Worst published prose you've ever encountered

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jimmy olsen

#15
November 01, 2011, 08:29:57 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 01, 2011, 07:19:59 PM
Malthus is the one who revealed it. :mellow:
I don't think Malthus has ever revealed that his aunt is the worst prose writer that he's ever read.  :huh:
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#16
November 01, 2011, 09:02:47 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 01, 2011, 08:29:57 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 01, 2011, 07:19:59 PM
Malthus is the one who revealed it. :mellow:
I don't think Malthus has ever revealed that his aunt is the worst prose writer that he's ever read.  :huh:

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#17
November 01, 2011, 09:10:32 PM
I've never read any of her stuff.  Princesca described The Handmaid's Tale to me once and I said "Feminazi bullshit.  No thanks."  She tried to explain it wasn't just that, but once my mind is made up,  IT IS MADE UP GODDAMN IT. :)
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Eddie Teach

#18
November 01, 2011, 09:11:49 PM
I think I saw the movie of that once. Don't remember a lick of it.
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#19
November 01, 2011, 09:15:20 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 31, 2011, 06:07:37 PM
Anything by a Bronte.
I love the Brontes.  I'm a Wuthering Heights boy :sadblush:

Twilight saga.  I couldn't get beyond 10 pages because I'm not a teenage girl.  I say that as a gayman fan of the films.
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Capetan Mihali

#21
November 02, 2011, 01:33:24 AM
Why would I read garbage?  Though I do have a few favorite authors that write "badly" but oh so well, e.g. David Goodis and assorted pulp B-listers...
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Gups

#22
November 02, 2011, 05:28:12 AM
I like Margaret Atwood. There's nothing at all wrong with her prose style.

grumbler

#23
November 02, 2011, 06:47:18 AM
Quote from: Gups on November 02, 2011, 05:28:12 AM
I like Margaret Atwood. There's nothing at all wrong with her prose style.
My comment may not have been meant entirely seriously.  :cool:
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#24
November 02, 2011, 08:40:33 AM
Heh, my aunt is not in fact my favourite writer - the themes that interest her are not those that interest me, reading her is often uncomfortably like overhearing my parents gossip - but, trolling aside, there is no doubt she's a very good writer indeed.

It is just odd that she mines so much of her fiction from family history, so I see echoes of it when I read some of her stuff. 
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#25
November 02, 2011, 08:54:53 AM
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#26
November 02, 2011, 08:55:41 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on November 02, 2011, 01:33:24 AM
Why would I read garbage?  Though I do have a few favorite authors that write "badly" but oh so well, e.g. David Goodis and assorted pulp B-listers...

You can end up reading garbage when you didn't intend to. :huh:
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Gups

#27
November 02, 2011, 09:01:55 AM
Quote from: Malthus on November 02, 2011, 08:40:33 AM

It is just odd that she mines so much of her fiction from family history, so I see echoes of it when I read some of her stuff.

Doesn't seem that odd given that she had quite an unusual upbringing and spent a lot of her time with just her family in isolated locations. At least that's the impression I got from her Desert Island Discs slot.

My nomination for worst prose is Enid Blyton. Such a hack.

I read the first few hundred pages of a book called Shantaram a while ago. Sample sentence

"The hole in my life that a father should've filled was a prairie of longing. In the loneliest hours of those hunted years, I wandered there, as hungry for a father's love as a cellblock full of sentenced men in the last hour of New Year's Eve"

Eddie Teach

#28
November 02, 2011, 09:04:10 AM
Somebody mentioned that line here before. It is indeed quite awful.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Gups

#29
November 02, 2011, 09:07:46 AM
Probably me. I fucking hate that book, especially as loads of people seem to love it.
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