Comments | mysteree80: Capote rules, Hemingway drools

mysteree80

Capote rules, Hemingway drools

Aug 24, 2009 00:43

I've been reading some short stories by Truman Capote and, wow, the man had a simply wonderful sense of rhythm and aesthetics in prose. His sentences just seem to flow so perfectly. This, this is the model that wannabe writers should be striving for! Our current literary landscape would be a much richer if more writers had tried to emulate Capote ( Read more... )

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jade_sabre_301 August 24 2009, 20:44:22 UTC

I do love me some Capote. There's a hominess to his writing that makes me feel all comfortable. I need to read more of his stories--I've mostly read memoirs of his childhood-type things.

mysteree80 August 25 2009, 05:09:38 UTC

Yes, you should definitely read more! His style varies a lot from story to story - I've been super impressed.

stormvibrations August 24 2009, 22:53:34 UTC

Two thumbs up for Syd Barrett Pink Floyd.

(What, did you think I would actually comment on the content of your actual post? You thought wrong.)

mysteree80 August 25 2009, 05:10:10 UTC

Haha, how would I think such a thing? I learned long ago that you don't actually read my posts, just the Current Music line, haha.

clightenbulb August 25 2009, 11:51:25 UTC

Amen. I dislike Hemmingway intensely.

mysteree80 August 25 2009, 16:29:50 UTC

*high five* :)

changeherworld August 29 2009, 15:11:04 UTC

I've actually never read anything by Hemingway. Flipped through The Sun Also Rises once and it looked boring. You know, I love to read, and I've read more books in the past couple of weeks than I have in the past couple of years (it's hard to find free reading time in grad school!). I just finished The Kite Runner so I'd have a book from Afghanistan for the world book challenge. What should I read next?

mysteree80 August 29 2009, 22:08:24 UTC

Oh, I'm full of recommendations, but you've gotta narrow it down a little bit. What interests you? Any particular genre or time period or length or general tone?

changeherworld August 30 2009, 15:12:25 UTC

I guess the first requirement is high entertainment value. So much of what I have to read for school saps all my brain power so when I read for pleasure it's like watching tv (only way more fun). It'd be nice if the book comes from/is set in a country I haven't fulfilled yet in my world challenge, too, although that's certainly not a requirement. Do you know of any good English translations of South/Central American novels, or any good books from SE Asia?

mysteree80 September 2 2009, 04:43:01 UTC

Well, you told me you already picked up Love in the Times of Cholera. I haven't read that one, but I've read a bunch of others by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and he's definitely an author worth checking out. Probably the biggest name in the boom of 20th Century Latin American lit. Other big name Latin American authors you might wanna check out: Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges (though his stories do require plenty of brain power!), Julio Cortazar, Horacio Quiroga, Isabel Allende, Ernesto Sabato, Mario Benedetti. I'd love to recommend some books from my home country, but I don't know of any that are even translated to English - CR's literary production has been pretty poor in terms of both quantity and quality. Which is why I think it's reasonable for me to aspire to being the Greatest Costa Rican Author of All Time! :D ( ... )