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Overrated modern American novelists
Posted on 7/27/18 at 10:20 pm
Posted on 7/27/18 at 10:20 pm
Pat Conroy tops my list. Aspires to be Faulkner; comes off as whiney.
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Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:43 am to Jim Rockford
Jonathan Franzen, hands down.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 2:28 pm to Jim Rockford
Too many to list.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 11:34 am to JawjaTigah
The board is bored, List them, anyway. Lol
Posted on 7/31/18 at 12:55 pm to Jim Rockford
Not "modern" as in "current," but modern as in time period, I'd say Hemingway, Salinger, and Vonnegut.
All are snoozetown.
All are snoozetown.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 1:00 pm to tigahbruh
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Hemingway
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snoozetown.
Maybe movies are more your thing?
Posted on 7/31/18 at 3:37 pm to tigahbruh
I love Hemingway but I find it hard to believe modern day publishing houses would go for his style.
Posted on 7/31/18 at 4:27 pm to S
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I love Hemingway but I find it hard to believe modern day publishing houses would go for his style.
I can go with that.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 4:03 pm to Jim Rockford
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Pat Conroy tops my list. Aspires to be Faulkner; comes off as whiney.
Beach Music made me want to slit my wrists, and not because of anything particularly sad or depressing imparted in the book--just the reading experience overall.
I liked others of his ok.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 8:15 pm to Jim Rockford
Not overrated but I’m 200 pages into “Poland” and Michener is not my favorite.
Posted on 8/1/18 at 8:25 pm to S
I love Hemingway as well, but I was pretty let down by his simple simple style. His writing is good. It is not pretty.
ETA: I’ll throw King in the mix. Big bag of meh for me.
ETA: I’ll throw King in the mix. Big bag of meh for me.
This post was edited on 8/1/18 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 8/1/18 at 8:43 pm to Jim Rockford
Stephen King
Posted on 8/2/18 at 8:44 am to Jim Rockford
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Pat Conroy tops my list. Aspires to be Faulkner; comes off as whiney.
He may or may not be a good author but I have no desire to read him again, ever. His sensitive protagonist schtick gets really tedious. It's pretty obvious he was bullied as a kid.
Posted on 8/2/18 at 9:09 am to Dubosed
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Stephen King
One of the greatest storytellers, but yeah he lacks a lot as a novelist. I think even he would admit that.
Posted on 8/2/18 at 9:30 am to The Spleen
I have enjoyed what I read of Conroy.
Lords of Discipline was excellent.
Beach Music was good.
Prince of Tides was ok.
Lords of Discipline was excellent.
Beach Music was good.
Prince of Tides was ok.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 11:29 pm to Tigris
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His sensitive protagonist schtick gets really tedious. It's pretty obvious he was bullied as a kid.
Posted on 8/12/18 at 11:04 am to The Spleen
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Stephen King
My immediate thought
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One of the greatest storytellers, but yeah he lacks a lot as a novelist.
This is an apt description. He’s amazing at building characters and compelling stories, but very hit or miss on where that leads.
Posted on 8/12/18 at 4:45 pm to Jim Rockford
Speaking of Conroe, I laughed my arse off watching movie version of Prince of Tides with Nolte and Streisand.
“ Lowenstein, Lowenstein” just awful but cracked me up.
“ Lowenstein, Lowenstein” just awful but cracked me up.
Posted on 8/12/18 at 5:00 pm to Jim Rockford
I recommend that people check out John Connolly. He’s in the brutal, hard boiled detective genre, but with thriller elements.
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