/lit/ - Literature

John Green.

there's an interview where davy boy says feminists claim that male authors who write big huge dumb books are imposing their phallus onto the publics consciousness. they're right

>>9271486

Sell me on this book mate

>>9271467
bump

if anyone has read that book im curious about it

>>9271511
the fuck is that grip

>>9271467
bump as well. people often put him in the same group of people as pynchon, gaddis and franzen but i havent actually read any of those authors besides pynchon and i can say the cring of lot 49 is sort of the original broom of the system.

>>9271501

Why are feminists so obsessed with dicks?

Do they secretly crave a good, penetrative, heterosexual fuck?

>>9271511
>hey, take a picture of me holding this book open so people think I is smart
>J-John, don't you at least want to turn it to the middle of the book so people might believe you've read it?

>>9271610
You wouldn't catch a minnow with that bait lad.

is The Pale King worth reading despite being unfinished?

finished IJ recently and I find myself missing the act of sitting down to read some of David's prose every day.

>>9271627
no bait here sir. though i may have just taken your bait.

>>9271650
>no bait here sir
you should have finished your lessons, kid.

>>9271511
>>9271622
yeah i love how he's basically reading the publication page.

>>9271467

>>9271511
I like books that weren't unfinished

>>9271501
Yeah, unless you're an old dude or you were already writing in the 90s then I assume that any white dude's big-ass book is masturbatory. I might read it still, but I go in with this impression for sure.

>>9272403
>The Corrections
>The Instructions
>Correction

These people are snobs.