/lit/ - Literature

>>5574194
I liked him in Freaks and Geeks.

He's said before his favourite book was Blood Meridian

Anyway I wish I could like him and I do like what he tries and wants to be, but he makes it too hard.

>tfw you and Jamie Frank have the same favorite novel
I'm truly embarrassed.
Anyone got any recommendations of things I will like more than Lolita?

>>5574272
gone girl

>>5574194
that beach is filthy
god damn goto a better beach franco

>>5574272
There's no shame in liking Lolita.

Franco's a huge dilettante. He wants to be seen as intelligent, as having inner substance, instead of being a mere 'star' for his looks and luck, but he's really just sticking his hands into as much intellectual work as he has a passing interest in, leveraging his fame to get him further, with no real devotion to anything.

>>5574194
>that ruined cover

>>5574281
if rich people go to shitty beaches where do poorfags go?

>>5574194
i really like him

What's his favorite book not on the beach?

>>5574194
is that a crab buried next to the book?

i wish i was attractive enough to become an actor and do shit movies for money, lots and lots of it, just so i can live the rest of my life not worrying and not doing anything but read and listen to music and run and walk and watch movies and literally do nothing else, except eat ofcourse, id eat a lot, life would be fun

but no... i gotta work my ass off studying things i dont like so i can get a job that requires long work hours doing something i really dont like doing just so i can have a steady income because im too big of a pussy to break my parents heart, they spent a lot of money on me as a kid, and they're expecting a return on their investment so their lives as old people wont suck. i wish i was the only person in my family tree

>>5574322
At least you got dubs :DDD

>>5574281
home

>>5574281
>>5574291
>>5574212
It's obviously satire.

>>5574346
this, it's a joke about him fucking that teenager

TONIGHT ON FRANCO-WATCH:

JIMMY FRANCO VISITS THE BEACH; READS BELOVED NOVEL 'LOLITA'

/LIT/ WATCHES AND COMMENTS

WHO DISLIKES THE AUTEUR/HEARTTHROB'S BIZARRE BEHAVIOR? WHO APPROVES?

FIND OUT RIGHT NOW, IN THIS THREAD, ONLY ON /LIT/, YOUR NUMBER ONE SOURCE FOR JIMMY FRANCO NEWS AND COMMENTARY

>>5574404
>YOUR NUMBER ONE SOURCE FOR JIMMY FRANCO NEWS AND COMMENTARY
I thought that was Vice magazine

>>5574404
I chuckled

>>5574404
underrated

>>5574318

Why would a crab bury itself next to lolita?

Has anyone watched his As I Lay Dying adaptation? Is it as shitty as it sounds?

I used to think Franco was cool but now he just seems like a pretentious fuccboi. What fuccbois are for fashion, he is for the literary community.

Also, 'Freaks and Geeks' is kind of a good show but everyone in it is insufferable. Especially Sam, fuck that kid.

>>5574194
Strand sticker

I don't find Franco very impressive, maybe compared to other actors but who cares if actors read great lit.
>>5574353
was that ever confirmed as a prank/stunt? There's gay rumors but also rumors of him sleeping with tons of undergrads at NYU, etc.

>>5574212
this guy explained it better than i would have
>>5574322
don't we all?

>>5574194
I would think this was an obnoxiously vain, preening thing to do and I'm not even a celebrity.

Also Pale Fire is better

if that's a joke he's a pretty cool bro

>>5574526
it was fine apart from the stupid splitscreen thing he used during like 70% of it

"Would you fuck me, Nietzsche?"
"...Because I'd fuck me."

I wish I could had the chance of doing all the stuff he is allowed to attempt to do. He's decent at most and I'm sure that if we lived in a simpler and more fair society everyone could attempt to create on that variety of terms, making the world a better place to live in.

>>5574303
To work, duh.

>>5574552
The kids are hard to tolerate, but they are more universal than the teens so it evens out. I really hated how I couldn't tell Franco's emotions most of the time, even if he looked the roll he couldn't act shit and dragged what would had a decent series quality into teen soap.

Intelligent, but wants everyone to know it to the point that it's off-putting

sincere taste for the artistic but also chooses to like many things simply because they're deemed something a "smart, artsy" person would like ("patrician")

Nepotistically enrolled in impressive universities out of love of learning when he was rich and connected enough to do so but apparently doesn't put in a considerable amount of work. To some degree he enjoys the idea of being an academic more than he enjoys academia

He would fit in very well here

>>5574475
overrated

>>5574836
if Dane Dehaan is on /tv/, franco is on /lit/

>>5574836
Spot on. Also unfortunately it seems like every artistic effort he makes turns out a mess. No one enjoys his adaptations and he should stop dragging classic books he seems to like through the mud by making them movies. He's the opposite of Midas.

>>5574985
He's the Uwe Boll of faulkner

>>5574404