Yes, agree, what’s up with that? But I confess I didn’t really like his books either :) Self absorbed, shallow characters, a little boring… not for me. I’ll admit he can put some beautiful sentences together though. I only picked them up because one of my absolute favourite authors, Garth Greenwell, was loving them but… no (and then again GG also said A Little Life was ‘the great gay American novel’ or something like that and I can’t express how much I hated that one, lol, so maybe I’ll should get my recs from elsewhere). All that said: I know many people like BT and love his writing, so to each their own, I suppose.
Yes, agree, what’s up with that? But I confess I didn’t really like his books either :) Self absorbed, shallow characters, a little boring… not for me. I’ll admit he can put some beautiful sentences together though. I only picked them up because one of my absolute favourite authors, Garth Greenwell, was loving them but… no (and then again GG also said A Little Life was ‘the great gay American novel’ or something like that and I can’t express how much I hated that one, lol, so maybe I’ll should get my recs from elsewhere). All that said: I know many people like BT and love his writing, so to each their own, I suppose.