of tale of two cities.

daryn · #25 03-15-2005, 04:49 PM

by the way MLG wtf are you doing here posting? you should be out banging supermodels on a pile of cash [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

thatpfunk · #26 03-15-2005, 05:18 PM

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It always seemed to me that he kept trying to write well, instead of just writing well.

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Definetly the case for alot of his later stuff. But The Sun Also Rises (and other early works, plus a few later) contain some of the most simple, yet amazing prose ever written. I find attempting to write simply to be 100x more difficult than the opposite.

jesusarenque · #27 03-15-2005, 05:22 PM

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dude read some hemingway.

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over. rated.

Faulkner is where it's at.

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Perhaps, but The Sun Also Rises is an excellent book. Easily Hemingway's best.

on_thg · #28 03-15-2005, 05:25 PM

Grisham is obnoxiously formulaic. If you've read one of his books, you've already read a good chunk of the rest of them.

I've read all of them except for the current one -- I won't pay for hardcover. Eight bucks for the paperback is plenty stiff.

You won't expand your mind reading Grisham, but so what? It's entertainment.

gvibes · #29 03-15-2005, 05:36 PM

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Perhaps, but The Sun Also Rises is an excellent book. Easily Hemingway's best.

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I'm a moveable feast man, for some reason.

thatpfunk · #30 03-15-2005, 05:40 PM

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Grisham is obnoxiously formulaic. If you've read one of his books, you've already read a good chunk of the rest of them.

I've read all of them except for the current one -- I won't pay for hardcover. Eight bucks for the paperback is plenty stiff.

You won't expand your mind reading Grisham, but so what? It's entertainment.

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You're preaching to the choir dude. As I said, fun beach reading.