Saul Bellow

[craner]

You stupid fucking idiot

 

[luka]

had me thinking bellow was bad enough to merit a reread

 

[Corpsey]

I've read "Dangling man" and I read a bit of "Herzog" in I suppose my early 20s

I gave up in a rage due to lengthy passages of untranslated french

 

[version]

wait i just looked this up its not bellow, its henry miller whos famous for being terrible. disappointing.

You love Miller.

 

[Corpsey]

I read "Tropic of cancer" in my late teens and I can't remember anything about it or why I liked it but I think I liked it because I wanted to get drunk and fuck prostitutes, ala. My love of "on the road"

 

[Corpsey]

Do you rate any Americans Luka? Other than pound. I don't think I've seen you express a single positive thought about an American writer

 

[version]

Do you rate any Americans Luka? Other than pound. I don't think I've seen you express a single positive thought about an American writer

You've somehow missed the hundreds of pages across the forum where he talks about Burroughs then?

 

[Corpsey]

Oh yeah of course

And he even likes that hack Pynchon doesn't he

 

[Corpsey]

Prynne is a very American poet too isn't he with his I'm so clever I know about science schtick

Teehee

 

[version]

He likes Ellroy too. And George Higgins.

 

[Corpsey]

As for me I like novels about the landed gentry wrestling with the evolution of social mores

And I like my ham sandwiches too

 

[Corpsey]

OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze,
A visitant that while it fans my cheek
Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings
From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.
Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come
To none more grateful than to me... M'lady

 

[luka]

i like detective books by americans. genre fiction, they're good at that. nothing literary please.

 

[Corpsey]

I wonder if you'd like 'The Scarlett Letter' or something like that

 

[Corpsey]

huckelberry finn, that might be the best american novel i've read

and i've read at least six

 

[luka]

not read that one yey, keep meaning to

 

[sus]

wait i just looked this up its not bellow, its henry miller whos famous for being terrible. disappointing.

@henrymiller

 

[sus]

Do you rate any Americans Luka? Other than pound. I don't think I've seen you express a single positive thought about an American writer

Pound & Eliot

 

[sus]

not read that one yey, keep meaning to

Hecklebury Fenn

 

[shakahislop]

luka texts me rupi kaur poems all the time. he loves her