U.S. writers too insular, ignorant

Originally posted by Buzz Meeks
That sounds like Ellroy. Priceless. After reading "My Dark Places" you have to wonder what he's really like.

He looks normal on the outside and has a bazillion great stories to tell, but inside, he's a seething rage of resentments. You know, his mother was murdered when he was quite young, and they never caught the killer. If he weren't such a talented writer, he could have been the greatest talk radio personality ever!

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
So Le Clezio got the prize. Can't say I've ever read him -- have you?

Honestly, i had never even heard of him. Will probably follow the herd and buy one of his books with the label "2008 Nobel Prize Winner" that are bound to flourish in bookshops around the world.

Is that sentence too long? Oh, well.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
He looks normal on the outside and has a bazillion great stories to tell, but inside, he's a seething rage of resentments. You know, his mother was murdered when he was quite young, and they never caught the killer. If he weren't such a talented writer, he could have been the greatest talk radio personality ever!

Nick Cave's favourite author, it is said.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
So Le Clezio got the prize. Can't say I've ever read him -- have you?

I didn't even know he existed at all.

But hey, two thumbs up for the Nobel, because it serves as a delux reading suggestion board.

Le Clèzio it is 🙂