tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post6082695535403830645..comments2024-03-14T13:06:38.883+00:00Comments on cultural snow: By the licking of my thumbsTim Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-37130765420683490842009-12-21T00:20:40.139+00:002009-12-21T00:20:40.139+00:00Interesting post, but a GREAT title!Interesting post, but a GREAT title!Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15531786931730633495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-4241302058273733482009-12-13T22:02:35.485+00:002009-12-13T22:02:35.485+00:00Like the idea of the Bayard book.
Also will now ha...Like the idea of the Bayard book.<br />Also will now have to read the Uncommon Reader because of the excerpt. unless Dr Hocking persuades me otherwise. (Hasn't done so far.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-5680265975011318862009-12-13T20:25:21.501+00:002009-12-13T20:25:21.501+00:00At least Katie Price bothered with a ghost writer ...At least Katie Price bothered with a ghost writer unlike Martine McCutcheon.<br /><br />I like the Bayard book, I am assuming he is joking though.Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158459069493765198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-1826250092020648572009-12-13T19:44:30.030+00:002009-12-13T19:44:30.030+00:00I was thinking about this 'special authority&#...I was thinking about this 'special authority' thing recently, watching a friend play in a band who were tremendously enjoyable, but appeared not to be very in control of *why* they were tremendously enjoyable. Some of the time, anyway. It occurred to me that I was inferring authorial intent as I watched, and measuring the performance against that.<br /><br />This is my problem with the 'Death of the Author' idea: authors are present in their own books. They write their own ideas in their own styles of writing, and even if they try to disrupt this, they inevitably do so in their own fashion. If the author has no authority over the text, he / she at least has some influence over the conception of him / herself in the minds of readers.<br /><br />Of course, this influence is lost if people are reading summaries. I suppose if they are doing that and passing the knowledge off as first hand, that makes them unreliable narrators, which you would expect their own audiences to pick up on if they read them in enough detail.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961928950277859778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-17351247837483320492009-12-13T18:10:26.633+00:002009-12-13T18:10:26.633+00:00I have organised several signing sessions with peo...I have organised several signing sessions with people who don't write their own books. <br /><br />The most depressing was Katie Price, who resembled an orange nine-year-old with two large apples stuffed up their jumper. She was perfectly fine, but her fans were a sorry bunch. <br /><br />Many had already bought the book at W H Smith, as they weren't sure if we would be selling it (!) and I saw a seven-year-old girl dressed as a hooker. Her mother was overheard saying that she dressed her daughter like Jordan because she was a "role model".<br /><br />I know that ghost-writing is nothing new, but in the age of the celebrity, it has reached new heights (or depths).Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-23537308633060611792009-12-12T19:17:10.733+00:002009-12-12T19:17:10.733+00:00Interesting post, Tim. This Bayard character can&#...Interesting post, Tim. This Bayard character can't be serious, can he?<br /><br />Parenthetically, I bloody hated The Uncommon Reader.<br /><br />Today's word verification: "crenth: (n) One of the two little dents one finds running parallel on the outside of a Lidl part-baked broetchen."Dr Ian Hockinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09120409886797256087noreply@blogger.com