Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

Any music at all would be preferable to a KJA novel.

KJA is surely one of the most turgid authors ever to have put finger to keyboard. The laughable Dune prequals, the soporific Saga of Seven Snores series, this is writing at it's worst. His work isn't for reading, it's for lying down and avoiding.

Dare I say, he is worse than Dan Brown? I dare!

And you didn't even mention the dreadful Jedi Academy Trilogy. Way to take all the awesome buzz left behind from Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy and swat it dead with a SLEDGEHAMMER of awful.

Fortunately, when I see any book with KJA's name on the cover I have a mini blackout and find myself in a different section of the store with a stack of other books in my arms.

Kevin J. Anderson's writing: blecch.
Prog rock, with rare exceptions: blecch.
Looks like a fine match.

Kevin J. Anderson is no authority on writing and certainly not on music. Io9's integrity would be better served by avoiding Anderson's opinion on either subject.

Also, yay for a new original KJA novel, if only because it means he is not currently desecrating yet another classic franchise.

Rakis wrote:Looks like the sphecial forzes have their hands full...

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I find it rather funny that you're discussing prog rock and science fiction when this "Terra(bly) Incomprehensible" book is bad fantasy at its worst. (And "scifi mega-author"? He only writes science FANTASY at best.)

I loved Pink Floyd and Kansas and listened to some Rush. When I was in high school. What I've heard of this new CD online, musically it's just so much more derivative crap. But the lyrics (Anderson & Bride of Anderstein's real contribution) are often hysterical:

"On paper your words,
your thoughts, your love…
I read with a bleeeeee
ding heart.
The ink is smeared
with a tear, my love.
For my life
was lost
without you."

That still brings tears to my eyes. From laughing so hard.

Rakis wrote:Looks like the sphecial forzes have their hands full...

SandChigger wrote:Nice one, my playah!

Rakis wrote:Looks like the sphecial forzes have their hands full...

Ooh, Rakis! I think you've pried open a fecund new channel of name transformation there!

Sph ... Sph ... Sphinctal Forcers?!

GamePlayer wrote:Glad you all liked it. I figured we'd enjoy this one. I love finding these random occurrences of KJA bashing

"These are songs about dragons and crystal cities," he said with a grin. "You probably couldn't make music like that now, but science fiction movies still use prog rock-like music for their soundtracks. You need music for alien civilizations and this is what works."

Lisan Al-Gaib wrote:Everything that comes through his mouth it's increadibly superficial.

Hunchback Jack wrote:

GamePlayer wrote:Glad you all liked it. I figured we'd enjoy this one. I love finding these random occurrences of KJA bashing

It was great. Sorry I didn't give you credit for the post, GP.

HBJ

SandChigger wrote: Well, thanks, loremaster, but of the older ones, PhantomAss is about the only one I think I can take credit for with confidence.

Pail of Dung - not sure if I was the first to use it or not
Grunters - was Master B, maybe?