WWTBAM Bored

Over the past few years, I have been on a mission to read every winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Fiction. This is in addition to the other books I read for pleasure.

I finished The Story by T.S. Stribling this morning which was the last Pulitzer winner I had left to read. I own copies of all of those books, and the full collection had outgrown my book case. So I will be buying a bigger bookcase soon...

Impressive.

If there's a Pulitzer Prize category on Jeopardy, you'll clean up.

Congratulations.

Nice! Congrats!

I admire your tenacity/accomplishment. I tried picking from pulitzers awhile back and can't remember which two I tried to read, but they were gahhhhh. I have read several that were fine. Curious, what's your fave?

Well done! I've sometimes thought of doing this ... but then I'd be forced to read Norman Mailer.

I hate that guy.

franktangredi wrote:Well done! I've sometimes thought of doing this ... but then I'd be forced to read Norman Mailer.

I hate that guy.

I remember liking The Naked and the Dead way back. And now realize The Executioners Song won the Pulitzer.
What to do. What to do. He was a creep.

Very impressive!

Beebs52 wrote:I admire your tenacity/accomplishment. I tried picking from pulitzers awhile back and can't remember which two I tried to read, but they were gahhhhh. I have read several that were fine. Curious, what's your fave?

Lonesome Dove is the book that started me on the quest, so it would have to remain at the top for me. Most of the well-known books to have won the prize were great: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, Gone with the Wind, The Caine Mutiny. One of the lesser known ones (at least, I didn't know much about it) that really impressed me was The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau.

franktangredi wrote:Well done! I've sometimes thought of doing this ... but then I'd be forced to read Norman Mailer.

I hate that guy.

The Executioner's Song was one of the more unusual books to have won. And it was excessively long. I would even question its status as "fiction".

franktangredi wrote:
I hate that guy.

By the way, I couldn't help but read this in the voice of Gru from Despicable Me.

danielh41 wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:I admire your tenacity/accomplishment. I tried picking from pulitzers awhile back and can't remember which two I tried to read, but they were gahhhhh. I have read several that were fine. Curious, what's your fave?

Lonesome Dove is the book that started me on the quest, so it would have to remain at the top for me. Most of the well-known books to have won the prize were great: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, Gone with the Wind, The Caine Mutiny. One of the lesser known ones (at least, I didn't know much about it) that really impressed me was The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau.

Thanks. I'll look for Grau. At one point think I read GWTW five times. To Kill a Mock yes and Caine Mutiny both great. For some reason I never liked Hemingway.

Beebs52 wrote:For some reason I never liked Hemingway.

Prolly cause you were forced to read it in school? You seem like you may have been rebellious in your youth!

Estonut wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:For some reason I never liked Hemingway.

Prolly cause you were forced to read it in school? You seem like you may have been rebellious in your youth!

I was a bore, actually. Read a bunch since I can remember, but he just struck me as clinical, with no something or other. Now that's a professional literary criticism...

Also, my junior year I did my English research report on Faulkner?!? Doesn't make sense, right? Plus couldn't tell you more than minimal crud on him now.

Also, and I'll shut up already, I asked for Joyce's Ulysses as a birthday gift back then, fancying myself intellectual, and never got past first few chapters. Realize not Pulitzer, but just another failed effort on my part.

One more, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries or Diary. What did you think? Read it on a Kodak trip way back in 90s. Cried.

Beebs52 wrote:One more, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries or Diary. What did you think? Read it on a Kodak trip way back in 90s. Cried.

I liked it, but it wasn't my favorite. I gave it three stars on my Goodreads page, but I didn't write a review. According to Goodreads, I finished it in September 2016.

danielh41 wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:One more, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries or Diary. What did you think? Read it on a Kodak trip way back in 90s. Cried.

I liked it, but it wasn't my favorite. I gave it three stars on my Goodreads page, but I didn't write a review. According to Goodreads, I finished it in September 2016.

She wrote a 2 sided book Happenstance that was pretty good.