/lit/ - Literature

2011 calling. Bring me up to speed.

I've read All The Pretty Horses, and started The Crossing, and he's basically average. Really simple prose, too much dialogue, random events unfolding, not much...va va voom (sigh).

Explain to me why he gets to win the Pulitzer Prize.

what happened to this board?

Its average age appears to have lowered, and there is a marked increase in first-year student philosopher pissing contest.

>maybe I'm too old for /lit/ now

>>2464438
What happened to him, anyway?

I read his whole body of work this year, and now I'm rereading The Easter Parade, which was my favourite. It's not quite as enjoyable as I remember it being, but still a good book, certainly. Hardly any boring pages on it, even if it is slim.

As a writer, he only had a few major problems:

1. All his books basically the same, especially the style of the dialogue. The guys are angry and swear all the time, the girls are passive and weak.
2. He uses too much dialogue.
3. His books a little too short, but this isn't that big a deal.

I think of him as like a old-time Franzen, Atwood or Munro (but better than Munro, the hackette).