Audiobook finished

[johnridley]

Bearing An Hourglass by Piers Anthony

About 30 pages of story stretched into 400. Seriously, I guess he had already sold it so he needed to write it, and since (as he points out in his smarmy author's notes at the end) he's "immune to writer's block", he just puked out some garbage about a fantasy dream world in the middle of the story to flesh it out.

What other author would get away with putting 20 pages of self-aggrandizing author's notes in the book? And as to "immune to writer's block" - that's probably easier for him since he's already got a guaranteed sale, he just needs to generate a certain number of words.

Anyway, people have said this is probably the worst of the bunch, so I'll plow onward.

Comments

[renniekins.livejournal.com]

Do you buy audio books, or use a free source?

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Library for stuff like this. Librivox for stuff like Moby Dick, etc.

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

Not just the worst of the bunch, but probably one of the worst books I've ever finished reading. Come to think of it, most of the books on my "worst book" list were written by him. Why did I do that to myself? Sheesh.