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[apocalypsos]

So I went to my parents' house for dinner tonight, and my dad gave me one of his old prepaid phones, and my mom gave me her paperback copy of The DaVinci Code because I said I hadn't read it.

I just read the first page.

Okay, here's the thing. The first story I ever wrote was because I read a horrendous romance novel when I was about fifteen that made me fling the damn thing at the nearest wall and shriek, "I can write better than that!" And I couldn't at that point, but I was damn well going to try.

I think if I had read this back then, I wouldn't have become a writer.

I would have become the quarterback for the Eagles.

They wouldn't have had much of a choice but to draft me at that point, really, considering I would have thrown this book hard enough to brain Dan Brown from several states away.

Comments

[ex-zombieham605.livejournal.com]

Argh, yes! I don't understand all this fuss about a book that's absolutely unreadable! I tried the Da Vinci Code and couldn't get more than a couple chapters in because of the shitty prose.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's painful. If I have to see "the curator" one more time, I'm going to bang my head off something. You gave him a name, Brown, use it. Sheesh.

[ex-zombieham605.livejournal.com]

He writes like sixth grader! Severe slender yellow fruit syndrome.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm getting so tired of passive voice right now.