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My mum said that Dan Brown was a good author.

She also mentioned that Dickens was rubbish, and Ayn Rand was the biggest piece of Bull she has ever read.

>> No.1126141

Your Mum

>> No.1126143

Your mum might like Twilight too in that case.
Probably lines up in the Twilight Mum's line too.

>> No.1126145

Is your mother Harold Bloom, E.D. Hirsch, Walter Benjamin, Gadamer, Iser or anyone else who has attempted to say something worthwhile about literature mogwai?

>> No.1126149

>>1126145
My mom is Hitler

>> No.1126156

>>1126149
Well Paul De Man was a nazi so that doesn't rule her out

>> No.1126159

>Dan Brown was a good author
>Dan Brown
>Good author.

you lost me.

>> No.1126164

Dan Brown is a hack.

Dickens was the Stephen King of his time. Ayn Rand was a speedfreak.

Your mum is a whore.

Does that about clear everything up?

>> No.1126165

>>1126156
Oh.. sure. And so were like Heidegger and Leni Riefenstahl and HITLER

>> No.1126166

>>1126159
>his name is dan brown

>good author

>PICK ONE.

that's how you do it.

>> No.1126169

Dickens WAS rubbish. Have you ever read him?

>> No.1126168

>>1126164
Except Dickens is actually a great and insightful writer while Stephen King is just Stephen King

>> No.1126170

Your mum has shitty taste.

/thread

>> No.1126172

Hitler loved painting and dogs. Sounds like a great man

>> No.1126173

Well, my mom reads Particia Cornwell, Sujata Massey, Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes. And she wants me to read them too.

She also thinks nonfiction is bullshit and doesn't develop you as a person in any way. My father, on the other hand, never reads fiction.

I can't believe both of them have gradutated from university.

>> No.1126176

>>1126168

“I wish I were a commander in chief in India. The first thing I would do to strike that Oriental Race with amazement… I should do my utmost to exterminate the race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested… with… merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the Earth“ -Charles Dickens (emphasis on DICK)

>great and insightful writer
racist imperialist pig writers should be given the lethal injection discuss

>> No.1126178

>>1126176
But Dickens wrote about poor people

>> No.1126184

>>1126178
>>1126178

IIRC he was also the first person to mention a fish and chip shop in one of his books, a good few years before they were invented.

>> No.1126185

>>1126178
Indians are poor my argument still stands mais oui?

>> No.1126192

>>1126185
Well sure, but I personally think we should nuke North Korea too

>> No.1126191

>>1126185
what do the dots in teh quote signify, do you have a link to the full quote?

>> No.1126194

>>1126191
they signify a section of the quote not relevant, e.g. he only wanted the first and last parts as the rest is rambling some crap or w/e

>> No.1126197

>>1126194
things can change a lot when you leave some parts out, i know its pretty hard to see the quote as not being racist to the core but i'd just like to see the entire thing

>> No.1126198

Do people actually care that Dickens might have been racist or what

>> No.1126203

>>1126198
in regard to his person i'd say yes because it's a douchebag move to be racist. when thinking about his work i'd say no because i dont think his work is racist (not to sure about this because i only read some of his work) and its fun to read at times when you are feeling like reading dickens because its fun and im having fun and im happy.

>> No.1126206

Your mum is 1/3 right.

>> No.1126213

>>1126206
Your mom is one turd.

>> No.1126225

>>1126198
>>1126203
Seriously? Pretty much everyone was an Imperialist Rascist asshat back then. It was just how people thought. It was the motherfucking Victorian Era. Hell, he died only like 6 years after the American Civil war if that gives you a point of reference. Also, slavery in Britain wasn't abolished until 1833, which was during Dicken's lifetime.

>> No.1126229

I haven't read anything anybody said because it`s tl'dr.

>> No.1126234

>>1126229
this, but replace anything anybody with mogwai posts and tl;dr with smelly turds

>> No.1126262

>>1126197
>>1126197

no it's not that, he keeps all relevant parts in, just takes out stuff not related to it, the "..." there could have been Dickens referring to something else entirely, before coming back to his original point.

>> No.1126266

>>1126198
Lovecraft was racist, Conrad was racist. You need to learn that sometimes it doesn't fucking matter. Some work can stand on it's own as a must-read regardless of the author's views.

>> No.1126314

>>1126225

this

no reason to start hating writers from this period for being racist. It's not an excuse because they were still buttfucks for thinking it, but whatever.

If anything you should just admire the fuck out of the people who spoke out against imperialism/colonialism during the Victorian Era

>> No.1126317

>>1126314
i understand that it was normal to think others were inferior in that time but what dickens basically said was that he wanted to wipe them out, for me that sounds liek he took it to the next level racism 2.0

>> No.1126320

>>1126317

that's true. I never liked his books anyway so it doesn't bother me, but yeah I'm guessing a lot of people during that period wouldn't have complained. They were srsbzns with that white man's burden shit

>> No.1126321

>>1126320

actually white man's burden shit contradicts Dickens' desire to kill them all. but you know what I mean

>> No.1126351

or, maybe you're still not as good as the greats, even though they were racist and you claim you are not (though you most certainly are).

>> No.1126353

sounds like your mom has extremist opinions.

we should let her run a country

>> No.1126361

>>1126139
There comes a time when all the "big people" in your life are suddenly revealed for the plain idiot they are; however, by that point you're supposed to respect them regardless of the disillusionment.

>> No.1126421
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1126421

you can't really compare dan brown to charles dickens.

dan brown is essentially a writer of nonfiction. his novels are research papers in history and art history, but he markets them as fiction and inserts a protagonist so that they'll sell.

the da vinci code is as reliable a work of art history as any college textbook.