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luka

luka

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craner said:
I though that was obvious! The Allen Mandelbaum translation is really good too.
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You thought it was obvious but I happen to know these people here are the unlettered channel surfing MTV generation nothing is too obvious
 
luka

luka

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wallace is cancelled and there's no court of appeal so don't come crying to me and Craner.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
I don’t even care that he was cancelled for being exposed as a rapey stalker, he was shit before then too just on the basis of his abysmal writing style.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
The only contribution Bret Easton Ellis has made since the 80s was to accurately skewer Wallace as “the most tedious, overrated, tortured, pretentious writer of my generation.”
 
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version

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luka said:
I didn't know he was a rapey stalker I was cancelling him for writing that book
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He threw a woman out of a moving car, stalked her son, got her name tattooed on him, threw a coffee table at her and threatened to buy a gun so he could shoot her husband. Also slept with a bunch of his students, bragged to Franzen about sleeping with a minor and probably did a bunch of other shit too.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
It’s OK now but I was being told I didn’t know anything for saying this when his stock was high. Possibly on a thread on this forum.
 
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version

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I like bits and pieces of Wallace, now and then he hit on something, but I don't like his style. He writes like a nervous public speaker constantly correcting themselves and digging the hole deeper.
 
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version

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I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it was one of the worst big books I've read. I liked bits of it, but there weren't enough of those bits.
 
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Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
You said you didn't like his style.

His style presumably runs from page 1 to page 1500.

Not trying to waterboard you here I just think I'd have given up.
 
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