RE: What is your favorite novel?
March 13, 2013 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 5:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I thought it was a great exercise in craft but utterly forgettable as a narrative. I have to be continually reminded that it's the "greatest blah blah blah" or I forget that I ever read it.......but opinions are alot like assholes.
(I've been told that the author was actually going for this specifically - that's what makes it so great, modernism.....I really don't care, I still think it was boring and a waste of clear talent-tell me an interesting stry or I won't feed you, no matter how beautifully your boring story is told, tell me an interesting story in a horrid way and you'll still get your dinner, we can get wasted later and talk about how t "cough" embellish the narrative.)
(I've been told that the author was actually going for this specifically - that's what makes it so great, modernism.....I really don't care, I still think it was boring and a waste of clear talent-tell me an interesting stry or I won't feed you, no matter how beautifully your boring story is told, tell me an interesting story in a horrid way and you'll still get your dinner, we can get wasted later and talk about how t "cough" embellish the narrative.)
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