Cecelia Ahern Rant

nc6000 wrote: »

If people weren't buying her books they wouldn't be published.

People buy any old crap when a ton of money is put behind its marketing.

Rabo Karabekian wrote: »

How is the writing style of the TV series tie-in normally?

(I'm sure she's watched an episode or two of the very popular Doctor Who, if not before she was commissioned to write a cheap tie-in, but definitely after. Also, grammar and punctuation are editorial issues, which I would assume is the fault of whichever publishing house is doing the Doctor Who books).

Well, there are various writing styles for the series cos a lot of writers have been commissioned to write DW, but none have tried to achieve the poetic 19th century prose that CA attempted. She got so lost in her sentences that she describes stuff but forgets to actually include the noun to give us a hint what exactly she's talking about.

The subject came up over the weekend as my missus and my mother both said they loved the PS I love You movie, but then tried to read the book and couldn't get past page 10 or 11.

We all had a read of the first few pages of the DW sample on Kindle and at least my horror was shared when they couldn't figure out why there were commas thrown in to make sentences read like a Dickens' opening paragraph, a weird lack of them that made sentences stumble into each other, and as I said, a lack of nouns to explain what exactly she was describing a couple of times.

I was also glad it wasn't just me who felt annoyed that she probably thinks of herself as a good writer because her money and influence got her so many book sales.

What I didn't know, but was reliably informed of by the political correspondent in our family, was that the US readers thought they were getting an inside scoop on the break up of her parents' marriage when they read the title - the scandal of which went towards a lot of sales before they realised it was nothing of the kind. At which point the tidal wave of sales propelled the book into the public awareness.

Rabo Karabekian wrote: »

I had a whole response done, until I realised my sarcasm detector is probably not working today.

I like it, though. Ahern with aspirations to Dickens-esque prose! A fan of Doctor Who novels (y'know, dodgy novels written to tie-in to a fairly cheesy TV series) complaining about Ahern's writing style! And then a 'political correspondent' friend telling you that he knows what was going on in the minds of all the people in America who bought Ahern's book (because Bertie's marriage is a known driver of book sales in America). Y'know, despite the book being categorised as fiction.

It is normal to end sarcastic posts with something like or (for future reference).

Ha ha

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

All because of dodgy syntax? Your mother & your wife must be of a very nervous disposition.

lol - it was also my wife and mother who were astonished at her lack of ability to string coherent sentences together. Before responding - go read some of her sh!te - the proof is in the pudding :eek: