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Anyone else getting just a tiny bit tired of the mainstream media's sudden knob-slobbing of him? He is marginally talented at best. A poor man's John Updike, and even he was a colossal bore.
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Jonathan Franzen Backlash Thread
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What are they k-s-ing over him about? I've missed it, not being a very active consumer of MSM.
What little I know of him suggests he's annoying self-important. But I would disagree with "marginally talented at best". The Corrections was a really good, enjoyable book, and his earlier book about St. Louis was ok. He probably isn't as talented as he thinks he is, but that's an entirely different question.
What little I know of him suggests he's annoying self-important. But I would disagree with "marginally talented at best". The Corrections was a really good, enjoyable book, and his earlier book about St. Louis was ok. He probably isn't as talented as he thinks he is, but that's an entirely different question.
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who datOriginally Posted by gdl203
An annoying, nerdy, schmucky novelist that Time magazine recently declared "The Great American Novelist," and whose upcoming book has been called "The Great American Novel" by about 20 different papers and magazines.
It's an angst-ridden yawnfest about the secret struggles of a middle class American family. Because, ya know, that subject has never been explored in print or on film.
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An annoying, nerdy, schmucky novelist that Time magazine recently declared "The Great American Novelist," and whose upcoming book has been called "The Great American Novel" by about 20 different papers and magazines.Originally Posted by Arrogant Bastard
It's an angst-ridden yawnfest about the secret struggles of a middle class American family. Because, ya know, that subject has never been explored in print or on film.
Sounds like a literary Paul Thomas Anderson
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I'd love to hear you qualify this.Originally Posted by mharwitt
Feel free to search the cinema thread for the discussions of PTA around the time of TWBB.
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you think Aronofsky is "ground-breaking."Originally Posted by mharwitt
I'm not following this conversation - what point are you making ? Are you simply trying to say that you love PTA's work and that my comment above was unwarranted - and in order to get that simple statement out, you prefer to refer to unrelated things I wrote about another director?
I don't know if I wrote that Aronofsky is ground-breaking (I may have) but he is a very talented director with a lot of original ideas. He's no Orson Welles or Stanley Kubrick but he's strong and I don't continually roll my eyes when I watch his stuff (unlike most of PTA's). YMMW of course.
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Are you simply trying to say that you love PTA's work and that my comment above was unwarranted - and in order to get that simple statement out, you prefer to refer to unrelated things I wrote about another director?Originally Posted by gdl203
yes.
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Aronofsky>>PTA
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