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Most Over-Rated Author
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Most Over-Rated Author
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan Coleman Sep 18.
I'll see you at the inquest. Maybe.
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- About Me:
- Writer, recently finished my first novel, not yet published. In training for my Private Investigators license. I work as a researcher for a trademark attorney firm. Before that I worked in a call centre, musician, night shift reception in a hotel in London, teaching English in Bogota, Colombia, and various odd jobs in between.
Been in Melbourne a few years now, trying to publish first book - crime fiction set in and around the city.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- So obvious, but Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, just brilliant. Elmore Leonard is one of my all-time favourites, he has the best style. Also Carl Hiassen, and Ian Rankin.
Outside crime, Grahame Greene, Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Alex Garland, Thomas Pynchon, Fitzgerald, Rushdie, Henry Miller, Chuck Palahnuik... etc., etc.
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Get Carter (please don't mention the re-make), Sopranos, Chinatown, Maltese Falcon, Big Lebowski, Fritz the Cat, Life On Mars (haven't seen U.S version yet), Spooks...
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In another life, I'd be an electrician. Those guys make around $85/hour in these parts, with time off for Packers games, fishing, and turkey and deer seasons. That works out to roughly three times my salary, with no papers to grade on weekends.
I'm not going to say really bad things about any author. It's a tough racket to be in--so the ones who find a formula to succeed have to be applauded. But. . . . Dan Brown and James Patterson, two of the biggest success stories out there. It's not...
Actually, I think it would have been a lot easier to become an auto mechanic, and work as an auto mechanic, and the pay would have been a great deal better, than being an English professor. And that goes double for being the CEO of a company.
Quite right. But there's always one's self-respect. :)
J.K.Rowling is fine. You may have the rest. :)
I've just come across a book that is so abominably badly written as to make my hair stand on end. Still, it found a major publisher and an elegant hardcover edition. I checked the author's background...
I don't resent anyone of their success, because most writers, even ones I whose books I may not particularly enjoy, work really hard to write them.
Plus, I'd love to have people resent me because I outsell them. I'd hold special parties where peo...
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- At 6:43pm on October 14, 2009,
Anja Kraetzsch said… - Dear Nick, thanks for the info which I will add to my list of research material. I am doing African Studies and have mostly concentrated on African languages, since there were not many opportunities for studying African literature on my uni due to the smallness of my department. The economies and politics in Africa are instead those fields of interest that attract most students. I, however, am much more into cultural studies and literary analysis and got to know something about that while I was also doing English Studies until the beginning of this year. Of course, Conan Doyle has been with me since then and I have only started to show an interest in crime and mystery.
As I think that it is of great importance to not only examine the common, namely economical and political, developments on the African continent, but also to take a look at how people transfer theír reality into literary expression intermingled with literary creativity, I would like to do my research on the yet relatively unexamined subject of African mystery. .....
We'll see which results and revelations, if I can call them like that, I will hopefully be able to achieve. :-)
Have a nice day, and be greeted from the autumny golden-cold city of Leipzig.
- At 12:00am on July 30, 2009,
Libby Cudmore said…
- Hello Hello! My, you're quite a dish! Good luck on that novel!
- At 10:06am on December 17, 2008,
Karen from AustCrime said…
- Hi Nick - always happy to see somebody working on stories from around Melbourne :)
- At 4:02am on December 11, 2008,
Kandy Williams said… - Hi, Nick. Thanks for the invite. You gotta appreciate a guy who likes Graham Greene. Good luck with getting published!!
- At 9:16am on December 9, 2008,
Angela said… - Thanks for the request. Henry Miller, Rushdie, and Palahnuik are favorites of mine too!
- At 11:09am on December 5, 2008,
Carole Parker said… - Long story. I've written a dozen scripts in the last ten years. I'm just starting to get good ...
- At 1:45am on December 5, 2008,
Carole Parker said…
- It's available on DVD through Netflix, along with 4 others by Messr. Melville ...
- At 4:20pm on November 3, 2008,
- Hi Nick - I'm pleased to see a mention of Graham Greene - he's been one of my longtime favourite authors as well.
- At 10:54am on October 31, 2008,
Mitzi Szereto said… - Thanks very much! Hope you enjoy whatever you choose to read!
- At 12:19am on October 29, 2008,
Miss Mae said… - Thank you for adding me as your friend!
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