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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 01, 2011, 02:31:07 pm ---I just noticed that the back cover of the January 24 issue includes an ad for Annie Proulx's memoir.
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Do I have to turn in my Brokie card if I say that her memoir doesn't sound very good?
Front-Ranger:
Not in my book, friend. Brokeback Mountain stands out among all the works I've read by Proulx as unique. She is famously regarded as one of the most unreadable great writers, right up there with Pynchon, Joyce, and Faulkner. I have the CD reserved at the library and I will go pick it up as soon as the weather clears. I'm planning to skip past all the real estate stuff. I'm sure there will be plenty of interesting bits about Wyoming and its fascinating characters.
I read all of Postcards, but only because I was in the hospital at the time. I've never been able to make it to the end of Accordion Crimes or Shipping News. I've read two or three of her short story collections, but those are easy. Yet I've read Brokeback Mountain about a gazillion times.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: crayonlicious on February 01, 2011, 03:02:21 pm ---Do I have to turn in my Brokie card if I say that her memoir doesn't sound very good?
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If I get around to reading it as quickly as I've read the short story collections, there's little danger of me ever actually reading it. ::) But if it reads like the essay "Getting Movied," it might have some entertainment value.
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 01, 2011, 03:51:25 pm ---She is famously regarded as one of the most unreadable great writers, right up there with Pynchon, Joyce, and Faulkner.
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Really? Jeez, I never got the memo. Did somebody actually compare her to Faulkner? That's interesting! :D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 01, 2011, 04:18:33 pm ---Really? Jeez, I never got the memo. Did somebody actually compare her to Faulkner? That's interesting! :D
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The only Faulkner novel I've read is "The Sound and the Fury." I would say it was much more difficult than understand than Proulx (or his own short stories) -- I used a Cliff's Notes to help decipher it. But personally, I found it more rewarding.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 01, 2011, 04:18:33 pm ---Really? Jeez, I never got the memo. Did somebody actually compare her to Faulkner? That's interesting! :D
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Yes, I did.
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