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Anonymous Wed Dec 8 23:55:38 2021 No.19538638 [Reply] [Original]

Who was the last great writer?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 8 23:58:43 2021 No.19538658 >>19538638 Nabby

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 00:25:37 2021 No.19538759 >>19538638 Me

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 00:48:07 2021 No.19538820 >>19538638 My buddy Eric

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 01:21:56 2021 No.19538902 >>19538638 Nabakov is a good answer

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 02:16:54 2021 No.19539042 Eliot

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 02:19:50 2021 No.19539051 >>19538638 r scott bakker

>>	chuck green, aberdeen Thu Dec 9 02:22:04 2021 No.19539058 File: 57 KB, 388x525, fgardner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19538638 f gardner >verification not required

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 02:29:20 2021 No.19539072 >>19538638 There’s this fanfiction author that’s really good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 05:30:31 2021 No.19539578 File: 61 KB, 376x512, lay off the shakes, peare.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19538638 First and Last and Only

>>	Racist Genius Thu Dec 9 06:12:50 2021 No.19539674 >>19539578 Bugs... rape off the gape, peers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 12:46:21 2021 No.19540947 >>19539072 I know exactly who you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 12:59:04 2021 No.19541002 >>19538638 Are we talking about prose, story, emotion? I think Hollywood has recognized Dennis Lehane as something special.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 14:19:28 2021 No.19541364 The Pringles Man

Anonymous Thu Dec 9 14:23:44 2021 No.19541386

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>>19541364
overrated af. still can't believe /lit/ suckered me into reading that hack. >but muh unreliable narrator! muh prose!
his prose sucks, first of all, second, making your narrator lie isn't compelling if you have nothing meaningful for him to lie about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 14:38:20 2021 No.19541452 >>19538638 I WILL be. Just you watch!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 14:39:29 2021 No.19541461 >>19539072 Who?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 14:46:48 2021 No.19541508 >>19538638 Ligotti, but he's getting up there in years - it's more concerning that there are no NEW ones appearing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 15:22:28 2021 No.19541713 File: 146 KB, 1200x800, REVELATION.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19538638 John the Apostle of Christ, both of his major works are incredible beyond expression.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 15:23:55 2021 No.19541720 >>19538638 "Great" probably someone like Dosto or Tolstoy. "great" I would say Ishiguro is the best right now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 15:34:50 2021 No.19541773 modernists. eliot and yeats

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 15:39:14 2021 No.19541794 Cormac McCarthy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 15:42:09 2021 No.19541802 >>19541794 Suprised this reply came in kind of late, correct answer btw

Anonymous Thu Dec 9 17:06:44 2021 No.19542234
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>>19541386
>overrated af. still can't believe /lit/ suckered me into reading that hack. >but muh unreliable narrator! muh prose!
>his prose sucks, first of all, second, making your narrator lie isn't compelling if you have nothing meaningful for him to lie about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 19:04:47 2021 No.19542873 File: 64 KB, 500x372, tumblr_o1ustcxmIC1rzbthto1_r1_500.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19539072 >>19540947 >>19541461 Big Yud

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 19:07:40 2021 No.19542883 >>19538638 Homer

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 20:22:22 2021 No.19543247 >>19541713 what are the two(both) ?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 20:27:14 2021 No.19543280 Dumas, Hawthorne, or Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 20:27:50 2021 No.19543283 >>19539042 This

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 9 21:49:35 2021 No.19543710 >>19538638 Juan Rulfo

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 01:45:06 2021 No.19544707 >>19543247 Gospel of John and Book of Revelation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 01:47:00 2021 No.19544714 >>19538638 Me after I finished writing my diary desu.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 01:57:26 2021 No.19544746 Tom Wolfe's novels have this sweeping, grand, 19 century feel about them. Read the Bonfire, a Man in Full and My name is. Back to blood is meh though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 02:56:48 2021 No.19544920 >>19541364 Based >>19541386 Filtered

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 03:10:07 2021 No.19544959 >>19538638 Javier Marías

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 03:19:20 2021 No.19544980 >>19538638 Bolaño and David Foster Wallace, obviously

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 04:00:34 2021 No.19545105 File: 26 KB, 340x277, Tolkien.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tolkien

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 09:06:39 2021 No.19545855 >>19544980 what makes them so great?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 09:08:56 2021 No.19545858 >>19544980 DFW wasn't even a good writer, let alone a great one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 09:15:29 2021 No.19545875 >>19538638 Thomas Ligotti, WG Sebald

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 11:29:29 2021 No.19546370 >>19540947 >>19539072 I also know

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 14:52:36 2021 No.19547466 >>19541794 He shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 14:53:33 2021 No.19547476 >>19547466 Better than your favorite aithor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 10 19:07:23 2021 No.19548845 Cormac McCarthy

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