DontHate

Jane Austen is so f'ing hilarious! I find her super entertaining. She's like an olden-timey Seinfeld or something. It's a shame that you guys don't get that from her the way I do.

I just found out that if you're fully sponsored, they GUARANTEE your admission to the program. Guys, talk to your schools about sponsoring you! It looks like a good bit of free fun.

I've got to say, I can understand people who find James painfully boring, but I think if you focus on the plot you're missing the point. He is all about psychological weirdness, plot has very little to do with it.

I have a lot trouble figuring out your Hemingway acronyms, lisajay. I guess that just makes me not a very Internet-savvy Hemingway scholar? In any case, I can explain how and why Diaz is a hack, ANY DAY. This is an absolutely true fact.

Taste cannot be bad, that's the whole point of taste. It just is what it is. The problem with Zadie Smith, for me, is similar to the problem with Junot Diaz (though I think Smith is a far superior prose stylist). She got a lot of praise for her ethnic background, at the expense of the structure of her plots. Her plots are a total mess. The ending of White Teeth was completely awful and sloppy and rushed.

I posted the most, and also in my humble opinion I AM THE BEST EVERRRRRR

Btdubs, you guys, I'm the top poster for December. I am so proud of myself right now, it's hard to even breathe properly. I'm hyperventilating with pride.

It all depends on how well you can channel your hatred into prose criticism.

Score! First month on here and I'm the top poster! I am so prolific, I should become the next Stephen King.

Supposedly Junot Diaz hits on anything that moves. Maybe she was into that?

She knows how to kill. We can use her...

I think you should stop asking bluecheese to defend an opinion that you obviously don't agree with. The point of this thread is just to vent about various things we don't like. Everyone has different tastes.

It feels more like a rom-com to me!

Hey hey, let's be careful not to judge someone's WORK based on how they VOTED. Two very separate things, in my mind.

From what I hear, Diaz is also a jerk in person. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, LET'S BURN HIM

I feel like this could quickly become a Downton Abbey flamewar

I kind of agree. I like having read Heidegger, and thinking about his ideas, but I hate the actual process of reading him. He's a parody of himself. Gunter Grass does a good job mocking him.

Well I don't disagree with you. I personally have no faith at all in my writing sample, I don't even know what that would feel like. Maybe if it had won an award or something, I'd feel like it was "killer." Short of that, getting an A on a paper seems pretty meaningless. I don't know what makes a sample good anyway.

It will be a more entertaining discussion if you explain why you hate whoever you hate.

I think letters can be called "amazing" based on WHO is writing them, and what kind of relationship you have with that person. If you're tight with a professor, you can be fairly sure what the tone of the letter will be.

I personally have a passionate distaste for Junot Diaz (what a misogynistic, sloppy, one-note hack), and he seems to appear on every f'ing world literature syllabus nowadays.

you crack me up and I love you

I know my recommenders wrote nice things, but I don't know if any of those things are true.

I think they're 100% familiar with it.