Most overrated writer?

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Originally Posted by Shaka_Khan

Are you talking about a law in Babylon?

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Yup, I had to read it during lectures ... made quite an impression on me. Hammurabi was overrated, most of the stuff he wrote was merely from other Mesopotamian city-states ... with the sole difference that his got preserved.

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Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Dan Brown. Generic book, spiced up with lies he says are true, an anti-Christian premise, and immeasureable hype from the media.

I never got why Frank Herbert was so well liked, either.

Because he wrote Dune. Have ye not read it?!

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~:cheers:

James Joyce.
The emperor... he has no clothes, ok?

also, i should point out that comedy in the old sense doesn't mean funny, it means the story begins in a state of confusion, with the characters existing under the shadow of something... by the end this confusion has been removed, and the light shines on.

Take the Winters tale... comedy, but so bleak in the first 3 acts it's almost like Lear. So we shouldn't view Shakespeare comedies as being just for laughs.