If Conor Oberst were a novelist who do you think he would resemble style wise?
Conor Oberst the singer songwriter of Bright Eyes as writer would probably be most like? (name author and book titles)
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The first time I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, I was also listening to Bright Eyes’ Collection of Songs (the album he recorded from the ages of about 13 to 16, I think) and I was seriously convinced that ‘Stephen Chbosky’ was just Conor’s pen-name.
That was years ago, but I flipped through the book recently and it still holds true.
@boxer3 Oh no no…Not to be rude, But Conor isn’t even close to Bukowski. That’s an entirely different life form. The differences are far greater than any small similarities. They are each exceptional (As a lyricist is a type of writer actually, although not a novelist).
I would even compare him to Kerouac or Burroughs before Bukowski.
Example:
Double Rainbow
By: James Galvin.
“Well aren’t you the harsh necessity,
As in what fear is for?
It was the summer of…
you should have been there.
Though the last thing I want
anywhere near me is you
Louche and thaumaturigic
you made my faith
my foolishness.
Easy as lying to trees
Essence of the inessential
Is what you are. Double Rainbow
Extrinsic as blood is to the stars
An Empire not of death
but inspired by
Farrago of arid precepts
a few chep ideas about hope
The eschaton alterity
All featuring you.
WHat are the chances?
slim to none
But listen here my fraud, my forgery
I could close my eyes at any time
all I have to do is close my eyes.
Now that could be an Oberst Lyric!
*And Galvin IS a novelist as well as a poet for the record so it counts.
I kind of think him to be like J.D. Salinger, for his typically well known, The Catcher in the Rye, just how he seems to fight everything about the societal norms.
That’s a good one! I love Salinger too… and they are quite similar, but Salinger was a different man… Similar writer.
“Ill exquisite day you, buddy, if you don’t get down off that bag this minute and I mean it.”
From: For Esme with love and Squalor. J.D. Salinger
@GabrielsLamb I’m need of some good reads, got any recommendations? I’ve run out of Fluther questions.
Sure honey… I read just about everything. What sort of thing do you enjoy?
Sci-Fi
Horror
Science?
Romance era anything?
Mostly I read science periodicals, journals and books, poetry and classic literature.
Just tell me what you lean toward and I can get you to some great stuff.
@dreamwolf ohh you’re right on that one too (J.D. Salinger.) Definitely.
The first thing I thought of was the beginning of Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (“can i get a goddamn timpani roll? to start this goddamn song? here’s the goddamn song for all you goddamn people”)
@GabrielsLamb , hahaha I actually don’t disagree with you. I was just thinking who likes to get drunk.
@boxer3 He writes too many rehab songs… Don’t be such a quitter Conor!
Bukowski was a blithering heathen drunken fu*k and he was proud of it…
He had no need to cleanse anything… not even his hookers.
ROFLMAO!
@boxer3 Hee Hee. *Smiles big and perdy… If you can’t make fun of yourself, it’s actually no fun making fun of anyone else either… and I personally enjoy that too much to sacrifice.
LOL
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