[ SECRET POST #2387 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋

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Comments

LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

How many of you have been published?

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Completely irrelevant. You don't need to be published to have an opinion about a book, just like you don't have to be a CIA-trained chef to have an opinion about the restaurant meal you just ate.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[vethica]

Don't have to be a chef to know when you're eating a crap sandwich.

(Not that this book is necessarily a crap sandwich. I'm just saying.)

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Come on. Seriously? Seriously?! Look at yourself! You're seriously saying that only published authors can tell whether writing is good or bad! You're seriously arguing that none of us can say that Dan Brown or Terry Goodkind is a bad writer. Come the fuck on, don't be silly, anon.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Twilight.

Enough said.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

I raise you "50 shades of grey".

Crichton fan detected

[(Anonymous)]

LOL

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[siofrabunnies]

Hi Mike.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Now, I have to admit, I don't care for Crichton's books, but if he was here defending his work, that would definitely impress me a lot. It would certainly be a hell of a skill.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, if Michael Crichton rouse from the dead to write that comment we have more than him being pissy to worry about.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[siofrabunnies]

True. I tend to forget who's alive, sometimes. Oops. :/

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[cadremage]

It's easy to lose track of the living. There's just so damn many of them.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[deadtree]

EL James is published, should we heed her opinion about writing?

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's right: one is never allowed to dislike a book unless one is published.

Just like one is never allowed to dislike a piece of music unless one is a successful musician and/or composer.

And one is never allowed to dislike a movie or a TV show or a play unless one is a successful actor and/or screenwriter.

Look, I'm sorry that it makes you upset and ramps up your insecurities when people don't like the things that you like. But you're a giant fucking moron if you honestly believe in the PoV you've expressed in this post.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[cakemage]

By that logic, you're also not allowed to like a book unless you've had one published. Stands to reason. I say that knowing that this is a troll, but eh, I've heard that said in all seriousness more than once.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Go back to bed, Crichton's ghost

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

*raises hand* Published poet here.

My issue isn't so much with the paleontology gaffes (it was written what, 25 years ago? We've learned a few things) but more with Crichton's overhyped, formulaic, almost preachy writing. He has some good ideas ("just because you have the power to do something doesn't mean you should") but IMO can't write a gripping, read-over-and-over-again story.

On the other hand, if someone who hadn't bothered to actually practice their own profession started mischaracterizing and sensationalizing mine, I'd be pissed too.

Re: LOL at all the writing critics ITT

[(Anonymous)]

You are aware that people ususally aren't published because they're such great writers but because a publisher thought "It's shit, but shit I know people will buy!"?