Over rated writers

[Boss]

Can we add Hunter S Thompson as he just seemed like such a bad bell, and people who trip on about him often tend to be such bad bells?

 

So Johnny Depp then?

[Dr Nowt]

So Johnny Depp then?

 

Fired his ashes out of a cannon for him, didn't he? 

 

I must confess, I know little of the guy, other than a few tiny snatches of his writing, a couple of interviews where he seemed a tit, and then lots and lots of things other people have said or written about his lifestyle, consumption, etc, which have made me cringe. 

[rubble-rouser]

I read Fear & Loathingin  Las Vegas, which I did not enjoy. It may well have been revolutionary at the time though. 

 

What gets me is how, for years, Sunday Times-type journos went on about his writing as though it was visionary, Like any of them have even been in the depths of an Ether Binge. 

 

Depp has always seemed like a decent sort to me.  

[Dr Nowt]

Read a few chapters of Fear and Loathing in a mate's bog while doing a very shy poo, and liked it.  Never went back to it as I'm forever picking up books and have stacks on the go, half-read, usually.

 

Did only manage to sit through about 15 minutes of the film adaptation.  I like Depp in things like Donnie Brasco, but he was absolutely unwatchable in that. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

I'm down, is what it is. So all the kids on the street tell me, anyway. Man.

 

They may say that to your face but are they still poking dog shit through your letter box and running away ?

[General Dryness]

Roald Dahl. 

 

Been reading them all to my daughter - and they are just shite. The only ones that are even barely readable, like Matilda, were completely rewritten by an editor appointed by his publishers so they could actually understand it.

 

Oh, and also, he was a complete twat in real life as well.

 

Pains me to say it, but David Walliams books are actually far better written, which is not a sentence I ever thought I would write.

 

 

Mate, I know it's all about opinions, but that is as stone cold a neg as I think I've seen.

 

Seconded that neg. Fucking hell.

 

My missus bought Walliams "Slightly Annoying Elephant" for our boy. Its fucking shit.

[General Dryness]

They may say that to your face but are they still poking dog shit through your letter box and running away ?

 

"Shit smell sneaky, right?"

[rubble-rouser]

Seconded that neg. Fucking hell.

 

My missus bought Walliams "Slightly Annoying Elephant" for our boy. Its fucking shit.

 

My elder daughter will read anything. When she was 5 or 6, the more puerile the better, but she turns her nose up at Walliams.

 

Never thought I'd say it, but I really enjoyed the Harry Potter books (well, books 3-6) when I was reading them to the eldest - wanted to hate them,. Most of the films aren't all that, and the stories are very derivative (Tolkien, Empire Strikes Back, Bible etc) but actually really well written. 

[Hand Shandy]

Utterly random neg from Code for saying Tolkien waffles.

 

He's either a closet fan or a weird motherfucker. Whichever could it be?

[General Dryness]

Utterly random neg from Code for saying Tolkien waffles.

 

He's either a closet fan or a weird motherfucker. Whichever could it be?

 

He could have all of the rings and there still wouldn't be enough for all of his forum logins to have one.