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13656517 No.13656517 [Reply] [Original]

Was this guy really a classic author? It was more like Jerry Seinfeld wrote some books and everyone said he was classic because he was really fun outside of his books.

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, add nothing to childrens lit. Teach them to con kids into painting a fence for you, say n-bombs, ride in riverboats, what kid can even identify with this messed up lifestyle? Who even needs the stupid controversy when these books are so irrelevant?

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is pretty good but hasn't time travel been done so much better?

Eve's Diary is Christian pandering crap. I don't know is he classic or not /lit/?

>> No.13656620

>>13656517
american literature outside of new england/new york is all trash. and anything written in california should be banned

>> No.13656686

Was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court the first 異世界 (isekai) fic?

>> No.13656695

>>13656517
Try his Joan of Arc.

>> No.13656912

>>13656695
>writes slice of life
>writes isekai
>writes about Joan of Arc
Was this guy the light novel writer of his day?

>> No.13657774

>>13656517
I enjoyed the Gilded Age well enough

>> No.13657781

>>13656517
>Teach them to con kids into painting a fence for you
Does it though? That never would have worked in reality. Mark twain was a boomer.

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>>13656620
>Doesn’t like the southern writers
>Doesn’t like Le Guin

That’s nice, dear

>> No.13657828

>>13656695
Didn't care for Twain's work until I read this, it really is his magnum opus. Huck Finn and Connecticut Yankee just felt so pathetically cynical.
That said, they're much better than OP implies with his blatant mischharacterization of Sawyer and Finn.

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>> No.13658136

>>13656517
>n-bombs
People afraid of words on /lit/. It's all so tiresome...
>what kid can even identify with this messed up lifestyle?
If you go that route, every adventure/fantasy story is "messed up". To clutch your pearls over it is a sign of your own neuroticism, not of the capacity of the story to "scar" kids.
>books are so irrelevant?
Art is either good or bad. Relevancy is only something that's harped on about these days, by people who are desperately trying to politicize it. Which to me, is disgusting.