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thenewgreen  ·  4865 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Until Mencken spoke for it, the reviews were angry and childish..."
caio posted a link a while back that he frames by writing, "Writers, editors and critics share their thoughts on great pieces of canonical literature that, frankly, just aren't all that" http://hubski.com/pub?id=2880

The comment thread turned in to us talking about either books or authors that we can't get in to or think are overrated. The Great Gatsby took some lumps. Anyways it was a great discussion.

It's pretty cool that F. Scott Fitzgerald took the time to write back a fan. You can see he wrote the letter from Paris. Have you seen Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris"? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/movies/midnight-in-paris-a...

Seemed like an intriguing idea for a movie.





kleinbl00  ·  4865 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Have heard of. I gave up on Woody Allen after Love and Death. The statistic I've heard repeated is that 95% of the audience for any given Woody Allen film lives on the Island of Manhattan. I'd believe it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, screenwriter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/us/fitzgerald-as-screenwri...

caio  ·  4861 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Woody Allen movies are, for me, either very good or very bad. Hardly he releases a picture that's just meh. I love Love & Death, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan and Husbands and Wives, but hate Stardust Memories, Shadows and Fog, Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Whatever Works.
thenewgreen  ·  4865 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ha. There's another thread going on right now about "overrated" bands. I'd say Woody Allen would fall in to one of the more overrated writer/director categories. That said, he has written some great stuff in the past and the movie in question has Owen Wilson -ever since he played Dignan in Bottle Rocket, I can't help but like the guy -no matter what piece of crap he's in.

I think I may have to give it a shot. I'd believe the 95%. Lucky for Allen, it's a big EDIT:(population wise) Island.

Thanks for the link. -It's the Barton Fink era, no?

caio  ·  4861 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Could you link that thread about "overrated" bands, NG?
thenewgreen  ·  4861 days ago  ·  link  ·  
thenewgreen  ·  4861 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Sure thing Caio. But I must admit it was really only about 2 bands: Velvet Underground and The Doors.

Someone should start a post about the most overrated bands of all time. That'd be a fun discussion.

You want to initiate?

http://hubski.com/pub?id=7103

caio  ·  4861 days ago  ·  link  ·  
There's this guy called Mikhail Simkin. He's a university professor at University of California. He did a number of studies about fame and how it relates to real achievment. It's involves statistical analysis and I'm not sure what his result mean.

I've been meaning to post about him, but I'm still trying to figure out what he's actually saying.

thenewgreen  ·  4861 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Once you figure it out, I will look forward to reading your post.