tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post114098618031522782..comments2024-03-27T07:25:07.401+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Jeffrey Archer gets beaten upMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-35723986566154748482023-01-21T15:36:54.156+00:002023-01-21T15:36:54.156+00:00IQ isn't a relevant indicator of what a person...IQ isn't a relevant indicator of what a person may or may not read. Mine is 97 and I read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Beckett's novels, H.P. Lovecraft, Beat novelists, pulp sci-fi, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, Chomsky... it means nothing at all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-24562133747833264192022-04-30T22:57:17.351+01:002022-04-30T22:57:17.351+01:00replica wholesale handbags high quality replica h...<a href="https://geteshist63509.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-april-2016-cnn-reported-that.html" rel="nofollow">replica wholesale handbags</a> <a href="https://toasear13137.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-addition-business-invests-billions.html" rel="nofollow">high quality replica handbags</a> <a href="https://voothoa24944.blogspot.com/2022/04/75-pounds-features-womens-naturalizer.html" rel="nofollow">high quality designer replica</a>mctetheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04813111031243639742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-80293346582835481022021-08-06T13:00:44.765+01:002021-08-06T13:00:44.765+01:00lebron 18
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Compare Archer's writing to these is to contemplate an enormous gulf in talent insight and ambition.Jeffery Archer is a below average Edgar Wallace- who at least inspired a superb biography by Margaret Lane!ian darlinghttp://iandarling@hotmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-67706643640141217522008-09-06T03:28:00.000+01:002008-09-06T03:28:00.000+01:00Most of you sound pretty satisifed with yourselves...Most of you sound pretty satisifed with yourselves. I have never read this author but it seems to me there is a great deal of sour grapes going on. Whoops, how banal of me---a cliche.<BR/><BR/>What law in GB says if you go to jail for a felony you may never write a best seller? Why is the ability to please the 110 IQ group such a despicable thing. It's ok to read something that is fun. <BR/><BR/>Why wrong to get of politics becuse you can't afford the life style?<BR/><BR/>Stop whining and just read the books you like and the let the rest of the world read what pleases them.<BR/><BR/>PS. some folk w/ a lower IQ do enjoy reading even if their level is that of a child or teern. STOP JUDGING.<BR/><BR/>If you don't like the author don't read him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-3592458192219919982008-07-04T13:19:00.000+01:002008-07-04T13:19:00.000+01:00I liked his last book (just like I liked the other...I liked his last book (just like I liked the others). Else I am not bothered about what happens in his life, like he is not affected by mine ;-)Pravin Mathewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09022787676867828146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1175023700128126832007-03-27T21:28:00.000+01:002007-03-27T21:28:00.000+01:00I always enjoyed Jeffrey Archer's books...until th...I always enjoyed Jeffrey Archer's books...until this last one. There are so many holes and inconsistencies in False Impressions that I'm not sure who should be blamed: the author or the publisher for allowing this to be printed at all. Probably both.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1171537942167545982007-02-15T11:12:00.000+00:002007-02-15T11:12:00.000+00:00No one kicks a dead dog... Jeffery Archer must hav...No one kicks a dead dog... Jeffery Archer must have something that made him the one he is..<BR/><BR/>.... I actually like his fiction, his personal life is not my concern.archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14202276661112283197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1141204108899116612006-03-01T09:08:00.000+00:002006-03-01T09:08:00.000+00:00well, of course, we have NO IDEA who you are, 'Iai...well, of course, we have NO IDEA who you are, 'Iain'!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1141174108711298712006-03-01T00:48:00.000+00:002006-03-01T00:48:00.000+00:00Here in the colonies, of course, scoundrels are gu...Here in the colonies, of course, scoundrels are guaranteed excellent reviews. <BR/><BR/>I was far more intrigued by your breakdown of IQ's among readership.<BR/>Given what I see displayed on the front counters of books stores, I would differ with you and suggest most of the reading is being done by those well under 100 (with their lips).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1141173959902437312006-03-01T00:45:00.000+00:002006-03-01T00:45:00.000+00:00The GOB is spot on.Jeffrey Archer's work isn't rea...The GOB is spot on.<BR/><BR/>Jeffrey Archer's work isn't really for me, but the fact that I've read four of his books must mean something. For what it's worth, I quite liked <I>First Among Equals</I> and the first volume of his prison diaries, but not his short stories or his first novel <I>Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less</I> (the worst book title in history, incidentally, bar only Robert Byron's <I>First Russia, then Tibet</I>.)<BR/><BR/>Nothing in his writing explains why Jeffrey Archer's work should attract so much more obloquy than that of other highly successful popular novelists.<BR/><BR/>It won't do to say that he is a man of dubious character: no one has ever suggested that Dylan Thomas's selfishness and irresponsibility should cause us to think less of his literary ability.<BR/><BR/>The more you think about it, the odder it is. There must be many writers whose work could be torn apart the way that Archer's so often has been, but they get away with it.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it may just be that, Archer being who he is, people are called on to review his work who would not normally choose to read pulp fiction. All right, they are free to say they don't like it. But why should it make them so angry?<BR/><BR/>I suspect (though I wouldn't dare say it if I thought I might be traceable) that Archer's critics suffer from envy. Here is a successful athlete who marries a beautiful woman (Mary the Fragrant), and becomes an MP before he is 30; when all goes wrong, financial disaster is effortlessly averted by fabulous literary success; back to politics, and a smooth climb to near the top of the greasy pole; all goes pear-shaped again, and this time he goes to prison . . . and comes out fighting, with still more literary success.<BR/><BR/>Jesus, I could just about envy the bugger myself . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1141130506559230312006-02-28T12:41:00.000+00:002006-02-28T12:41:00.000+00:00This is a very insightful post. It occurred to me ...This is a very insightful post. It occurred to me as I read it that if I wanted to write the kind of pot-boiler you describe, I wouldn't know how. I've barely read the genre, and haven't examined it at all. All the rules would change.<BR/><BR/>I can't say your description of it makes it appealing, though. If one wants to make money that badly, there's a lot of better ways to do it nowadays.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15524799342555455519noreply@blogger.com