Comments on: Why Book Lists Always Suck… http://couldntputitdown.com Because Life's Too Short to Read Bad Fiction Tue, 26 May 2009 05:47:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Dr Paradise http://couldntputitdown.com/booklists-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Dr Paradise Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:20:04 +0000 http://couldntputitdown.com/?page_id=131#comment-48 You are exactly right. Most of us know about the gray way to get noticed. Your perception is very good. Thank you. Dr Robert E McGinnis author of The Paradise Series You are exactly right. Most of us know about the gray way to get noticed. Your perception is very good. Thank you.

Dr Robert E McGinnis
author of The Paradise Series

]]> By: Anon http://couldntputitdown.com/booklists-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Anon Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:43:18 +0000 http://couldntputitdown.com/?page_id=131#comment-46 LoTR was an amazing series, you suck for not being able to appreciate the glory. Cast aside your distaste for fantasy, and immerse yourself in the pinnacle of fantasy writing, the series that has defines a genre. LoTR was an amazing series, you suck for not being able to appreciate the glory. Cast aside your distaste for fantasy, and immerse yourself in the pinnacle of fantasy writing, the series that has defines a genre.

]]> By: JD http://couldntputitdown.com/booklists-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-45 JD Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:47 +0000 http://couldntputitdown.com/?page_id=131#comment-45 Is...is this a joke? I can't really tell.... There are a lot of things to argue against in this post, but I'll pick my favorite: "To Kill a Mockingbird couldn’t be more boring" Really? I guess you're trying to say that people should examine their personal taste before blindly trusting book lists, but LEAVE HARPER LEE ALONE! LEAVE HER ALONE, I'M SERIOUS! /end fanboy sobbing Is…is this a joke? I can’t really tell…. There are a lot of things to argue against in this post, but I’ll pick my favorite:

“To Kill a Mockingbird couldn’t be more boring”

Really? I guess you’re trying to say that people should examine their personal taste before blindly trusting book lists, but LEAVE HARPER LEE ALONE! LEAVE HER ALONE, I’M SERIOUS! /end fanboy sobbing

]]> By: Aaron http://couldntputitdown.com/booklists-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Aaron Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:36:20 +0000 http://couldntputitdown.com/?page_id=131#comment-43 Umm, are you kidding about The Road by Cormac McCarthy? That book fits reason number two why book lists suck perfectly. Sure, McCarthy can put together a sentence, but not much more than that. He can't seem to organize the sentences into paragraphs or the paragraphs into chapters or the story into any amount of sense. A dad and his boy walk from coast to coast for no stated motive after the mother offs herself despite the father being competent on the basis that he isn't, and they proceed to walk along several hundred pages of the most pointlessly depressing copy ever written encountering only scum until mysterious and somewhat questionable plot device happens a few sentences after the father dies by which the only other non-cannibal human being in the book discovers the boy by force of the writer's intention. The book is one long excercise in Cormac's masturbatory writing, and doesn't resolve believably or commence/continue believably. It's plotted badly and written well, and it definitely does not deserve a Pulitzer. Umm, are you kidding about The Road by Cormac McCarthy? That book fits reason number two why book lists suck perfectly. Sure, McCarthy can put together a sentence, but not much more than that. He can’t seem to organize the sentences into paragraphs or the paragraphs into chapters or the story into any amount of sense. A dad and his boy walk from coast to coast for no stated motive after the mother offs herself despite the father being competent on the basis that he isn’t, and they proceed to walk along several hundred pages of the most pointlessly depressing copy ever written encountering only scum until mysterious and somewhat questionable plot device happens a few sentences after the father dies by which the only other non-cannibal human being in the book discovers the boy by force of the writer’s intention. The book is one long excercise in Cormac’s masturbatory writing, and doesn’t resolve believably or commence/continue believably. It’s plotted badly and written well, and it definitely does not deserve a Pulitzer.

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