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Why does /lit/ hate Isabel Allende so much? Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Fri Jul 15 15:56:57 2011 No.1929307 [Reply] [Original]

- Very good writing style, comparable to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Panoz Karnesis

- Weaves fiction and non-fiction together, i.e. writes historical novels

- Books aren't too short or too long, 300 - 500 pages

- Magical realism

Seriously, she's a pretty good author. Some of her books are average, yes, but she's written a few good and great books as well, and has never written a bad book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 15:57:57 2011 No.1929309 Generic Sunhawk thread #672. How amazing.

Anonymous Fri Jul 15 15:58:57 2011 No.1929311

- Very bad writing style, comparable only in a negative sense to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Panoz Karnesis

- Some bullshit that has nothing to do with being good or bad

- Easy to consume for Oprah lovers

- A shallow and toothless imitation of better writers

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 15:59:57 2011 No.1929315 Sunhawk, she's a woman who their 12th grade World Lit teachers probably taught badly. It's not that hard.

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Fri Jul 15 16:01:57 2011 No.1929322 >>1929311 >Easy to consume for Oprah lovers I admit, her books are easy going, and some are VERY easy going. However, the only one that felt trashy or pulpy (like generic chick lit) was Of Love And Shadows (which I read this week).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 16:01:57 2011 No.1929324 >>1929315 >teaching her in school jesus cristo que horror

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 16:06:57 2011 No.1929336 Because /lit/ has higher standards than you.

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Fri Jul 15 16:10:57 2011 No.1929350 >>1929336 /lit/ thinks trash fantasy is good. Try again. I'm fine with mid-brow and high-brow fantasy, though, e.g. Dark Tower, ASOIAF.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 16:10:57 2011 No.1929351 She's a bland and unimportant (but somehow pop-ular) writer. Think of her as the female equivalent of Stephen King.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 16:11:57 2011 No.1929355 >>1929350 Which one of those is the high-brow one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 16:14:57 2011 No.1929365 I have only read "Zorro", and it was pretty awful. An entertaining trashy read maybe, but not to be compared with marquez.

Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Fri Jul 15 16:18:57 2011 No.1929376

>>1929351

This board really likes Stephen King. I'm getting back into him, myself, he's pretty good. The Stand, The Wastelands, Under The Dome, Needful Things, etc.

She might be slightly trashy like King, but they have nothing else in common, apart from being fairly (her) / very (him) character driven.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 15 16:35:57 2011 No.1929406 >>1929376 I wasn't talking about writing style at all, I was talking about 'likeability'. The same kind of people who find her books good, would also consider King as deep and important. Readability&fun doesn't automatically imply literary merit.

>>	sandwiches Fri Jul 15 17:28:57 2011 No.1929526 Allende fucking sucks. Sunhawk, you have awful, awful taste, I'm sorry.

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