Oh, how bad I wanted to hear him read the scene where Caroline and the boys leave without eating his grill and how Gary forces himself, in a serious act of clinical depression, NOT to think of all the animals that gave up their life to finally end up as meat in the trash can.
Oldest trick in the book. Who can't resist reading about food? Just pick up a couple of cookbooks from the library and start making lists of savories. As a writer you can fill dozens of pages with that. And get away with it. Maybe get short-listed for awards. Watch out for Oprah though! She'll try to drag you into the mainstream and hold your head down under water until you give it up. O! those grilled zucchinis and red bell peppers, slathered with olive oil, sizzling cheek by jowl with the lamb chops and kosher sausages. Stop me before I win a Pulitzer!!!
@ccrosbie33 Isn't it equally pretentious to call another pretentious? But--check this out--isn't it pretentious to call another pretentious that called another pretentious? But, you know what? It's even more pretentious to point out that calling another pretentious who had called another pretentious pretentious. And so on ad infinitum...:0
@ThisSentenceIsFalse Pretty clever comment, I'd say. (Sans sarcasm) Of course I don't think by definition that recognizing obvious pretentiousness in another automatically makes the identifier pretentious, but your perpetual motion theory is at least pretty witty...
Well, think about it this way: if Franzen had 40 million views, that would mean his work would be the lowest common denominator. It wouldn't be anything special.
@dominice112
I read "freedom" A new way of writing.
now I'm reading "The Corrections "
I just think he's a genius.
Oh, how bad I wanted to hear him read the scene where Caroline and the boys leave without eating his grill and how Gary forces himself, in a serious act of clinical depression, NOT to think of all the animals that gave up their life to finally end up as meat in the trash can.
A satisfying listen. get mp3 version@ tinyurl . com \ p4v23ox . delete spaces.
@dominice112
I'm trying reading The Corrections but It's not easy to find enough time outside of work
Oldest trick in the book. Who can't resist reading about food? Just pick up a couple of cookbooks from the library and start making lists of savories. As a writer you can fill dozens of pages with that. And get away with it. Maybe get short-listed for awards. Watch out for Oprah though! She'll try to drag you into the mainstream and hold your head down under water until you give it up. O! those grilled zucchinis and red bell peppers, slathered with olive oil, sizzling cheek by jowl with the lamb chops and kosher sausages. Stop me before I win a Pulitzer!!!
Justin Bieber: 40 million views
Jonathan Franzen: 1,762 views
The end of culture as we know it.
@ccrosbie33 Isn't it equally pretentious to call another pretentious? But--check this out--isn't it pretentious to call another pretentious that called another pretentious? But, you know what? It's even more pretentious to point out that calling another pretentious who had called another pretentious pretentious. And so on ad infinitum...:0
@ThisSentenceIsFalse Pretty clever comment, I'd say. (Sans sarcasm)
Of course I don't think by definition that recognizing obvious pretentiousness in another automatically makes the identifier pretentious, but your perpetual motion theory is at least pretty witty...
@kainniak1 yes
@dominice112
uhuh?? O_o
Don't be jealous because Jonathan Franzen is a better writer than you
Pompous or not, I think he's totally hot in that elbow pad cardigan kind of way
Well, think about it this way: if Franzen had 40 million views, that would mean his work would be the lowest common denominator. It wouldn't be anything special.
Yeah but imagine if this was the MIDDLE of the bell curve instead of the top 1%. We'd be in a cultural utopia.
@ccrosbie33 :)
I loved the book. I hate this. Hate it.
@Savorist Bieber and Franzen may not be close in views, but rest assured they are equal in pretentiousness...