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Jul 14, 2010 12:07

Oh man, I did this "see what famous writer you write like" thing, using a few of my fics, and the first one it gave me was Douglas Adams (!), the second was Vladimir Nabokov (!!), and the third was... Dan Brown. DEPRESSING. Dan Brown, goddamn ( Read more... )

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mustangcandi July 14 2010, 19:49:54 UTC

I obviously have a DYNAMIC writing style.

I buy that. :)

And you know, Dan Brown isn't always bad. Angels & Demons was a pretty great book. The rest weren't so good (read: were crap) but that's one of my favorite books. LOL.

sororcula July 14 2010, 20:02:48 UTC

Haha, well, I will confess that I haven't actually read any Dan Brown books, but I've been pretty well convinced by Geoff Pullum to avoid them.

mustangcandi July 14 2010, 20:17:11 UTC

Well, I would definitely agree with him on his points about The Da Vinci Code and even MORE SO on his last one The Lost Symbol. OMG. I haven't even read half of that one because my beta instincts told me I needed a huge red marker to correct all of his errors. Honestly - I can't believe it made it to publication. Don't they have editors and reviewers for a reason? *shudders*

Angels and Demons was such a fast-paced, eloquently designed story... I didn't have time to pay attention to any stylistic errors. LOL. I really enjoyed that book. A lot of Catholics thought it was degrading to the religion but I actually thought it was quite the opposite. But then again, I'm an eternal optimist and I choose to see the brighter side of things. I'd be curious to get your reaction to it, being Catholic and all. After all, what does a Baptist know about it? haha.

sororcula July 14 2010, 20:33:31 UTC

OH, haha, that's the one where the movie was vaguely tempting because it had Ewan MacGregor playing a priest. RIGHT. Hahaha. Ahem.

I don't think of myself as being particularly, umm, militant/vigilant as far as getting offended over pop-cultural treatment of Catholicism goes, but I think that I might underestimate myself on that, because I've had issues with Supernatural on that front!

Haha, now I'm sitting here thinking about this particular SPN episode and just... aagghh... so bad. (I'm thinking of episode 4x10; have you seen it? I can't remember how much of SPN you've watched.) OFF TOPIC, sorry.

Point is, my thing with Catholicism is sort of like with family, where it's okay for you to criticize but you get defensive if someone else does? And it's irrational and ridiculous and on an intellectual level I fully recognize that religion and religious pursuits ABSOLUTELY should be critiqued and criticized and questioned, but I still cringe sometimes at non-Catholics' comments, in a "they just don't understand" kind of way ( ... )

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