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Most classic authors are well rated on goodreads, except flaubert. What are they missing on about him?

>> No.12128734

>>12128714
James Joyce called Flaubert the greatest novelist of all time. I'll take Joyce's opinion over anyone on Goodreads.

>> No.12128735

>>12128714
If you very painstakingly and realistically depict human behaviour, the result is usually extremely boring if you don't try to spruce it up a bit.

>> No.12128747

He only wrote one good novel.

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>>12128714
>Oy, the tedium, the drudgery of trying to read this book! I tried to get into this story. Really, I did. It's a classic, right? And everyone else likes it. I kept making myself continue, hoping I could get into the story and figure out what's supposed to be so good about it.
>I won't waste any more of my precious reading time on this. It's about a self-absorbed young wife who longs for anyone else's life except her own. When she's in the city, she dreams of the farm. When she's in the country, she dreams of the city. When she's at a social gathering she imagines that everyone else's life is so much more exciting than her own. Blah, blah, blah.
>Too many wordy descriptions of what people were wearing, what the buildings looked like, etc. If you're going to take a long time to tell a story, it had better be a good story. This one is NOT!

>> No.12128754

>>12128714
nobody wants to read aboat cuckolding.

>> No.12128771

>>12128747
Margarita?

>> No.12128818

>>12128747
One's enough.

>> No.12128853

>>12128714
People skip out on his decadent shit. Salammbo was great. St Anthony was even better.