Anyone else got a bit bored with Norwegian Wood?

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Schulte · 29/10/2010 20:31

I mean it's a good book and that guy's a great writer but all that shagging and beer drinking is starting to grate. It's a bit like Betty Blue, only Betty Blue is better. Or AIBU?

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MarshaBrady · 29/10/2010 20:42

In my mind (and probably my mind alone) I feel the weight of the wordiness in some authors.

Clever, dragging, too much.

Then I read my old mucker Carver or Camus and feel the tension / excellence in the lack of words.

But then it's probably entirely personal.

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Schulte · 29/10/2010 20:40

Oh? What's the difference between literary and good writing?

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MarshaBrady · 29/10/2010 20:35

She was a student? Argh I hated it!

It was literary but not great writing.

Every writer should read some Raymond Carver and edit edit edit

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Schulte · 29/10/2010 20:35

I do like his style. But all that ever happens is sex and boozing. Maybe I am too old for it?

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Unprune · 29/10/2010 20:34

Haruki Murakami.
Tedious. Yes. I knew I was supposed to like it, but didn't.

MarshaBrady · 29/10/2010 20:33

Remind me, who wrote it?

I think I have read it, if it is a Japanese writer then yes I found it a bit tedious

Unprune · 29/10/2010 20:33

Meh, I didn't like it.

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