Pure hollywood and other stories5/28/2023 ![]() They were all a bit dreary in atmosphere (I found that to be fine if that's the mood she was going for) and very unfinished. ![]() All of the stories seemed incomplete and covered in a blanket of gray soot. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” I’m confident that this is not what you’ll find in Schutt’s Pure Hollywood. ![]() It was as if the author, Christine Schutt, had her trusty Word thesaurus immediately on hand, ready to whip out at any moment to form absurd sentences instead of creating readable literature-as if her way of being “creative” was to write so evasively and nonsensically as to confuse the reader into thinking, “Damn, this MUST be the newest form of erudite art I’ve got to HAVE it!” purely (sure, why not?-pun intended) because they don’t get it at all.Īs many readers and writers know, Ernest Hemingway is famously quoted as saying: “If a writer knows enough about what he is writing, he may omit things that he knows, and the reader … will feel those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. There were moments, mostly at the start of the collection, where overwrought prose ran rampant in a way that made no sense whatsoever. Pure Hollywood proved to be a collection plagued by a wide spectrum of dullness. ![]()
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