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/lit/ are there any authors you just could not get into no matter how much you wanted to?

For me it's Vladimir Nabokov. I liked the Defense because it was about Chess, but that's about it. I've really tried to enjoy him but I just don't like his prose.

Also Herman Melville, but I never really tried with him.

>> No.1096823

Of course. For me it has to be Cormac McCarthy.

>> No.1096825

hey i gave ayn rand a chance by reading the fountainhead. i was irritated/trolled the whole time i had it open.

>>1096823
boo. i like mccarthy. blood meridian and suttree are monumental works imo.

>>1096818
melville isn't bad at all. i like nabokov's prose when i'm in the mood for it. it's different and really lyrical here and there.

>> No.1096829

>>1096825

You're missing the point of the thread. I never said that either author is "bad".

>> No.1096830

Dostoevsky.

>> No.1096835

Kafka. Human institutions and life are absurd and grotesque. I get it. What's next?

>> No.1096836

>>1096830

I can see it. I love big D though.

On a related note. Kafka. I liked his short stories and I liked his themes and ideas but I hated all of his novels.

>> No.1096840

>>1096830
Stop spelling like a retard. The absolutely proper spelling would be Dostojevski, Dostoyevsky if you're a stickler for English orthography.

I can't read Italo Svevo it seems.

>> No.1096843

>>1096830
I concur. He's just so... dry? I don't know, the prose seemed so lifeless to me.

>> No.1096844

>>1096840

Spell it in Cyrillic or don't at all you cocksucking smore.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

>> No.1096866

>>1096840
dostoevski

dostoyevski
this thread sucks.

>> No.1096873

>>1096843
so you've read him in russian then?

>> No.1096884

>>1096873
Yes. Of course I have.

>> No.1096888

>>1096884

Hasn't everyone?

>> No.1096889

>>1096884
ha. cool. then i should stfu. :)

>> No.1096900

>>1096889

Every minute every second every hour of the day. iyiyi. everytime that i'm away. iyiyi. missing you, missing you. every moment that is stolen it can be replaced. iyiyi. even if it;s for a day. iyiyi. i'm a text you up to say. iyiyi. missing you, missing you.