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Re-read "Boys Life" by Robert McCammon and loved it again, as always. What a great book. The parts about his bicycles has always resonated with me. The Lady talking about how they have deer and horse and a bit of lizard is just so true for me.
#RobertMcCammon #p_lit_ps_American #BoysLife #Novel #Stories #Writing #Bildungsroman
#BikeTooter ##Bicycling #Bicycles #Alabama -
Re-read "Boys Life" by Robert McCammon and loved it again, as always. What a great book. The parts about his bicycles has always resonated with me. The Lady talking about how they have deer and horse and a bit of lizard is just so true for me.
#RobertMcCammon #p_lit_ps_American #BoysLife #Novel #Stories #Writing #Bildungsroman
#BikeTooter ##Bicycling #Bicycles #Alabama -
Re-read "Boys Life" by Robert McCammon and loved it again, as always. What a great book. The parts about his bicycles has always resonated with me. The Lady talking about how they have deer and horse and a bit of lizard is just so true for me.
#RobertMcCammon #p_lit_ps_American #BoysLife #Novel #Stories #Writing #Bildungsroman
#BikeTooter ##Bicycling #Bicycles #Alabama -
Re-read "Boys Life" by Robert McCammon and loved it again, as always. What a great book. The parts about his bicycles has always resonated with me. The Lady talking about how they have deer and horse and a bit of lizard is just so true for me.
#RobertMcCammon #p_lit_ps_American #BoysLife #Novel #Stories #Writing #Bildungsroman
#BikeTooter ##Bicycling #Bicycles #Alabama -
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.
Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.
Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.
Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.
Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.
#Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman
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Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.
Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.
Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.
Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.
Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.
#Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman
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Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.
Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.
Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.
Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.
Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.
#Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman
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Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.
Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.
Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.
Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.
Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.
#Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman
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Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.
Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.
Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.
Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.
Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.
#Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman
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Halfway through this trippy paean to #Pan - highly recommend.
#Bookstodon #Fiction #ArthurMachen #Weird #Pagan #Panic #Bildungsroman -
I... am I a fan of Dark Academia? Should I really derive pleasure from Quentin's suffering?
I enjoy noticing his bullshit being pummelled out of him, eventually feeling paternal for someone making the same impulsive self-miseries.Dark Academia is nerdy Icarus but rich and depressed?
https://nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-the-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/(Piranesi is still bad and should still feel bad.) I cannot overemphasise my indignant disregard & disgust for Piranesi.
It felt like... idfk, "autism-face"?!#book #BookTok #lit #literature #read #reading #media #MediaAnalysis #books #analytics #TheMagicians #TheMagicianKing #TheMagiciansLand #LevGrossman #author #story #ComingOfAge #Bildungsroman
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I... am I a fan of Dark Academia? Should I really derive pleasure from Quentin's suffering?
I enjoy noticing his bullshit being pummelled out of him, eventually feeling paternal for someone making the same impulsive self-miseries.Dark Academia is nerdy Icarus but rich and depressed?
https://nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-the-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/(Piranesi is still bad and should still feel bad.) I cannot overemphasise my indignant disregard & disgust for Piranesi.
It felt like... idfk, "autism-face"?!#book #BookTok #lit #literature #read #reading #media #MediaAnalysis #books #analytics #TheMagicians #TheMagicianKing #TheMagiciansLand #LevGrossman #author #story #ComingOfAge #Bildungsroman
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I... am I a fan of Dark Academia? Should I really derive pleasure from Quentin's suffering?
I enjoy noticing his bullshit being pummelled out of him, eventually feeling paternal for someone making the same impulsive self-miseries.Dark Academia is nerdy Icarus but rich and depressed?
https://nebula.tv/videos/lauracrone-the-harry-potter-for-grownups-industrial-complex/(Piranesi is still bad and should still feel bad.) I cannot overemphasise my indignant disregard & disgust for Piranesi.
It felt like... idfk, "autism-face"?!#book #BookTok #lit #literature #read #reading #media #MediaAnalysis #books #analytics #TheMagicians #TheMagicianKing #TheMagiciansLand #LevGrossman #author #story #ComingOfAge #Bildungsroman
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗮 𝗛𝗮 𝗛𝗮" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝘆𝗹𝗲 -
Clarke's hilarious and misfortunate 10-year-old narrator dominates the novel, almost obscuring our unease about this deeper bildungsroman.
#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #paddyclarkehahaha #roddydoyle #ireland #novel #bildungsroman
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anyway let me start with a banger methinks. I make art like this :3 support my existence through a commission if you like :)
#indie-comics #trans #trans-art #queer #queer-art #illustration #art #paper-collage #collage #mixed-media #eric-carle #transgender-art #experimental-art #cut-paper #fantasy #low-fantasy #high-fantasy #magical-realism #adventure #action-comics #bildungsroman #indie-writer #indie -
ICYMI, I took a look back at some of the young adult book covers of 2023
http://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2024/01/17/notable-ya-covers-of-2023/
#books #youngadult #ya #fantasy #bildungsroman #diversebooks #illustration #design #lettering #bestof2023