Writers who touch you but are really not v. good.

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a lsit.

― anthony, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Terry Pratchett. I should be ashamed I know, but I'm not. The hard yards with more difficult authors have been put in, and I deserve the chance to let some homespun philosophy wash over me in a soothing and occasionally amusing manner. The literary equivalent of the Shipping Forecast, with gags....

― Matt, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll nominate Salinger (bet a few others had him in mind). He isn't bad or mediocre, just more derivative than usually recognized.

― kieran, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sven hassel, william burroughs.

― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but i told them to stop doing it.

― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"evil cuddling"

― rainy, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I'll stick up for Salinger any day of the week. "Esme" is an absolutely perfect story, and no one else could have written it.

I guess I'd nominate Bukowski.

― Justyn Dillingham, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think they're all great! Except for Umberto Eco because I don't know most of the words he (i.e. his pretentious translators) use because they're not real English, they are Anglicised Latin and I know bugger all Latin (except etc. i.e. n.b. etc. ha ha!)

― toraneko, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and Enid Blyton, I love her stuff but apparently she's not v. good according to others.

― toraneko, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Hornby, cept for that soccer one.

― geoff s., Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stephen King, without a doubt. The man can craft some hair-raising scenes, but he has severe problems ending his stories. In fact, I think only _The Stand_ and _Needful Things_ actually had endings; the others tend to either meander along way past their sensible ending points or just do away with the ending altogether and stop.

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't help thinking all the writers who touch me are good! There did seem to be anti-Neil Gaiman sentiment at ILE though, so that's the closest I've got.

― Maria, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heart Douglas Coupland books but they're not really that good anymore, I'll still read 'em all though.

― chris, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

V. C. Andrews

(Just kidding)

(Or am I???)

― rosemary, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i just started rereading knight of swords by michael moorcock: oh dear me!! though his kind of dali-esque monster-awful scenes are very vivid

― mark s, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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