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Alexander Dumas wrote a total of 277 novels over his lifetime – six every year of his working life Woah, that is insane.
by vijayr 9y ago
Alexander Dumas wrote a total of 277 novels over his lifetime – six every year of his working life
Woah, that is insane.
- gallamine 9y agoIsaac Asimov wrote 500 books in his 72 years of life. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#cite_note-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#cite_note-3)
- anigbrowl 9y agoTrue...but while his ideas were great, his writing hasn't aged well. I picked up a Foundation novel in a thrift store a few months ago in a moment of nostalgia and found myself cringing so much that it was a relief to reach the end. Television soap operas are also impressive in purely quantitative terms, but that doesn't make them good, does it?
- jogjayr 9y ago> I picked up a Foundation novel in a thrift store a few months ago in a moment of nostalgia and found myself cringing so much that it was a relief to reach the end. Leaving out the tacky technology (nuclear-powered kitchen knives? really?) and society seemingly in a 1950s stasis, what did you find cringeworthy, if you don't mind me asking? I re-read Foundation last year and nothing else obviously bad popped out.
- anigbrowl 9y agoThe dialog. The pacing, The...just everything. It's not just the age; I can laugh out loud at the jokes in 18th century French literature because the characters and dialog feel truthful. It's like a movie with a great plot but really bad acting, you know?
- cicero 9y agoAsimov's poor dialog, writing style, and character development were recognized from the beginning. His writings stood out because of the ideas they contained, which admittedly are not as impressive 50 years later because they are not new anymore. Similarly, William Shatner's bad acting does not change the fact that Star Trek caught the imagination of a generation.
- anigbrowl 9y agoWell, that's basically what I said in the first place :-/
- jdietrich 9y agoTV presents an interesting example of quantity versus quality. British networks tend to commission very short compared to American networks. For example, the British version of The Office had a total of 14 episodes, versus 201 episodes for the American version. Quantity is clearly more directly profitable, but quality seems to be disproportionately influential. British broadcasters have remarkable success in exporting programmes and formats internationally.
- gommm 9y agoIt's also stretching the truth a little bit. Dumas had 45 employees who worked with him to write the novels. So, he was more running a studio with a process to create great novels rather than actually writing each novel.
- reddit_clone 9y agoAh. So James Patterson didn't invent the fiction sweatshops? Are all Dumas novels written this way? Even the 'big' ones like Count of MC and Three musketeers?
- gommm 9y agoHi, sorry, didn't see your comment before. Yes, even the big ones. A big part of the research and writing of the Count of Monte Cristo was done by Auguste Maquet who was one of his main ghostwriter. August Maquet also worked on all the sequels from the Three Musketeers but not the first novel.