One of the suggestions for my Birthday Blog Bash (I asked for TT theme suggestions) was to list 13 books I wished I’d written, or 13 I was glad I hadn’t. Last week I listed the ones I wish I’d written. This week I’ll do 13 I’m glad aren’t mine…
Thursday Thirteen: 13 Books I’m Glad I Didn’t Write
1. The Clan of the Cave Bear series. I know they’re popular, but I can’t stand them.
2. The Lord of the Rings. Love the story. But I can’t imagine writing in Tolkien’s style.
3. Bored of the Rings. Not my type of parody.
4. Great Expectations. Probably the only class book I didn’t finish reading… my class tag team read this one.
5. Moby Dick. I don’t care that it’s a classic.
6. Some of the later Pern books. Pretty much anything in the timeline after “All the Weyrs” I am lukewarm about, at best.
7. The Golden Key. Great premise, but I didn’t like the execution.
8. The Elements of Style. I just don’t want to obsess that much over grammar, thanks.
9. The Series of Unfortunate Events. I haven’t read the whole lot of them, but from what I’ve seen, the author talks down to kids. Not cool.
10. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I sooo dislike what I read of this writing style.
11. The Dragonlance series. I liked the way it started, but not the way it turned out. Nor do I like the way that other authors have gone with it, and that’s always a chance you take when you start an open world like that.
12. The Anita Blake, vampire hunter, series, past a certain point. Just… ick.
13. The Harry Potter series. Not my writing style, nor I can’t imagine trying to follow that series up with anything… Talk about pressure!
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Happy Thursday!
