Write like Toni Morrison. Speak like Robert “Sheets” Byrd.
All right, now you've done it. I absolutely love the study of literary style, so now I'm forced to go out and actually read some Toni Morrison.
But fear not. I'll do it at the library. (She won't receive a penny of my money.)
I can't say if Toni's a good writer or not. I can't even figure out what she's saying much of the time, and when I can it doesn't seem that compelling.
But the only reason I can read books by Faulkner is because generations of critics have done all the hard work for me, so I know what's the book's about before I pick it up.
Will Morrison be ranked anything like so highly? Or does it even matter, because that sort of thing belongs to the past?
Of course I'll actually have to READ Toni to get the idea of how she writes, which is probably worse than Bulwer-Lytton.
Where's Snoopy when you need him?
The hype and hyperbole over Morrison is a perfect example of literary snobbism. This book is incomprehensible, therefore, that small group that either understands it [or pretends to] struts and preens and deem themselves to be the arbiters of taste for American literature. "Beloved" is overdone, overused, overwritten, overhyped and is turning a generation of college students into book haters by stuffing this down their throats in English class. If you need me, I'll be reading books with a plotline and a point.
Toni Morrison - America’s Vogon Poet!!