[ SECRET POST #5933 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5933 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Will be missing a Friday post this week (traveling!). Just a heads up!

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Overrated/underrated authors

[philstar22]

Semi-based on secret 3. What book authors do you think are overrated or underrated?

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

Isaac Asimov is wildly, wildly overrated. The guy had some interesting ideas, he was clever, but he just wasn't much as a writer of fiction. There's only one thing of his I think is worth reading from a literary point of view. And that's not even getting into his personal life. But he's still treated as a god of science fiction.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

DA

His science fact books, however, were very well researched and edited. During the eighties, I always enjoyed looking at his small guides to modern science and science fiction movies. They were a real pleasure to read. They spoke to my inner geek.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[meadowphoenix]

yeah I think that's the thing...he wasn't writing from a literary point of view. Because of that, he's very easy to get inspired by because his writing is essentially philosophical fiction. I'd say that's where his status comes from. His concepts are extremely good.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

Disagree. Sure, his writing isn't literary, but you don't need to be a literary genius to write good genre fiction. His ideas outweigh the writing (which is perfectly servicable for what he was doing)

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[feotakahari]

I’m not into Asimov’s long fiction, but I think he did some clever stuff in bite-size format. Just enough time to set up the plot, not enough time to get bored with the paper-thin characters. Some of my favorites are “Obituary,” “All the Troubles of the World,” and “The Last Question.” That last one got a really good comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/41zsz6/comic_isaac_asimovs_the_last_question/

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

Edward Gorey, of Amphigorey and The Gashlycrumb Tinies fame.

Brilliant cartoonist, horror story aficionado, and polysyllabic wonder. Younger me would always try really hard to check out all of his books out of multiple libraries 'till the librarians were sick of me.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

Yes - also he did some covers for John Bellairs' novels, which are very iconic to me. And Bellairs is honestly a very underrated author in his own right (for kids' horror at least).

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[greghousesgf]

I looooooooooove Edward Gorey. I have pretty much all his books.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

And his Dracula set designs...

LOVE Edward Gorey.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I still have the Fantod Deck!

Great fun trying to Google the living daylights out of those biiiiig long obscure words.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[tabaqui]

Dan Brown. OMG. Awful stuff.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[meadowphoenix]

Who do you think he's overrated by? Like i'd say he's high in the airport book crowd (and I'd ever say that's a fair rating), but generally people don't count that crowd as taste-makers.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

I unmatched with a guy on a dating app last week because he said he was excited for Dan Brown's new book. It was petty and I still feel a little bad about ghosting him, but like... I have one life to live, and I don't want to spend it pretending to be interested in Dan fucking Brown of all authors.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[feotakahari]

His first book, Digital Fortress, is what happens when you optimize for suspense at the expense of everything else. Characters talk around the point because it wouldn’t be suspenseful to say what they mean. Exposition is rushed or neglected because it would slow the pace and reduce suspense. I think there’s something there a writer can learn from, but I’d never take it to such an extreme.

I haven’t read his later work, so I don’t know if he changed any.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[kaijinscendre]

Stephen King. But I just personally hate his writing.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[greghousesgf]

Proust is overrated. Probably going to get yelled at by somebody but I find him very boring.

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

He's a genius

He is boring, though

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[(Anonymous)]

Overrated: Voltaire. I disliked Candide so, so much. I wanted to throw it across the room almost the entire time I was reading it, but it was required reading.

Underrated: Ellen Conford (The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations). She has some notoriety and won awards, but I don't think she gets the same recognition that other children's/teen's book authors I would put her on par with do - like Raskin (The Westing Game) and Konigsburg (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler).

Re: Overrated/underrated authors

[feotakahari]

Shadows in the Sun by Chad Oliver. It’s about aliens, but what it’s really about is colonialism, and how the colonized might respond to it. It’s a cult classic, but I think it deserves higher praise.

I swear to god...

[(Anonymous)]

...I don't have a foot fetish but with every new Barbie trailer I just want to scream about her feet. Her fucking original Barbie toes! Stepping out of high heels! AAHHH!!

Sorry this couldn't wait for a real secret, I just had to get it out of me so I can be normal in public tomorrow.

Re: I swear to god...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Barbie toe,
in a Barbie shoooeeeeee~~

jk, I'm sorry for your situation. I wasn't even aware that there are new commercials out there. We're talking about the live-action adaptation right? Maybe feet fetish is the safest amount of horniness they could put in a movie that's based off of a toy for children.

Re: I swear to god...

[(Anonymous)]

It's a really funny scene!

Re: I swear to god...

[(Anonymous)]

I have no clue as to why adults are excited about a fuckin' Barbie movie.