Oh no he didn't.

[trenchkamen]

Nicholas Sparks is a pretentious douche.

I can't believe how bafflingly arrogant this guy is about his mediocre books. Putting yourself in the company of Shakespeare, Jane Austin, and Hemingway?

"I'm going to interrupt you there. There's a difference between drama and melodrama; evoking genuine emotion, or manipulating emotion. It's a very fine eye-of-the-needle to thread. And it's very rare that it works. That's why I tend to dominate this particular genre. There is this fine line. And I do not verge into melodrama. It's all drama. I try to generate authentic emotional power."

Jesus Christ STFU. Like we don't already have ample evidence of the fact that a bestseller does not a good (or even decent) novel make.

I also like how fucking insecure he is about being called a "romance" author, and that the writer of the article keeps mentioning that he likes to "watch football", etc.

Just read the interview. There isn't much else I can add to it.

Comments

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

Well, that makes ME glad not to have read any of his books.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

Unless you count leafing through his books in the bookstore "reading". Was not impressed. My sister is obsessed with the movie adaptations of his books, so I was curious.

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

Well, now I don't only dislike his trite, sentimentalist crap novels, but I also dislike his pretentious self.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Amen.

Except he'd have a stroke if you called his works "sentimentalist". THEY'RE LITERATURE. ROMANCE IS FOR VAGINAS.

[fabula-umbrae.livejournal.com]

Wow... It's impressive. I don't generally see someone with their head that far up their own ass.

His novels looked boring in the store. I am somehow unsurprised.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

The movies based on his novels are also crap.

[fabula-umbrae.livejournal.com]

Well, that would be expected. Since another bit of media based off bad writing is likely to continue to have said bad writing.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

I watched part of "The Notebook" with Rachel and my reaction the entire time was basically ‾\0_o/‾

[fabula-umbrae.livejournal.com]

Is that your shoulders up past your ears or your hands going "meh"?

[phisinfinity.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. He's an alumni of Bella Vista HS, a rival high school in my hometown area. They're generally characterized as being a stupidly arrogant school. Apparently they even came up with a chant/prayer/something to say before standardized tests so they could try to topple my high school's API score.

HATERS GONNA HATE.

But yeah. Lol Nicholas Sparks. Looollllll

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

David Spade is an alumni of Saguaro High School, my alma matter.

Yes, I really went to a school called "Saguaro".

And Stephanie Meyer is from Fountain Hills, a suburb just north of Scottsdale. A fucking local celebrity. Alice Cooper kicks the shit out of her sparkly vampires, and he lives close to my parents.

School rivalries are stupid. I hated it in high school. I hate it in university. I DON'T FUCKING CARE THAT WE'RE PLAYING U OF A THIS WEEK I DON'T CARE IF THEY PAINT THE "A" BLUE I JUST COLLABORATE WITH THEM SHIT.

[alexielnet.livejournal.com]

Ha! Is his ego viewable from space?

Also, I was betting that the link would lead to "The DaVinci Code". Well played, well played.

[trenchkamen.livejournal.com]

Another fine bit of literature.

Admittedly probably way more enjoyable than The Notebook or whatever.

[zoe-sama.livejournal.com]

"My own opinion is: dark — easy to write. Easy!" he says. "I find no challenge in it."

Then you are not writing, sir. At least not "literature".

I prefer "Easy reading is damn hard writing." --Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'm glad you posted this. I needed some humor. :P

[lunaria42.livejournal.com]

What he writes, from my observation of the crappy ass movie adaptions of his works, would definitely not be published under the "Romance" label. However, it's not much better than romance either, and damn sure not literature.

I hate when popular authors think they are freaking gods because the masses like their books. When they are still teaching your book five hundred years from now in schools around the world, then you can quite possibly be considered among the literary gods.

Sorry, caffeine deprived and going on tangents is not a good combo.

[hiraku536.livejournal.com]

Wow... his favorite novel is his own book.

Also, hang on:
"No, it's the difference between Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet," he says. "(Romances) are all essentially the same story: You've got a woman, she's down on her luck, she meets the handsome stranger who falls desperately in love with her, but he's got these quirks, she must change him, and they have their conflicts, and then they end up happily ever after."

Didn't Stephanie Meyer also put herself in the company of Shakespeare and Emily Bronte???

I've put so much hate in Meyers' work, it's going to be so exhausting for me to hate someone new again. :(