Tennessee Williams and his stilted melodramas.
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Tennessee Williams and his stilted melodramas.
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Originally Posted by Eryk
Yes, I know his plays can verge into the melodramatic, but that's only because they study the extremes of human nature.
They're passionate, raw, consciously poetic, violent, lonely...perfect for the theatre.
I actually enjoy Woolf's writing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pip
Like you, I do not understand the hype surrounding Salinger or The Catcher in the Rye. I thought the book was boring.
I second that. To be fair, I've only read Not About Nightingales, but it was sappy, tepid, frankly quite the let down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eryk
His earlier and later work is weak, but the era from The Glass Menagerie (1948) to Night of The Iguana (1962) is a brilliant example of good theatre. If you watch The Glass Menagerie and don't cry, you must be evil...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Endon
Oh, definitely J.D. Salinger! I absolutely hated everything about The Catcher in the Rye...
And Faulkner, although I don't feel as strongly about him as I do J.D. Salinger.
Well I suppose I ought to give the man a fair chance. Not About Nightingales is just a big sloppy mess of clichés and bathos (no one will ever convince me otherwise!) yet I'm hoping A Streetcar Named Desire will reconcile me with him. And I guess I could give the Glass a go as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
EDIT: I've just noticed that the Streetcar is from 1947, so before the era you've mentioned. What did you make of it?
Whoops- just worked out that Glass Menagerie- first commercial success- was actually in 1944.
I liked the play, and thought the film was a brilliant adaptation, although it skimmed over some of the parts, like Blanche and the schoolboy...
My personal favourites are Cat on A Hot Tin Roof (steamy and claustrophobic), The Glass Menagerie (terribly sad), Night of The Iguana (sort of tragicomic, less melodramatic than some), and Orpheus Descending (not a commercial success- Southern Gothic style- very moving however).
Oh i got an answer for this one:MİLAN KUNDERA:smash:
There are no overrated writers. There are just some people who like them and some others who don't. Even if you think a particular one is overrated, you're not better alone than the 213453268'23148 other people together.
But have you read more than The undearable lightness of being ? Is this bold statement only based on one novel?Quote:
Originally Posted by My name is red
No,I've also read Immortality.I actually enjoyed it to some extend way more than The Unbearable lightness of being,that's for sure.But still i think he is overrated.Especially,when some consider him as the last existentialist,I'm like that's enough.Existentialist?Not even near.You see,existentialism kind of a sour point with me :idea:Quote:
Originally Posted by thomas212
read through the first bit of the thread and have to say that I really enjoyed Hemmingway, Salingher and Fittsgerald, as a matter of fact those three athours have to be sopme of my favourites. I own and reread all there books, have collected all their short stories, and have consumed much of my time just discussing their works and sifting through there genius.
As of right now of all the authors I have ever read the best short story writer I have ever come across has been J.D. Salingher, his How to Write a Love Story wittingly belittles the traditional romance novel that has made ever real man's life hell when they begin a relationship. His writing I actually find quite underrated.
As for those who name Rowlings or Brown, it is no doubt they are overrated, they have to be if they are as popular as they are now, but in 50 years time they will take their place in literature like everyone else and will no longer be overrated. They have some talent and they both can tell a good story, so I would not really list them yet.
For me overrate, I wouldn't say overrated persay becasue his writtening is obviously influencial, it's just not my cup of tea and that is Charles Dickens.
I didn't like 'to kill a mockingbird', and as I recall it was the only book Harper Lee wrote so in my opinion she is very overrated...
I still remember choking on Faulkner in high school...only one book, but it was excrutiating.
Omg, i just saw that he won a Nobel Prize. Whoa is me!
And just read an excerpt from The Sound and the Fury. Can't say I appreciate the choppy little sentences. Though if memory serves, he also wrote many sentences that ran on and on like the Amazon or Mississippi.