yeh people who think they are clever are shit

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:09, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

cf Terry pratchett, Douglas Adams etc

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:10, Reply)

And Monty

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:15, Reply)

shut up thicko

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:16, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/thingskidssay/post1975680
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:16, Reply)

Iain Banks

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:19, Reply)

nah I'm monty

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:39, Reply)

Iain Banks is nowhere near as good a writer as he thinks he is.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:41, Reply)

he wrote the Crow road didn't he? that was shite

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:43, Reply)

Yes, yes he did.
He plots well, but his characters are desperately unlikeable and the writing itself is smug. It's all deeply shallow- good on the surface but it doesn't really stand up too well when you open the bonnet.

I've only read a few short stories from his SF stuff so can't really comment, but I've read loads of his mainstream stuff. I went through a period of liking him when I was 17, read several of his books and realised that he isn't actually that good.

Innit.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:47, Reply)

never read their stuff except good omens and i think only one of them wrote only half of that
it was alright mind, not my cup of tea tho
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 28 May 2013, 23:22, Reply)