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| DjConfessions |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
and honestly i didn't think the da vinci code was that well written. it was a great story and the subject made it fascinating, but i don't think dan brown is that great a writer... |
true that. I think thats what everyone actually feels inside. Fascinating story that wasn't told in the best fashion |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-T
i saw something like that a while ago too, if we're talking about the same thing it was hella biased.
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well we might be. they basically said that the documents in the french national archives were a forgery. now who knows...i mean you're right it was a little biased because they just kind of blanketed plantarch as someone mentally unstable, but really...didn't give any reasons for it. i thought it was all interesting though...makes you wonder...
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
i think his books are very accessible and they reel you in and get you hooked, kind of like a bad movie or bad TV show... i admit i actually enjoyed the plot of The DaVinci Code and Angels & Demons, but the thing that bothered me most about both books was the cheesy romance storylines between Robert Langdon and his female counterparts. i feel like it's there just to appeal to the type of women who read Nicholas Sparks and watch Oprah and read whatever books she recommends. i actually got in a really huge discussion out at a bar one time because i said that the books wouldn't be half as entertaining if Langdon's sidekick was a male instead of a female.
in the genre of "best-sellers" i think he is a good writer. he knows how to tell a story that makes you want to keep reading, and he appeals to many audiences. it's not brilliant writing or anything that i'd call amazing, but he obviously knows whats going to sell. |
yeah i agree. i mean it obviously was successful hahaha :p. maybe the fact that it is very simple writing is part of that success? with the generic love story and all...i dunno.
i was thinking the other day...i wonder in a couple hundred years...who will history look back on as our contemporary great novelists? those that really stand the test of time? |
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| Psy-T |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
i was thinking the other day...i wonder in a couple hundred years...who will history look back on as our contemporary great novelists? those that really stand the test of time? |
the beats! :toocool: |
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| medinaM5 |
"Shogun" by James Clavelle
"Slackjaw" by Jim Knipfel
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
"Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis
"Children of the Matrix" by David Icke
few of my favs, i enjoy reading...nice time killer |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
Steven King's, Dark Tower series |
Steven king is my favorite Author. another really great two books by him are "The Regulators" and "Desperation". it was so awesome to see the same characters in two seperate ends of the country at the same time. man those two books were awesome.
| quote: | Originally posted by medinaM5
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
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Quite possibly one the best books i've ever read [and i did it in high school too]. The moral question of being forced to be good vs free will was absolutely amazing. funny thing is, the rest of Burgess's stuff isn't anything really like this one. definintely a great read!!! |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by medinaM5
"Shogun" by James Clavelle
"Slackjaw" by Jim Knipfel
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
"Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis
"Children of the Matrix" by David Icke
few of my favs, i enjoy reading...nice time killer |
you have good taste. i'll have to check out the ones on your list that i haven't read... but i love Ellis and Knipfel.
have you read 'Quitting the Nairobi Trio'? |
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| medinaM5 |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
you have good taste. i'll have to check out the ones on your list that i haven't read... but i love Ellis and Knipfel.
have you read 'Quitting the Nairobi Trio'? |
thats one Knipfel book I am yet to read ;) ...the man knows how to write a good book |
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| mezzir |
| if you like dan brown's style, i'd recommend anything by michael crichton |
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| Iyrlk |
i read most of the books by dan brown, and god damn it, they're all the same. same storytelling, same mood, same topic, same whatever. i mean i loved angels and demons cuz i read it first, but after da vinci code, it was good, but it got old. fast. i do agree that they're gripping and they're hard to put down, but still.. yeah.
u can :rolleyes: me but harry potter series is quite good (a fanatic actually.. i figured out who RAB is, know where the one of the horcrux is, and am hoping that i get to see harry die in the final book just cuz i simply detest the guy who plays harry in the movie, and theorize that harry and voldemort will share the same destiny), since ur into fantasy, philip pullman's golden trilogy is good (i like the subtle knife 2nd book the most), catch me if you can (there's a ok movie too) it's just really neat, half the AP English books are good reads, other half bore u to death, catch-22, steven king is a good writer, and.. thats about it for now.
boy am i sleepy. |
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| DJ RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
i was thinking the other day...i wonder in a couple hundred years...who will history look back on as our contemporary great novelists? those that really stand the test of time? |
Well, not Dan Brown... :p
But no one ever claimed he was a brilliant writer in an academic sense, like Myra said, he's just good at writing digestable books, which is more than I can say for a large majority of "best selling" authors... There's far worse out there than Dan Brown, and that frightens me... :nervous:
As far as contemporary literary minds that will stand the test of time, what do you consider contemporary? Is that defined as "in our lifetimes?" If so, I think guys like Ellis and Pahlanuk will be studied years down the line, a lot of their work is even being analzyed currently in a lot of Literature classes. Beyond those two names, I'm somewhat uncertain.
I think another "contemporary" (1960's-1970's) author that will be analyzed heavily in the future is Yukio MIshima. His stories, while both graphic and widely misinterpretted by the western world, are a source of great controversy in the literary world with regard to what each and every action of his characters "means." Though I think he may have also been insane, Mishima is a brilliant writer. |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by medinaM5
thats one Knipfel book I am yet to read ;) ...the man knows how to write a good book |
yeah he definitely brings a breath of fresh air to that genre... so many memoirs written by people coping with disease/addiction/etc really tend to get boring, stale, and predictable after a while. i mean you can only read so many books that follow the "look at me, i'm unique, here's my ed up past, this is what i dealt with, it was so hard, here's a unique crazy person who i befriended, this is how i overcame, omg i'm so happy now!" storyline. |
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| charon |
Stephen King - The Shining
Much better than the movie. Awesome book.
Stephen King - Eyes of the Dragon
More of a fantasy story than a thriller/horror book. Set in medieval times, has a lot of plot twists, deception, killings, etc.
Stephen King - It
ing crazy book. Its really really long and drawn out though. Not really comparable to Dan Brown books.
Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs are also great. |
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