The Writer of the Miley Cyrus "Epic" 'The Last Song', Compares Himself to Hemingway!?

[Brian Damage]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/...ong11_CV_N.htm

Playing His Song: Good thing Nicholas Sparks is a mega-bestselling author of romance love stories. On the basis of this USA Today interview, I don't think he could make a living as a literary critic.

Cormac McCarthy? "Horrible," he says, looking at Blood Meridian. "This is probably the most pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic cowboy vs. Indians story ever written."

Meanwhile, Sparks likens himself to... well, see for yourself:

"I write in a genre that was not defined by me. The examples were not set out by me. They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. They were called the Greek tragedies....What is the purpose of what I do? These are love stories. They went from (Greek tragedies), to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, then Jane Austen did it, put a new human twist on it. Hemingway did it with A Farewell to Arms."


That's one of his favorites, and he points it out as he walks the aisles of the bookstore.

"Hemingway. See, they're recommending The Garden of Eden, and I read that. It was published after he was dead. It's a weird story about this honeymoon couple, and a third woman gets involved. Uh, it's not my cup of tea." Sparks pulls the one beside it off the shelf. "A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway. Good stuff. That's what I write," he says, putting it back. "That's what I write."

And the coup de grace:

Asked what he likes in his own genre, Sparks replies: "There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do."

I'm sure Hemingway would agree with all of the above if he were alive today. Especially after he caught the film version of Spark's novel The Last Song, which hits theaters this weekend with Miley Cyrus in the lead. Papa would dab his drizzling eyes and declare, "Best [BLEEP]ing [BLEEP] writer of all time! He's right, y'know — that is what I write."

[catlover79]

I think someone is living in the state of delusion.