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Anonymous Thu Oct 26 22:12:38 2017 No.10194902 [Reply] [Original]

What novels challenge Moby Dick for the title of best English language novel?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 22:17:53 2017 No.10194922 some books not about a stupid whale probably

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 23:31:51 2017 No.10195184 >>10194902 Tristram Shandy

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 23:32:30 2017 No.10195188 >>10194902 Middlemarch

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 23:32:41 2017 No.10195191 File: 42 KB, 284x410, EastOfEden.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10194902 Timshels your path

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 07:07:20 2017 No.10196187 >>10194922 This, but unironically.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 07:09:11 2017 No.10196192 >>10194902 The Recognitions

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 07:20:13 2017 No.10196210 File: 22 KB, 294x475, middlemarch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10195188 Yep

Anonymous Fri Oct 27 07:31:22 2017 No.10196229
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>>10195191

Wanted to like East of Eden, but something felt so forced about it. I get that Steinbeck wasn't trying to be subtle with the Bible allusions, but it still didn't ring true. Still a good story overall, but certain elements brought it down. The uber-wise Chinaman was painfully a hamfisted character, and the autistically evil female character was likewise unbelievable. This book hasn't a patch on grapes of wrath

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 07:33:37 2017 No.10196233 >>10194902 Lord of the Rings.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 09:25:14 2017 No.10196486 >>10194902 Anything with decent female characters. A book that excludes half the human race is only half a book

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 09:35:04 2017 No.10196508 Paradise Lost soars above this garbage

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 10:15:09 2017 No.10196613 >>10194902 uleessis

>>	saucy Fri Oct 27 10:16:09 2017 No.10196617 american literature doesn't even change the opinion of other countries so it's probably something british

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 10:20:17 2017 No.10196626 >>10196486 > men with tits are decent female characters Nigger, pls.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 11:02:12 2017 No.10196738 >>10196508 >novel

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 11:44:06 2017 No.10196916 >>10196486 b8

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 12:02:48 2017 No.10196999 >>10194902 Robinson Crusoe, only because it's the first one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 12:04:01 2017 No.10197005 File: 377 KB, 500x775, 1485612641225.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10194902 Pic related.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 12:05:12 2017 No.10197015 >>10194902 infinite jest

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 12:11:47 2017 No.10197032 >>10197015 This, but unironically

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 13:16:51 2017 No.10197278 >>10197032 The original post was unironic to begin with

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 13:35:37 2017 No.10197332 >>10196192 got to bed, Steven Moore

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 13:41:34 2017 No.10197351 >>10196486 It has a fat white whale with piercings though

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 13:41:58 2017 No.10197352 >>10197032 >>10197278 Is this New Sincerity in action?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 16:23:12 2017 No.10197851 >Nobody says Finnegans Wake >Realize nobody on lit has actually read it Mr. Funn, you're going to be fined again!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 16:23:39 2017 No.10197852 File: 19 KB, 491x488, 1497677170476.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10197351

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 16:26:14 2017 No.10197863 >>10197851 brainlets itt >mr. finn, you're going to be mr. finn-again

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 16:42:36 2017 No.10197911 >>10197851 >>10197863 how are you gonna spend all that time reading it and not realize it's a poem? you guys are the real brainlets, the sorrors of sexton

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 17:10:02 2017 No.10197982 >>10196999 yeah i'd actually have to agree here also >czeched

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