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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-03 05:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2101 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2101 ⌋

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[personal profile] stainless 2012-10-04 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
I liked the story, too. Really loved how sparse it was.

I'm now feeling like I'm either a genius or crazy.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-04 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
No you're just reading the movie correctly and more intelligent than the people with whom you're talking about it here. Anyone who compares Annie Proulux with Smeyer is a moron.
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[personal profile] stainless 2012-10-04 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I was feeling like I was in Bizarro World. "Doesn't deserve the Pulitzer" is one thing. Comparisons to SMeyer? That just seems like anon has an enormous axe to grind.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-04 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree with everything you've said.
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[personal profile] stainless 2012-10-04 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought the story was pretty impressive, personally. Generally I find stuff published in The New Yorker to be unbearably pretentious tripe. Brokeback seemed like an attempt to capture a little bit of the soul of a region and community and its outsiders, and I liked that about it.

I could see how the dialect could be annoying, but that's a stylistic choice, not a sign of a hack. And maybe I never paid enough attention to Twilight but I didn't get the feeling SMeyer was trying to capture the soul of a region the way Proulx was, so they really don't seem comparable at all even if Proulx is a bad writer. (Which maybe she is; I liked Brokeback but it may be unusually good. Or her other stories may be so stylistically indistinguishable from it that once you've read one, you've read them all.)

(Anonymous) 2012-10-04 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Protip: You might be taken more seriously if you bothered to spell her first name right.