armenian
07-19-2008, 11:54 PM
my favorite novels are by satre (nausea), hesse (steppenwolfe), camus (plague, fall, stranger), dostoevsky (notes from underground, c&p, brother kaz), etc. i guess what youd term existentialist novels.
i tried some newer writers like ellis (american pysycho) and palanuik (fight club), and while there are OK, they just arnt nothing special like the older ones.
this guy noah cicero is grouped in with some existentialist writers, and hes a new writer so i figure this could be something cool and different (nothing 'existentialist' has come out recently to my knowledge), and he certainly does have a style to his writing (i think he copied fight club, and being 'blunt' in your writing isnt really something new). unfortunatly, it sucks. its pointless and reads like a list. all over i read reviews how this is genious, etc etc. but its just **** and reads like a 5th grade novel. theres no imagination to his words.
anybody here find him appealing?
is there anytihng like the first authors i mentioned that i should check out? (i plan on looking into kafka and chekov)
heres a link to one of his books thats getting all good feedback
http://books.google.com/books?id=CIjhoy7YxiMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=noah+cicero&ei=XraCSPCYLYbujgGIqbm-Bg&sig=ACfU3U09qiSJgef_1gQuCw6IdL6I60sZfw
i tried some newer writers like ellis (american pysycho) and palanuik (fight club), and while there are OK, they just arnt nothing special like the older ones.
this guy noah cicero is grouped in with some existentialist writers, and hes a new writer so i figure this could be something cool and different (nothing 'existentialist' has come out recently to my knowledge), and he certainly does have a style to his writing (i think he copied fight club, and being 'blunt' in your writing isnt really something new). unfortunatly, it sucks. its pointless and reads like a list. all over i read reviews how this is genious, etc etc. but its just **** and reads like a 5th grade novel. theres no imagination to his words.
anybody here find him appealing?
is there anytihng like the first authors i mentioned that i should check out? (i plan on looking into kafka and chekov)
heres a link to one of his books thats getting all good feedback
http://books.google.com/books?id=CIjhoy7YxiMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=noah+cicero&ei=XraCSPCYLYbujgGIqbm-Bg&sig=ACfU3U09qiSJgef_1gQuCw6IdL6I60sZfw