tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post754497254605335874..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: The thirty harshet author insultsEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-63524296486688778382011-06-22T18:33:15.208-07:002011-06-22T18:33:15.208-07:00This is what Mark Twain said of James Fenimore Coo...This is what Mark Twain said of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Deerslayer":<br /><br />"It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are -- oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language."<br /><br /><br />Man, could Twain write.<br /><br />By the by, here's the link:<br /><br />http://flavorwire.com/188138/the-30-harshest-author-on-author-insults-in-historyBrendan DuBoishttp://www.BrendanDuBois.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-71120212074008843442011-06-21T18:14:49.006-07:002011-06-21T18:14:49.006-07:00ALL geezers have sexual fantasys about twelve-year...ALL geezers have sexual fantasys about twelve-year-old girls its just that our society is in denial about that in this "THE TIME OF SEXUAL REPRESSION" that we were all unfortunate enough to be born into.eddie lydeckernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-84969321669789422612011-06-20T20:22:13.397-07:002011-06-20T20:22:13.397-07:00BTW, Ed, I can't see any link.BTW, Ed, I can't see any link.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-25714410824063681202011-06-20T14:50:40.406-07:002011-06-20T14:50:40.406-07:00Yeah by the end he was so loaded and drugged he wa...Yeah by the end he was so loaded and drugged he was repeating himself. I don't think he was ever a great writer but he was a very good one for many years but he was a sad wasted guy by the end.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-67818636205274158502011-06-20T13:24:37.673-07:002011-06-20T13:24:37.673-07:00I heard Capote said the same about Jackie Suzanne....I heard Capote said the same about Jackie Suzanne.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.com