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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

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

it was that bad? heh...there are so many kids at my school reading it and I'm just like fuck that. I'll rent the movie when its out.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's just written so badly. There's so many beginner's mistakes in this thing, and I'm only a few pages in right now.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

And the sad thing is, it's not a first novel.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

i just followed some of the links in the comments and my god...there's no way I could even get past the first two lines.