Look, I know it's not right to trash something before one has actually seen/read/heard/experienced it, but readers of PA know that this bit of ethics flies out the window here when it comes to the quirk. I *still* haven't read Miranda July's Nobody Belongs Here More Than You, but imagine the smirky grin that spread across my face today when I read Prospect's article about over/under-rated things that happened in culture last year. The magazine asked 50 of their writers to list their personal over/under-rated cultural events, and among them was the following:
Jean Hannah Edelstein writer
Overrated
Book: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Canongate). Individually, these stories have a certain quirky charm, but the overall effect was overwrought and monotonous, as if the author was taking you by the shoulders and screaming, “Love me! I’m wildly eccentric!”
Heh. Ms. Edelstein, I'm your new biggest fan.
I've read it! And I thought I quite liked it, even though it was a bit foamingly lascivious by my standards. But to be honest, after encountering Probably Awkward I'm really not so sure. Maybe I just liked the bright yellow cover? My old aesthetics, like your traditional ethics, are flying out the window.
btw, ht, one really shouldn't trash something before one has actually seen/read/heard/experienced it.
Posted by: jb | January 07, 2008 at 06:45 AM
I dunno, I think it is okay to have a hunch.
But this woman disagrees with me: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/12/if_youre_going_to_rubbish_a_bo.html
Posted by: JHE | January 07, 2008 at 04:22 PM