3 Stupid White Books

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Author Message   Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 852 Registered: 03-2004 Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) Posted on Saturday, November 27, 2004 - 10:39 am:        Folks are always on here having hissy fits about Black authors writing mediocre books only for the money like white authors did not pioneer the practice (or like publishing companies don't encourage it)so that I just had to weigh in on three stupid books by white authors that will make you wonder why the are written. The first is by that poor man's Truman Capote, the vastly overated Tom Wolfe, titled "I am Charlotte Simmons". What does this 74 year old goat, who is still running off a dubious reputation made in the 60's (and the fact that he can hang around in New York City and still be straight and white)know about college students? Naw, it ain't a black thang, I am betting even white folks will give this the air, too. The second is a sin against nature, "The Godfather Returns" by Mark Winegardner. I remember they had a contest to pick the author of this sequal to Mario Puzo's gloriously trashy orignal novel "The Godfather", and I remember having a vague feeling that this would be a bomb when they did not pick an Italian and somebody who wasn't even born when the events of the book happened (Puzo was alive and a returning vet in 1946 and thereafter when most of the book took place--and, though he stated that he only knew what he read and heard about the Mafia, he had grown up with and knew these guys, or the background from which they had sprung. This book, as some critics are saying, "should sleep with the fishes". It pains me to include the last on the list. Stephen King has written some good stuff (his wicked loveletter to his fans, "Misery" is my favorite) but "The DArk Tower Part VII"? Did there need to be VII parts? I know Steverino don't need the money--and if he do, more power to him, because his heart seems in the right place in non fiction and speeches that he has written, but he wouldn't git none of mine. And does ANY book have to be 800 plus pages long, unless you are a drone who doesn't have a life and likes to live in an utter fantasty world-- Buy this one and walk around with it if you want cool guys to run up and give you wedgies.