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>"I only read the classics!"
>"Nothing worth reading was published after 1950."
>"Postmodern literature? Sorry, I don't read children's books."
>"Aristophenes is my favourite comedian."

>> No.11003980

>>11003973
literally me tbqh

>> No.11003989

>>11003973
On the Road was published in 1957. It's been a non stop degenerate shitshow ever since.

>> No.11003997

>implying there's been any innovation since the Wake

>> No.11004009

>>11003973
How many people, and to amplify that, who are taken seriously, actually hold these ideas though?
This seems much more like some manufactured thought, exchange, or person you've made to justify snarkily attacking them to seem witty than an actual thing in reality, even if it does exist.

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>>11003973

>"Nothing worth reading was published after 1950."

Mccarthy, Burgess, Houellebecq and many more...

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>>11003973
Who here has the 100 greatest books ever written by Easton press? Looks pretty good.

https://www.eastonpress.com/prod/C33/0001/GREATEST-BOOKS-EVER-WRITTEN

>> No.11004179

>>11003973
>Aristophenes
Aristophanes you pleb.

>> No.11004183

>>11003989
Salinger didn't write his best work until the 60s.

>> No.11004184

>reading anything after Chaucer
Lel

>> No.11004188

Aristophanes was a hack. Kept recycling the same jokes.

>> No.11004191

>>11003973
who is the hand and who is the talk in this hypothetical conversation?

>> No.11004196

>>11004183
literally who

>> No.11004201

>>11003973
This is mostly true. It's ludicrous to waste time on contemporary lit rather than taking stroll through the ages and taking your picks. Canon exists for a reason.

>> No.11004211

>>11004196
literally (you)

>> No.11004223

>>11003973
Well, any work that literally revisits issues that were explored/addressed better decades, centuries, or even millennia ago really should fucking justify its existence.

>> No.11004240

>>11003997
>innovation
romantics can fuck off

>> No.11004255

>>11004031
Almost all of the books there are shit.

>Ivanhoe
really mate

>> No.11004262

What are recently published book that don't suck?

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>>11004262

>> No.11004335

>>11004262
Train Dreams

>> No.11004368

>>11003989
And Blood Meridian in 1985. It's pretty good.

>> No.11004500

>>11004255
Brainlet spotted

>> No.11004505

>>11004031
i have the whole collection. it's pretty good. books are beautiful, too.

>> No.11004528

>>11004500
screen went dark for you?

>> No.11004554

>>11003989
>On the Road
lol literally?