I Dont Get It

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I have a theory about popular writers.

When a writer has 5 best sellers hanging from his belt he senses its time to jump the shark. It happens all the time.

I collided with one yesterday. Book #4 was a dream of broken glass thrills and violence worth 5 starz and more, then Book #5 is a lame lesbian love story of an opera diva and an art historian who hold hands and coo and sigh and drink gallons of Celestial Tea before shit happens. No nasty sex or shit, and both are beautiful. Ha! Who ever met a faggette who didn't look like Karl Rove! or Al Sharpton!

 

[DesEsseintes]

Writers are creative people who get bored with the same furrow. I read an interview with Bill Bryson today in which he said that after the success of 'A Walk Through The Woods', about the Appalachian Trail, his publishers were clamouring for him to do the Pacific Trail and then endless other walks, and were offering him a fortune because, in his words, 'they can sell the same book over and over'. Instead he went on to write books about Shakespeare, Science, the English language, etc, etc. Much more interesting, in my view. But, of course, often the swerve doesn't work out and it retrospectively looks like 'jumping the shark'.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Writers are creative people who get bored with the same furrow. I read an interview with Bill Bryson today in which he said that after the success of 'A Walk Through The Woods', about the Appalachian Trail, his publishers were clamouring for him to do the Pacific Trail and then endless other walks, and were offering him a fortune because, in his words, 'they can sell the same book over and over'. Instead he went on to write books about Shakespeare, Science, the English language, etc, etc. Much more interesting, in my view. But, of course, often the swerve doesn't work out and it retrospectively looks like 'jumping the shark'.

I call it SCHIZOPHRENIC WORD SALAD when they stray from the straight and narrow path to salvation.