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I'm rereading Richard Yates. Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Sat Jul 30 10:57:27 2011 No.1971506 [Reply] [Original]

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).

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:12:27 2011 No.1971526 Cool?

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Sat Jul 30 11:18:27 2011 No.1971535 >>1971526 I think so. I can't even remember if /lit/ likes Yates or not, or has read him. He makes John Updike look like a neckbeard.

>>	Truman Sat Jul 30 11:19:27 2011 No.1971537 I miss bb's prettier and less slutty threads.

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Sat Jul 30 11:25:27 2011 No.1971544 >>1971537 They were annoying, but (most) made me laugh, especially the more realistic ones. Did anyone make an archive? I'd kill to look through it. So many reidiculous scenarios that almost certainly didn't happen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:41:27 2011 No.1971565 I haven't been on lit for a couple of months, does Brownbear still make 'prettier and less slutty' threads?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:43:27 2011 No.1971566 >>1971544 >>1971537 Oh I guess I should have read the thread first. Too bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:44:27 2011 No.1971567 it's gonna be lol when tao lin releases OP's pic as his next collection and everyone realises brownbear = tao lin all along

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:52:27 2011 No.1971579 File: 29 KB, 336x336, So_Sad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971565 brownbear and tom harper died together a few days ago as planned by their secret lovers suicide pact

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:56:27 2011 No.1971582 File: 52 KB, 600x461, 1312019735001..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971579 they found out that isabelle huppert and tybrax did it and it devastated them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:56:27 2011 No.1971583 >>1971579 Fuck off, troll. I've seen BB posting two days ago.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:58:27 2011 No.1971587 >>1971583 not the same tripcode, it's an impersonator

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 11:59:27 2011 No.1971588 >>1971583 canttakeajoke.jpg

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:02:27 2011 No.1971593 File: 6 KB, 200x121, 1312031786001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971579 >>1971582 >>1971583 >>1971587 >>1971588

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:09:27 2011 No.1971599 >>1971582 The only reason I can think of for making that pact with tybrax would be so that I could pull out at the last minute and have the unique opportunity of watching him die.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:10:27 2011 No.1971601 File: 16 KB, 278x278, heath-as-joker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971588 Who's joking? I guess you just don't frequent /lit/'s chat-room.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:12:27 2011 No.1971604 >>1971601 are brownbear and tom an item now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:19:27 2011 No.1971619 File: 73 KB, 300x300, tumblr_l9g4ztlD8M1qdyay5o1_400.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971604 more or less

>>	Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) Sat Jul 30 12:20:27 2011 No.1971620 File: 498 KB, 400x230, requiem-for-a-dream-harry1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971604 How does one date a dead guy? but no, they totally are.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:24:27 2011 No.1971625 Yeah I'm pretty sure Brownbears alive, sorry guys. Also Isabelle left long before Tybrax. Don't know what you're talking about bro.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:30:27 2011 No.1971634 who wasted their time to make that picture?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:30:27 2011 No.1971635 >>1971634 His boyfriend of course.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:31:27 2011 No.1971637 >>1971620 Well I'm glad everyone found someone.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:31:27 2011 No.1971636 >>1971635 Sunhawk is gay?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:32:27 2011 No.1971639 File: 98 KB, 500x500, whyamilaughing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1971625 >Brownbears alive, sorry guys

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:35:27 2011 No.1971642 I've read his short stories and I agree with the OP. Some of them are still great though. Very realistic dialogue and interactions.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 12:45:27 2011 No.1971660 Did Tom Harper kill himself? Brownbear didn't, but I am sure Tom Harper said he was going to.

>>	sage sage Sat Jul 30 12:51:27 2011 No.1971676 Richard Yates thread here, guys. Tell your sad suicidal tripfags stories elsewhere.

Shitbear !!jLmffO4D1r9 Sat Jul 30 13:12:27 2011 No.1971720

>In middle school
>Looking through school library for some Vonnegut books
>Girl walks up
>"I want to have sex with you because you read."
>I see she has a copy of "No Fear Shakespeare" in her hand.
>I reject her.

Get it? This would never happen in real life.

Can I be funny now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:02:12 2011 No.1971814 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:10:27 2011 No.1971835 File: 702 KB, 598x598, 2gether4ever.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] never forget, /lit/ never forget ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:26:27 2011 No.1971877 >>1971835 That breaks my heart.

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Sat Jul 30 14:27:27 2011 No.1971880 >>1971601 I didn't know /lit/ had an ongoing chat room. I thought it was just made from time to time. I've been there before, it's decent, soft of. Oh yeah.

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Sat Jul 30 14:33:27 2011 No.1971900 >>1971893 Yeah, it represents his work fairly well, and is probably my favourite by him. Then read Revolutionary Road, and maybe all his other works.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:33:27 2011 No.1971893 is the easter parade a good introduction to him?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:36:27 2011 No.1971904 >>1971880 It was founded and is run by bb.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:38:27 2011 No.1971910 >>1971904 the current one maybe, there were at least three before that run by some anon with an O name brownbear really has no ideas on his own

>>	Sunhawk !nZQ2xl.g.6 Sat Jul 30 14:43:27 2011 No.1971920 >>1971910 url plz

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:45:27 2011 No.1971923 >>1971920 http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=litclub

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:47:27 2011 No.1971928 >>1971920 It's litclub, but it might be dead by now with the demise of bb

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 15:03:27 2011 No.1971971 I miss Tom, he may not have been on topic but out of all the tripfags he seemed the most likable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 15:05:27 2011 No.1971977 In the chatroom there's a guy pretending to be Brownbear. But you can tell it's not him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 15:09:27 2011 No.1971978 >>1971977 It's him idiot. It's how he acts there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 15:11:27 2011 No.1971993 i'm in manchester have a post coitus cig in BB's room. he's not dead.

>>	Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) Sat Jul 30 15:14:27 2011 No.1971999 File: 178 KB, 640x480, 398031483_0221e2fd72_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm not even going to lie. When I first saw this thread and the BB image I thought this was about the Tao Lin book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 15:30:27 2011 No.1972042 >>1971971 hi Tom.

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