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*Books that are only good because everyone says they're good

>> No.15968678

>>15968658

Snow Crash sucked.
Hitchhikers guide was gay.

>> No.15968724

>>15968658
Anything that journalists and literati butt buddies claim is "monumental", or a real tour de france, you know, all those buzzwords, and came out after the end of WW2.

>muh pol

Fuck off. Even degenerates forgot how to write when the modern order of the world set in - the contemporary literary scene hasn't even the decency to produce a Gide or a Wilde between all the kiddydiddling like degenerates used to in the past.

>> No.15968729

>>15968724
What book is that?

>> No.15968776

>>15968729
Probably the entire Beat generation (and rightly so)

>> No.15968816
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15968816

Ulysses

>> No.15968841

>>15968658
any "critically acclaimed" book written by a woman or/and "poc" in the last 20 years

>> No.15968845
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15968845

>>15968816
Im afraid ya got filtered buddy

>> No.15968863

>>15968658
The Odyssey. The Stranger.

>> No.15968880

Gravity's Rainbow.
Ulysses.
Infinite Jest.
The Bible.

>> No.15969253

>>15968816
>>15968678
I liked Snow Crash and Ulysses...

>> No.15969471

>>15968841
I liked Kafka on the Shore though

>> No.15969519

>>15968845
No it's objectively bad.

>> No.15970780

>>15968863
The Stranger? Why?

>> No.15970856

>>15970780
Overhyped beyond belief. Pretty average as existential novels go.

>> No.15971050

>>15968816
+1 for Ulysses