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Anonymous Sat Jun 16 07:04:49 2018 No.11330316 [Reply] [Original]

Is this the only good novel by a black man?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 07:36:10 2018 No.11330385 File: 48 KB, 230x393, F437D94C-7210-403E-9CDD-29D269CE2602.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11330316 >only good novel by a black man >written in english Hmm no, it most definitely isn’t.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 08:25:54 2018 No.11330478 >>11330316 >He never read Dumas

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 08:29:20 2018 No.11330486 >>11330316 Pimp and Trick Baby by Iceberg Slim.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 08:38:15 2018 No.11330504 hemingway was black

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 09:11:10 2018 No.11330575 >>11330316 What about Beloved?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 09:12:55 2018 No.11330578 >>11330316 And it's still shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 09:13:34 2018 No.11330581 >>11330575 I don’t think Morrison has a dong but hey I’ve been wrong about things before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 09:51:45 2018 No.11330648 >>11330316 Desu's diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 10:01:22 2018 No.11330661 >>11330316 >he never read Pushkin

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 10:53:21 2018 No.11330765 >>11330385 Could you tell more about it, Anon, especially about the use of language in the novel. I’ve heard the author uses a lot of metaphors and similes, something I am particularly found off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 16:16:05 2018 No.11331828 I also really love Things Fall Apart.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 20:29:14 2018 No.11332766 >>11330316 I remember liking Bud, Not Buddy as a kid.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 20:37:27 2018 No.11332793 >>11332766 Oh shit, I forgot I read this in middle school

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 20:45:14 2018 No.11332820 File: 41 KB, 315x499, pame.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11330316 This is fucking awesome

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 20:51:48 2018 No.11332840 File: 209 KB, 1200x1200, immanuel-kant-9360144-1-402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11330316 What about The Critique of Pure Reason?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 16 22:34:15 2018 No.11333181 File: 115 KB, 307x475, 7126.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11330316

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:03:20 2018 No.11333589 >>11330316 That's not Song of Solomon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:05:31 2018 No.11333602 >>11330316 The bible was written by a bunch of sand niggers. So was the Quran and the Jew books we're not allowed to read or talk about.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:06:13 2018 No.11333606 >>11332840 >novel >Critique of Pure Reason

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:10:03 2018 No.11333628 File: 36 KB, 218x327, underworld.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11330316

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:10:14 2018 No.11333630 >>11333589 also amazing

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:17:57 2018 No.11333663 >>11330581 >>11333630 Oh man, I keep forgetting Morrison is a woman.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 00:25:33 2018 No.11333695 >>11330316 Idk, how many have you read?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 17 04:23:24 2018 No.11334434 >>11332820 I wasn’t a fan of the writing but the story in My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was crazy fun, it almost felt more like science fiction than a folk tale. Yoruban mythology is fucking wack.