Nobel Prize in literature goes to...

[Scout26]

In all seriousness, there are many Dylan songs I love, Lay Lady Lay, Subterranean Homesick Blues (just because), You Got To Serve Somebody, All Along The Watchtower, Rainy Day Women, Like A Rolling Stone, Blowin In The Wind, Just Like A Woman, Mr. Tambourine Man, It Ain't Me Babe, Highway 61, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)...

Most of which were borrowed by of other artists and turned into listenable music...

[zxcvbob]

The times, they are a-changing...   (I can't believe nobody said that yet)   

[Perd Hapley]

I had to go all the way back to 1970 on that list to find an author that I even heard of, let alone read.

You've not heard of William Golding (1983), or read Lord of the Flies?

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/10/22/nobel-academy-member-calls-bob-dylans-silence-arrogant/92583586/

Dylan has not discussed the honor publicly nor indicated whether he intends to attend the Dec. 10 ceremony in Stockholm. And as of Friday, all mentions the Nobel Prize had been scrubbed from his official website....Dylan's attitude may be explained by lyrics from his 1981 song The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar: “Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery. Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery.”

[RoadKingLarry]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/10/22/nobel-academy-member-calls-bob-dylans-silence-arrogant/92583586/

Having previously been entirely neutral on Bob Dylan, neither liking, disliking or caring at all, I now find myself cheering for him.

[Monkeyleg]

Dylan's always been that way.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I wonder how much they were harassing about accepting him before his people told them to sod off.

and I almost wonder now if they didn't just give it to him to draw attention to the prize and are just using him for publicity. The pissy attitude they have about him not responding to them is kind of telling.  Which, in my book, is really an ahole move. I don't know much about Dylan, but he's always struck me as the more oblivious artist type. As in, unless he can use it for a song or his art, he really has no care about anything else. The artist version of the absent minded professor, if you will. That type isn't going to be all that interested in an award nor very happy about being center of attention unless he's only expected to sing a few songs.

[Perd Hapley]

Just because:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qaym4_bob-dylan-johnny-cash-girl-from-the-north-country_music

[Viking]

I wonder how much they were harassing about accepting him before his people told them to sod off.

and I almost wonder now if they didn't just give it to him to draw attention to the prize and are just using him for publicity. The pissy attitude they have about him not responding to them is kind of telling.  Which, in my book, is really an *expletive deleted*hole move. I don't know much about Dylan, but he's always struck me as the more oblivious artist type. As in, unless he can use it for a song or his art, he really has no care about anything else. The artist version of the absent minded professor, if you will. That type isn't going to be all that interested in an award nor very happy about being center of attention unless he's only expected to sing a few songs.

This is almost certainly the reason, just like the reason why the Norwegians gave the Peace Prize to Obama - they wanted a chance to meet him, and to get more publicity for the Prize.

[HeroHog]

https://youtu.be/UWPbKiALSHY

[dm1333]

In all seriousness, there are many Dylan songs I love, Lay Lady Lay, Subterranean Homesick Blues (just because), You Got To Serve Somebody, All Along The Watchtower, Rainy Day Women, Like A Rolling Stone, Blowin In The Wind, Just Like A Woman, Mr. Tambourine Man, It Ain't Me Babe, Highway 61, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)...

Good list but you left one out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM

[HeroHog]

Good list but you left one out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM

You are so right!

[dm1333]

You are so right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vuUe1_LVk

One of my favorites.  Mellencamp's backup singers rock!

[Tuco]

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.

Means more to me than anything Saul Bellow ever wrote.