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Discuss.

>> No.19845879

>>19845848
Which author should I read? Give your best answer.

>> No.19845887

>>19845848
Reminder that difficult does not mean good or better. Common newbie mistake

>> No.19845910

>>19845848
About level 5, if I need a supplementary essay when reading a book, the author didn't make a good job.
The reason because level 2 is considered peak literature is because being inaccessible isn't a virtue by itself, and often the capacity of an author to flawlessly transmit his ideas is worth much more than whatever other authors have going for them.
I won't disagree on the placement of the authors themselves, because I haven't read many of them so making a comparison would be disingenuous, but I think it's a bad way to classify books.

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>>19845848
fixed

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>>19845879
J.K. Rowling

>> No.19846454

>>19845848
bump

>> No.19846487

Really disappointed I didn't see F Gardner at the bottom, OP. Fix it.

>> No.19846540

>>19845848
Above level 3 is intellectual masturbation, nothing worthy there.
Literature is about humans talking to humans, not about being obscure on purpose to appear more intellectual.

>> No.19846855

>>19845848
Made by a underread newfag
>techniques such as stream of consciousness and metafiction start revealing themselves
Never fails to make me laugh.

>> No.19846884

>>19845848
I like that this person included the never discussed Stephen Dixon.

>>19845879
Kobo Abe

>> No.19847196

>>19846540
Barth is based you pleb

>> No.19847231

>>19845848
Is Woolf really harder than Proust?

>> No.19847251

>>19845848
Said it once i'll say it again. Missing Poe, Fielding, and possibly Stendhal on level 1, and Flaubert on level 2

>> No.19847315

>>19847231
Don't believe the list. Most are thrown wherever simply on impressions and popularity.

>> No.19847431

>>19847231
Yes. this list of a hundred writers made for a meme image was 100% well researched and they definitely didn't get fatigue making it and just start throwing writers wherever the fuck they wanted.
Come on anon. It takes a young person to make a stupid meme like this. You think a 20 year old read all of those authors? Multiple books of their work?
Because I hope you don't think a 50 year old made that image.

>> No.19847440

>>19847231
Arguably more experimental at least. Maybe whoever made the list values that more than everything else

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>>19845848
achingly inaccurate as a comparison between texts, but furthermore the whole concept is horribly flawed.
Probably bait, we should all lurk more.

>> No.19847479

>>19845848
You don't read late Burroughs.

You penetrate him. With an army of parachuting anarcho-communist time travelling twink genre fiction boys attached at their spine to their kit of squash head anti-Tankie armoured piercing MANPADs.

Personally, I ensure that I take copious amounts of Opiates so that I don't become infected with the bisexual time travelling communist virus created by Tibetian suicigasm cultists.

Everything is Permitted: Except for the Permitters.

Anal mucous.