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>> No.1729385

reported

>> No.1729388
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Fix'd so we know where this is coming from next time it comes up. Thanks for participating.

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>>1729388
>Arthur C. Clarke
>Mediocre Tier.
Are you doing this just to piss off /sci/?

>> No.1729430

>Raymond E. Feist

Haters gonna hate.

>> No.1729436

>look at me, I'm building hierarchies

>> No.1729444

This list reeks of "I've read one book by an author and I'm going to rank his/her life's work by it"-ness.

>> No.1729461

Possible the most retarded list I have ever laid eyes on.
>>1729444
Everything he said.

>> No.1729494

The list got some truth to it.

>> No.1729502

Man I fucking love Bret Easton Ellis, but no way in hell would I put him in God tier. I'm a total fanboy, but I'm smart enough and realistic enough to acknowledge his faults.

This list sucks. What is our board's obsession with hierarchies?

>> No.1729503

At least he/ she got the Ayn Rand part right.

>> No.1729515

>Tolkien, Kerouac, and Palahniuk all Mediocre Tier
>Oscar Wilde not Godly Tier
>George Orwell mentioned over Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury
>Stephanie Meyer mentioned, but not J.K. Rowling
>No Terry Goodkind

Good gawd OP, are you even trying?

>> No.1729518

>>1729444
For some. Other mentions--Pynchon, Kafka--reek of must-put-these-in-to-add-some-legitimacy-to-this-even-though-I-haven't-read-fuck-all-by-them-ness.

>> No.1729519

No Murakami and Oscar WIlde is apparently "good".

whatthefuckamireading

>> No.1729521

>>1729519
Haruki Murakami is overrated as fuck. Sex sells, as they say.

>> No.1729523

>>1729502
>What is our board's obsession with hierarchies?

Inferiority complex.

>> No.1729543

>>1729521
whatever dude. jap lit in general has lots more sex than popular american lit. murakami has a strong narrative voice, granted its the same one in nearly all of his works, but it is a strong one. he's well-read and names many great authors as influences.

>> No.1729549

>Madeline L'Engle in HOLY SHIT WHY DID YOU PICK UP A PEN TIER

I'mokaywiththis.avi

>> No.1729601

James Joyce is not on the list. He deserves to be in God Tier at least.

>> No.1729613

>>1729543
But it's too bad they have to blur out all of the penises and vaginae

>> No.1729623

How can i filter all trips using that greasemonkey extension? "!" doesn't work

>> No.1729626

>>1729623
the best way is to lol ur a fggt

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>>1729383

>> No.1729759

I was going to argue bumping Frank up a tier or two, but then I remembered The White Plague. Fuck that guy.

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I prefer mine.

>> No.1729779

>>1729778
>alexander dumas

IT'S ALEXANDRE. that's why you're the only one who prefers your shit.

and flannery o'connor should be top tier. if you rated after only reading a good man is hard to find or some shit you're just wack status, son.

>> No.1729786

>>1729779
i should've said, it's alexandre, dumbass.

that would've been a killer zinger with the dumbass dumas...oh it's too late. damnit!

>> No.1729790

>>1729779

Lol @ correcting people's spelling and grammar on the internet. Is that the best you can do?

Anyway, her short stories are good and sometimes great, but her novels fall short. So I gave her an overall okay rating. What is wrong with this? Her novels had so many boring passages in them, she was obviously better at writing short stories.

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>>1729778
>good tier
>Ayn Rand

>> No.1729799

>>1729383

Such shit taste.

>> No.1729803

>>1729790
hey, i've got to bust your balls every change i get.

and yeah, she was certainly a better short story writer.

please check out, "the barber" "the partridge festival" and especially "everything rises must converge" if you haven't yet. i was mentioning on here the other day how she's great with giving characters distinct voices and providing a variety of perspectives on the same themes throughout several of her short stories. and why it's hard to be familiar with her after only one or two stories imo. give her another chance. she's one of my favorites.

>> No.1729804

>>1729778

>asimov in god tier

No, take your shitty genre love elsewhere.

>> No.1729806

>>1729803
everything THAT rises must converge. i better correct that since i can't have you correcting me.

>> No.1729807

>>1729803

I've read all of her works, every short story and both novels.

>>1729804

Sci-fi isn't that great, but Asimov was. Almost everything he wrote was amazing. I've read the first 3 Foundation books 9 or 10 times.

>> No.1729808

>>1729383
>B.E. Ellis not vapid hack tier

The fuck are you doing, man?

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>>1729807
>I've read all of her works, every short story and both novels.

wait. what? and you still think that of her?

i'm baffled, man.