I don’t think I’ve ever really enjoyed an Oscar-intent movie 🤔
Or any of the few Michelin star restaurants I’ve earned at…🤔🤔
There’s a whole study-for-the-test vibe to such offerings
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Or award-winning books now that I think of it, including Nobel
Once an award actually becomes worth winning the candidates seem to start sucking in a specific formulaic way
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idk I've read a lot of pretty terrific award winning books, Saul Bellow won the Nobel and Henderson the Rain King was a triumph
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I know what you mean. Real art can only rise from what is truly raw & organic. Things that rise from that place are challenging, weird, and generally don’t have mass appeal
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Hmm not where I was going… I mostly only lie mass appeal Middle brow things 🤣
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I wasn’t crazy about Siddhartha by Hesse and Lord of the Flies doesn’t stand up super well but otherwise, I don’t think I’ve read a book by a Nobel Prize winner I didn’t like, but that wasn’t why I picked those books. That includes:
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Rabindranath Tagore
WB Yeats
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Toni Morrison
Kazuo Ishiguro
VS Naipaul.
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The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel, and is great. Very simple. Good to re-read. Maybe give it a try.






