What the heck ... ?

[daibhidc]

For a long time now, I've been a listener to The Write Stuff, "Radio 4's panel game of literary correctness". And the Author of the Week is usually someone I haven't read (but almost always someone I've heard of). Which is fair enough, there's lots of authors I haven't read, and I appreciate that they're supposed to be going for Proper Literature. But nonetheless I live in hope that one day the Author of the Week will be Terry Pratchett.

Don't get me wrong, they do have genre authors sometimes, but they're the sort of genre authors a lit-snob wouldn't be totally embarrassed to be seen reading on the train. I was hoping that Pterry becoming Sir Pterry might help elevate him into these ranks, but a glance at next week's Radio Times suggests I may have misunderstood the whole thing.

Next week's author is Stephanie Meyer.

Stephenie. Freakin'. Meyer. She rates and Pterry doesn't?

Comments

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Bah! Humbug! Fix bayonets!

I've never read a word of Stephenie "Note Spelling" Meyer's work and don't plan to unless I'm humongously bored and have run out of cornflake packets, so I suppose it's unfair of me to venture an opinion on their literary merit, but if they're fit to be on the same shelf as Pterry's least good book, then I'm a Puzuma's auntie!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I appear to have a great deal of boggling to do...

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

A more generous thought that occurs to me: since part of the Author of the Week's role is to provide grift for the ending pastiches, it may be that, like me, they find Pterry's style difficult to parody.

Whereas from what I've seen on the interwebs, the Twilight series appears to be very easy to parody...

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Whereas from what I've seen on the interwebs, the Twilight series appears to be very easy to parody...

For some reason, the words "fish" and "barrel" spring to mind...