#me reading any contemporary novel praised for its prose: ok but it’s not tender is the night by f scott fitzgerald…….

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

i was also thinking that as i get older i am less automatically impressed by literary prose, partly because i recognize it more and more as a genre of its own and just doing the things it does doesn’t wow me, but then i was trying to remember if i’d ever been in my younger days wowed by a book i wasn’t sure i’d stand by now and the answer is no but i do remember reading various novels and being like “that was ok.” so maybe i have just always been a hater. i do though need publishers to stop choosing blurbs that hype up the language of a book bc it’s like almost guaranteed to make me a little more hostile than i would quite honestly prefer to be.