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Richard Yates. Discovered him this year, and now I'm on my last book. Oh wells. A talented writer, like John Updike but better, who writes some depressing (and therefore good) stuff. His short stories are weaksauce, though. How did he come to be forgotten by 2011? He was the Stephen King (sort of) of the 1960s and 1970s.

>> No.1822391

By Stephen King of the 60's do you mean a completely shitty and overhyped, often proclaimed to be the best of a genre when in fact he's actually facilitated it's death?

Or, like, just popular.

Oh, and
>How did he come to be forgotten by 2011?
By whom was he forgotten?

>> No.1822392

I think you answered your own question...

>> No.1822397
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1822397

>He was the Stephen King
prepare your anus, sunhawk

>> No.1822398

>>1822391

Few serious or casual readers know who heis nowadays, so articles I've read say. Hardly anyone I know has heard of him.

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>depressing automatically makes something good.
>mfw

>> No.1822450

>>1822379

The Stand sucked. The only book I've read by Stephen King, and probably the last I will read by him.

>> No.1822564

can anyone provide a link to one of his short stoires? i'd like to get an impression (yes even though his short stoires are apparently "weaksauce")

i didn't find anything googling.

>> No.1822565

>>1822564
King is actually an excellent short story writer. his work much improves when he's got a word limit

>> No.1822631

>>1822398
Maybe few "casual" readers know him (although they were selling Revolutionary Road paperbacks at the grocery store alongside Nicholas Sparks and Michael Crichton when the movie came out, so...) but he's pretty well known among "serious" ones for sure, at least in America. He had kind of a resurgence in trendiness in recent years.

Also, did you know that Larry David dated his daughter and based the character of Elaine's father from Seinfeld on him? ALSO also, have you read any Cheever? I know you love your pasty middle-class misery.

>> No.1823853

>>1822564
http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/yates01.html

>> No.1825221

sunhawk you dingus how many threads are you going to make about beating the final boss of yates' oeuvre

>> No.1825240

For anyone wondering, I'll continue to create new threads for every book I read, every author I finish, and whatever else I feel like. Expect to see a lot more from me. I'll try to make daily threads if I can.

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>>1825240

>> No.1825256

yate's short stories are great

they are all pretty similar but he still does what he does well

IMHO

>> No.1825322

>>1825240
well

at least it's better than making a thread every time you clip your toe nails or meet an imaginary girl