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.
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?Originally Posted by My name is red
Oh i got an answer for this one:MİLAN KUNDERA
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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
While you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple.You've severed the connexion between,the apple and the tree:the organic connexion. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...
You've fallen off the tree.
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.
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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...
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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.
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
Faulkner's technical style shifts throughout that novel, ranging from simplistic and completely extroverted (Benjy) to lyrical and drawn out (Quentin).
Authors like these deserve the benefit of the doubt. Before you simply dismiss an author because he appears, on first notice, to be difficult, ask yourself "why would an author employ very long sentences?" You wouldn't pick up a Shakespearean play and say "Oh, Shakespeare uses 'thou' and 'ye', I give up!"
what world are you living in. You really don't like TKAM?
I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
Guess there are philistines in every cultural epoch.
Finally! Someone who understands! What on earth are the people saying below me about 'philistines'? It's a so-so book not a grand classic.
There is probably a reason why she didn't write another book...
Definitely agree on J. K. Rowling. Read the first six books because I was young and everyone was reading them then got seven chapters through the latest one, put it down and haven't picked it up since.
Hi, Red,
I'm intrigued by your quote. Is that a quote of your own? If not, could you tell me where you read it? I liked the analogy of the apple/tree, but as soon as we form a thought or opinion of our own, we're doomed to the ground. Of course, we are in great company.
"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare." W.H. Davies
This world - hell, I'd go so far as to say I really, really don't like that book. When it comes to that text, or Harry Potter, I'm almost of the mind to say I like Harry Potter more (almost, though I think I like to Kill a Mockingbird more, as it is only one volume, and only 300 pages as apposed to several thousand).
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Heh! who would want to be transported to a world where if you shake a stick up and down a few times, white sparks come out!
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