F Scott Fitzgerald

I'd be surprised if you knew what cogent means.

>>9321719

Well, we now know you didn't know what it meant until you googled it before this comment.

>>9321730
That's a cute response.

Can you guys just answer the fucking question

I want to know your thoughts

>>9321770
If I were to tell you I think he's unambitious, but I still hardly ever find more cogent writers than him, will that satisfy you?

>>9321770
I feel like he's a bit underrated on this board to be honest. He has some of the nicest prose out there. I only enjoyed Melville's writing more than his.

>>9321780
Only a little

>>9321719
>>9321730
two men standing on a log over a river, fighting each with Q-tips as their weapons

>>9321814
I was just trying to bait anon into going into depth about what he finds Fitz writes cogently about. Or in what way. Or any comment at all as to why he thinks he's unambitious, tGG seems to me to be very ambitious in particular.

>>9321814
>>9321823

kys

>>9321823
To be clear and concise, don't you have to be quite unambitious? Both halves of his sentence mean pretty much say the same thing. I don't think there is any contradiction. Although, it's not a very interesting opinion.

>>9321782

>he hasn't read Woolf

>>9321835
I did but it just felt like pretentious drivel.

>>9321836

>he hasn't read Melville

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>>9321770
As far as Americans go I'd rather read
Mellvile
Ozick
Updike
Hawthorne
Updike
Bellow (Canadian, but same ballpark)
Carver
F. O'Connor

but Fitzgerald is still good, though maybe not great.

>>9321831
calm down

>>9321843
To even start naming authors you'd rather read implies there are few. There are legitimately hundreds of writers I'd rather read before Fitzgerald.

>>9321836
Can you expand on this? I don't want to say you're a stupid faggot right now.

>>9321823
His prose is very pretty, but what I meant by him being cogent was that his journalistic ability could stand alongside his romantic waxings in a way that didn't distance me from the life being examined, I thought he struck a balance between being totally absorbed in his own head and keenly aware of his surroundings that manifested as very clear, easy to understand storytelling.

>>9321863
Her use of language is very intelligent but fails to really transmit anything profound. She's a good writer, just not such a good thinker.

>>9321851
America has never produced a decent writer. Plenty of good, and even great, prose stylists. But that's where the USA's talent ends. Which also explains why /lit/ retards are so hung up on american literature. You guys mostly care about prose because you are shallow readers. Style over substance. Fags.

>>9321896
>>9321900
Fucking yikes.

Urbane, but when you scratch the surface there's just more surface, if when vaguely existential.