May 2012
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If you forget the periods in E.L. James, it looks like the name of a Mexican wrestler.
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Anonymous asked: I agree with most of your critiques, but sentence fragments are okay in prose, if they're used for impact, like that one was.
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submission from wati6-20:
The paragraph you kind of like. Question: How can an “area” be a “seated area of white chairs.” Where are these chairs seated? On other chairs?
I don’t know, wati6-20. Perhaps we should conduct some experiments with chairs and see if we can get them to become seated.
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Anonymous asked: Orson Scott Card's Hamlet is basically a big ball of gay hate. You've been warned. I was really excited about reading it and it just let me down. :(
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My father made an interesting point about #0003 this evening: Kate is sending Anastasia to do her interview for her, which is not something a good journalist would do. During an interview, you don’t just read a list of questions off a piece of paper. You ask follow-up questions and go after topics that look interesting. Unless Kate and Anastasia are working together closely on the piece with...
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specialagentartemis asked: Not really relevant to 50 Shades of Grey, but I've heard that Orson Scott Card's version of Hamlet was... really not very good. Full of homophobia and bad characterization and other unpleasant things. I've never read it, so I know I don't have the right to be advising anyone about it, but I've heard that it's just not good.
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Anonymous asked: I could be wrong and presumptuous and Mx. Noodles can correct me if this proves incorrect, but I get the feeling s/he's mocking you with these asks. Which confuses me, were it the case.
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wet-noodles asked: Of course I'm not pissy! For one, it's only a novel, and I feel like jumping to its defense at the smallest perceived slight would be a massive waste of energy at best. I am also heartened to see that the criticism isn't constrained to lazy, sweeping declarations like "flat and unpublishable drivel" and "an insipid, lifeless, offensive, steaming dump on the source...
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Anonymous asked: Yeah, but for that reason, they're not comparable. At the moment, EL James's prose is not of a publishable standard. She's repetitive and droll, and instead of creating dynamic descriptions, she just lists off half a dozen adjectives for one thing and expects readers to get a good sense what it looks like.
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Anonymous asked: QUALITY OF THE PROSE? Sorry. But OSC and E.L James are not in the same league when it comes to prose quality. They're completely incomparable.
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wet-noodles asked: Honestly all I can say is that I like 5SoG and OSC's Hamlet for almost identical reasons, namely the handling of sexuality and the quality of the prose.
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inheritedsystem-deactivated2012 asked: What's so confusing about people having different opinions on what is classified as "good literature"? Mostly directed towards your last asker.
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wet-noodles asked: I'm so conflicted about this blog - on one hand, you turn to Orson Scott Card, honestly one of my favorite authors from the last century (have you read his adaptation of Hamlet? The man knows what he's doing) as an authority on what constitutes good and bad writing. On the other hand, you're hating on 50 Shades of Grey, which is incidentally one of my favorite series from the last...
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kirbyscotton asked: You quoted OSCard. I have to follow you! :-D
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“[T]he Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay...”
– E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey flap copy
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And so it begins.
I’ve downloaded all three volumes of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy. This is going to be painful. And probably pretty funny.
