Roberto Bolano is a one-hit wonder.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2037380]

Remember Fountains of Wayne, or La Roux, or Tatu? Yeah, me neither.

He wrote one great book: 2666. It was very good in almost every way, and I've got a lot of enjoyment out of it. So far, so good. He also wrote pretty average stuff like Amulet and Last Evenings on Earth, and complete crap like Monsieur Pain and The Skating Rink. What's his problem? To be fair, it's not so much hackery from the author, more from his publishers, who want to squeeze every last dollar out of his corpse. It's like David Foster Wallace, nothing is too low! I saw a book that was the last interview done with Bolano. It wasn't a special interview, it just happened to be the last one. To say nothing of how his short stories are divied up, with about 250 pages of stories in each collection, when they could be more robust.

Fucking Roberto Bolano.

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2037390]

Implying I don't remember Fountain of Wayne, La Roux or Tatu. although La Roux was terrible, I remember two of her songs.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2037393]

>>2037390

The funny thing is, each of their best songs are good / great, but everything else sucked. Seriously, Stacy's Mom is a great song with a good vidya. I like it when her mom is on the lawnchair, topless on her stomach, with her boobs hanging out. Imagine seeing THAT when you were 12, yes? Good times.

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2037395]

>Implying I forgot about Tatu

Also Bolano also wrote Nazi Literature in The Americas which last time I checked isn't 2666 and therefore he has had atleast 2 good book and the Savage Detectives was okay as well.

I hate you Sunhawk.

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2037396]

>>2037393
>vidya
Also you are vile.

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2037397]

>>2037393
>Stacy's Mom is a great song.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2037400]

>>2037396

Haven't been called vile on /lit/ before.

>>2037395

I haven't read NLITA. I admit, it may be good. How is it? I haven't bought it because it's £20 for a 150 page book.

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2037402]

>>2037400
I picked it up in The Works for £2.99, in hardback.

I really enjoyed. It's just a collection of nice short stories.

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2037403]

>>2037400
It costs £6 on amazon.

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2037405]

>>2037402

Wow, I didn't know. My Waterstones sells it for about £20 (might be £15). Anyway, like I said, I've kinda lost interest in Bolano now, especially with all the whoring him out now. Still wanna read Hispanic writers though...maybe some more Borges.

[Anonymous No.2037406]

>>2037405
WHY NOT READ RUSSIAN LITERATURE?

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2037408]

>>2037406

I do. Calm down.

[Anonymous No.2037411]

>>2037408
IT'S CAPSGUY, YOUR FRIEND

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2037425]

>>2037411

That's right, we are friends. But as I've said before, I read Tolstoy, Dostevsky (sp?), Novokov, and a few others. They aren't exactly easy going, though. Sometimes the humour makes me laugh...sometimes. Russians are pretty serious.

[Fauve !!FWH1V1k3dzn No.2037426]

How many threads have you made saying Bolano was the bee's knees?
Your opinion is worth nothing to me.

[Anonymous No.2037472]

Fountains of Wayne are awesome. Denise, Survival Car, Sink to the Bottom... OK, it's been in a while but I'm, like, 80% sure that those are their songs. Man they can lay down a ditty.

[Anonymous No.2037805]

>>2037393
>each of their best songs are good / great, but everything else sucked
Every song off La Roux's first album was fucking golden though.

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.2037811]

one-hit-wonder general

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cqU1pFRqYE

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2037817]

>>2037472
>FoW
>Awesome
Not even close.

[Anonymous No.2037824]

>>2037817
More musical than Teagan and Sara.

[Anonymous No.2037832]

>>2037472
Oh hell yes! I love Fountains of Wayne. I just got Mexican Wine stuck in my head again, just from seeing this thread.
That's right folks, I'm about to turn off Nirvana for the chance to listen to some 90s pop.

[Anonymous No.2037836]

>>2037832
Except Mexican Wine is off Welcome Interstate Managers, which is from 2003 (not the 90s).

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2037839]

>>2037811
Everytime I hear Sugar Ray I think of Road Rash 3-D.

Everybody wanted to be a freestylaaaaaah in 2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM&ob=av2e

>>2037824
oh boy.

[Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) No.2037842]

>>2037832
>I'm about to turn off Nirvana
So you should, they're terrible.

[Anonymous No.2037920]

Fountains Of Wayne has a sizable catalog of very solid music; some of it just flat out excellent. Learn how to music OP.

[Anonymous No.2037935]

I officially think tripfags are fucking authors or publacists or something cause sunhawk I'm pretty sure you have been jizzin over 2666 for some time now so much so that I expect you to be Robert Balano

[Anonymous No.2037941]

>>2037935

>I expect you to be Robert Balano

Seems unlikely.

[Anonymous No.2037944]

>>2037935
If he was a publicist or the late Bolano, wouldn't he be hyping the newer, more expensive novels?

[Anonymous No.2037946]

>>2037935
I think he's just a dumbass with bad taste in literature

[Anonymous No.2038017]

Fucking Savage Detectives is just as good if not better than 2666.

Wtf: Nazi Literature in the Americas is great.

I agree Skating Rink was kinda/sortof pure shit.

Fucking Roberto Bolano.

[Anonymous No.2038021]

Fountains of Wayne are actually a really good band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4blhM9IU3A

[Anonymous No.2038023]

>>2038021
Oh also, if you look down, this video has the greatest youtube comment in the history of youtube made by youtube user 'divvle'

[Anonymous No.2039957]

La Roux is not a one-hit wonder, their entire album is great. Now they just need to make a few more.

[Anonymous No.2039961]

I read By Night in Chile and thoroughly enjoyed it
also every thread you make is wrong and retarded