MatthewJAndy's WEbook Profile

MatthewJAndy

Join Date: 10/18/2008

About me:
I want to be admired, sought after, smothered.
I want to be criticized, marginalized, cursed at, hated.
I want to be recognized, glorified, smiled upon, one of the God's.
I want to be a Writer.
My claim to fame: Criticism

Regarding Fenimore Cooper's "Deer Slayer"
Critique by Mark Twain:

"A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are -- oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language.

Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that."

What I like to read:

Fiction: Humor/Satire, Literary, Political

Non-Fiction: Humor, Politics & Current Affairs, Reference
Favorite books:
1984, Animal Farm, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, Ham on Rye, Women, High Fidelity, A Long Way Down, The Great Gatzby, Slaughter House-Five, The Catcher in the Rye, The Old Man and the Sea, Breakfast of Champions, The Brothers Karmazov, Hunger, Ask the Dust, The End of Faith, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Journey to the End of the Night, The Stranger, Lullaby, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
What I'm reading now:
The Portrait of Dorian Gray, A lot of Bukowski, Ordered Lolita.
Favorite place to read:
My other writing:
As of now, I mostly am trying to perfect short stories and poetry. Also pop culture analysis (article), and will inevitably try a novel.
What I like to write:

Fiction: Humor/Satire, Literary

Non-Fiction: Humor, Reference
Character I'd like to be for a day:
Henry Chinaski
Favorite authors:
Hemingway, Celine, Camus, Orwell, Hornby, Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, Twain, Hamsun, Wilde, Closterman, and Bukowski.