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Thoughts?

>> No.11030168

>>11030127
No.

>> No.11030221

>>11030127
>all middlebrow fiction
>no philosophy
>no theology
>no history

>> No.11030270

>>11030221
but anon, everyone knows that The killer Angels (the civil war trilogy #2), the crack-up by f scott fitzgerald, and affliction by russell banks are more worth your time than anything the greeks ever put out

>> No.11030273

>>11030127
too anglo and too shit

>> No.11030298

>>11030221

what would be an example of highbrow fiction then?

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>>11030298
If you have to ask...

>> No.11030516

>>11030298
The Fault in Our Stars

>> No.11030610

>>11030127
>shitty fiction only known because americans are forced to read a curriculum of american authors, thus mistaking bad for good

>> No.11031680

>>11030127
>goodreads

>> No.11031687

>>11030221
this

>> No.11031703
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>>11030127
>American Pastoral
>Augie March
>Midnight's Children

>> No.11031799
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>native son

>> No.11031972

>No Monte Cristo
>Boomer books about some black guy that got shot

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>blood meridian
>Lolita
>Heart of darkness