I like Sci-Fi // Fantasy mostly, and I go by sales which says my genre is better than yours.

Sup Freddy?

I feel bad for anyone who can't appreciate The Dark Tower series; King is a master story teller, in everything from the creation of his universes, to character development and plot directive.

Terry Goodkind (The Sword of Truth) may not be as skilled a writer, but the guy has an undeniable talent for drawing the reader into a story.

Not everything is meant to be a Dumas or a Dickens novel, and I'm very glad for it.

Fuck you all, I'm reading Borges Labyrinths.

There's more narrative, depth and intelligence in his short story, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius than there is in the thousand+ pages of Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

somebody is sitting on a bit of a highorse

Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf are greatly overrated.

Jane Austen can be kind of dry (still worth reading, though), but if you don't like Virginia Woolf, my guess is that you don't get what she's doing. Try reading "The Waves." She manages to write that one so that each chapter reads like a tide coming in and going back out. It's brilliant.

Truth is, I think I'm afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Eh--just read it in your own room. ^^

It was a joke on "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Edit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061184/

This post was edited by montecito on Dec 11 2010 11:49am