It's a workman/tools issue, I'd say.
A good writer can make anything interesting.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:29, 2 replies)

*Ahem*

( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:30, closed)

there int been any good writers here for years

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:32, closed)

Bollocks.
I'm fucking marvellous.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:40, closed)

I have my own column

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:14, closed)

Yeah I've got a column right here.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:18, closed)

Hahaha
as I said to Iain Banks over lunch* the other day, it's just me and you left, bro.

*several pints
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:21, closed)

The author, or the terminally boring dullard?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:28, closed)

The author
it was an editorial meeting for a new sci-fi magazineexcuse to spend the afternoon in the pub
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:31, closed)

Oo get you Mr I Hang Out With The Literary Crowd!
Did you eschew the delights of elucidating the vernacular?

I've only read one of his books - A Song Of Stone, as my (sirrius) writing was compared with it. I quite enjoyed it.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:34, closed)

You should read his others
because Song of Stone isn't his best by a loooong way
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:37, closed)

Non-sci-fi: Wasp Factory
Sci-fi: Use of Weapons

IMHO
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 14:51, closed)

I don't think I've read that one, I must search it out
Mainly we swapped stories of making explosives as teenagers :)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:40, closed)

I shouldn't bother, if I were you.
I really isn't very good.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 13:52, closed)

I hate to agree
But I also found song of stone to be a pretty low point in his writing.
As ever it's nicely structured and to some extent it tells a story. Unfortunately the story it tells is unremittingly grim, and really just doesn't go anywhere.
In precis.
"The world is a violent and horrible place in which everyone who you might have any sympathy with will be die in a degrading and futile manner."
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 14:46, closed)

Probably why I liked it.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 15:36, closed)

The incest
makes it edgy.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 15:40, closed)