/lit/ - Literature

>kek

Balzac's the only one I can think of.

I only read The Shining and I was disappointed with it, to be honest. It was impressive insofar as he... well, that he took the time to write it, basically, but no further. I mean, it's blatantly obvious he'd just put down the book Games People Play before he started writing it and that it's pretty much just a story built around that book. Haven't picked another one of his books up since. I dunno... I found it cheap, I guess.

Gérard de Villiers

Possibly Thomas Bernhard. I've read and liked five of his books, and I know he's written quite a bit more.

>>4846101
Epic patrician detected.

Philip K. Dick.

>all my favourite writers wrote fewer than 10 novels

>>4846091

The man pseudonymically referred to as "Lemony Snicket".

>>4846250
Every man is entitled to his opinion, I guess/

>>4846149
A lot of his good stuff were short stories and novellas

>>4846274
Take the best of his SF novels and the best of his mainstream novels and you'd have 10 easily.

>>4846250
easy and fun read, but i got nothing out of it other then just pure entertainment of guilty pleasure

Terry Pratchett

>>4846315
he said good novels

Does Gene Wolfe have ten good novels? I feel he has at least seven.

>>4846471
I think it depends on how you count the various Book of the _ Sun series. But probably.

Nabokov
Calvino
Mishima
Coupland

>>4846380
Oh fuck off you clearly havent read them

>>4846473
If you count The Book of the New Sun as separate novels, that's four.

Then there's his Wizard Knight novels. That's three, so there's seven overall. Soldier of the Mist takes us to eight.

We need two more.

>>4846486
Oh shit, I forgot that Soldier of the Mist has two sequels.

So that's ten. Wolfe wins.

>>4846293
Well shit you're meant to be reading it when you're a in late-primary school or early-high school

>>4846479
Do you go to boardgame nights?

>>4846091
Zola

>>4846293
Why does having fun make you feel guilty, anon?

>>4847036
Anon might be a Protestant.

Walter Scott.

>>4846527

There isn't anything wrong with board game nights right?

>>4846091
Terry Pratchett.

>>4847036

Not him, but lit isn't a struggle between fun and intellectualism. I think the kind of fun he's talking about in regards to Lemony Snicket is not resonant or memorable fun.

>all this genre fiction

in the words of evola kid, total dibble

le JCO

>>4846091
mccarthy

>>4847703
list 10 mccarthy novels

>>4847709
the orchard keeper
outer dark
child of god
suttree
blood meridian
all the pretty horses
the crossing
cities of the plain
no country for old men
the road

>>4847783
Wow, you even put them in chronological order. You must've read them all.

>>4847783
I second this list, you sir are a king among men.

George R.R. Martin

>>4847783
>The Road

I greatly disliked this book.

>>4848016
uh oh, that leaves 9

Cormac McCarthy

>>4846091
ahahahahahjahahahahhaha

Hesse

>>4846478
>nabokov
no

>>4846091
philip roth

>>4850651
Laughter in the Dark
Ada
Lolita
Pale Fire
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
King, Queen, Knave
Look at the Harlequins
Despair
Glory
The Defense

Easy to name 10 if you actually read.

>>4850656
Really?

>>4846101
>that patrician

Harper Lee

>implying any meaningful discussion could come from this thread

Seriously /lit/. Can we not do this? The whole generating-a-thread-for-the-sole-purpose-of-netting-replies-shtick? And here I thought /lit/ was better than the rest of 4chan

Roald Dahl