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Anonymous Tue May 17 21:08:19 2016 No.8051900 [Reply] [Original]

thoughts? this writer isn't very well-liked but this seems like a good book so far.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 22:29:15 2016 No.8052325 >>8051900 is it a gay whore on the cover

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 22:42:24 2016 No.8052377 what? who doesn't like Carson McCullers?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 22:43:49 2016 No.8052384 >>8052377 mainly my snooty lit professor who noticed i was reading this and said "i hate that author"

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 22:53:39 2016 No.8052443 >>8052384 you should remind your prof that mccullers has a place on bloom's prestigious western canon

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 22:54:57 2016 No.8052448 >>8052443 and then ask your prof where his place is

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 23:10:56 2016 No.8052533 >>8052443 She's not even in the top 10 among Southern Gothic writers, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 17 23:13:36 2016 No.8052544 >>8052533 Flannery O'Connor and Faulkner are far superior, sure... But who else?

>>	The Sound and the Fury !!KlYr/MIPjaz Wed May 18 00:01:51 2016 No.8052735 >>8052533 There's Faulkner, then O'Connor, then who?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 00:02:33 2016 No.8052737 I thought it was trite but then again all Southern Gothic is rather garbage. She's the worst of the bunch but corncob manlet and cripple girl aren't much better.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 00:03:28 2016 No.8052742 >>8052544 >>8052735 He's a contrarian going to hide thread or memepost because he has nothing. Good luck listing 8 more that are easily better.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 00:29:50 2016 No.8052852 >>8052737 kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 01:30:23 2016 No.8053127 >>8052737 >rather garbage I take great pleasure in knowing you won't see the end of this century.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 01:40:36 2016 No.8053169 File: 54 KB, 460x345, goodadvice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8052443 >>8052448

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 01:51:01 2016 No.8053208 >>8051900 harper lee ripped this off

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 02:18:13 2016 No.8053301 I Only read 'the heart is a lonely hunter' and really enjoyed it. Can someone recommend other works of her?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 02:39:52 2016 No.8053376 >>8051900 I like that cover art style so much. It reminds me of the shelf of paperbacks from the '50 and '60 -- mostly sci-fi -- my father left me.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 02:44:25 2016 No.8053390 What is the "Gothic" in "Southern Gothic" supposed to invoke??

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 02:44:28 2016 No.8053391 >>8053376 Kek your mama reminds me of a whore

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 02:49:11 2016 No.8053404 >>8052384 Remind him he's a lit professor who is only published by small university lit magazines and publishers and the only people that have read his work were maybe the 4 former curious lit students

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 02:51:04 2016 No.8053407 >>8053391 nigger

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 05:54:49 2016 No.8053761 >>8051900 she was an alcoholic so she's okay

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 06:12:45 2016 No.8053786 >>8051900 I thought about reading that but then I found out Carson was actually a woman. After that I decided to ignore her existence.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 06:18:06 2016 No.8053803 >>8053301 Try The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories, it have good reviwes.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 06:19:20 2016 No.8053812 Anybody read The Member of the Wedding or Reflections in a Golden Eye?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 06:52:36 2016 No.8053876 >>8053812 golden eye is good

>>	Anonymous Wed May 18 16:42:27 2016 No.8055601 >>8051900 >naming a mute character "Mr. Singer" 2deep4me