In "Milestones of the New Generation," author Kao Tien-sheng wrote: "Sung Tse-lai is more ambitious in his depiction of Taiwanese villages in transition, of the poverty and gamut of emotions of rural people, than any other writer of fiction in the history of Taiwanese letters. His Daniunan Cun series is likewise the most vivid and deep fictional portrait of the problems of rural villages in literary history.
作家高天生在〈新生代的里程碑〉中寫道：「宋澤萊是台灣文學有史以來，最有計畫去描寫變遷中的台灣農村，反映農人的喜怒哀樂及困頓的小說家，而其『打牛湳村』系列，也是文學史上表現農村問題最生動且深入的小說。