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11509725 No.11509725 [Reply] [Original]

Post authors your dad reads.

>> No.11509734

>>11509725
My dad exclusively reads Clive Clussler type stuff

>> No.11509737
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>>11509725
>tfw hippie dad

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>> No.11509765
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my dad is an unironic summer of love communist.
pic related

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i keep trying to steer him toward marquez

>> No.11509777

Laurence Stern
Tristram shandy is my dad's favorite book

>> No.11509788
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along with biographies and almanacs

his favorite book is puddn'head wilson

>> No.11509792

i'm black, so no idea. probably court dockets.

>> No.11509798

who else parents that don't read here?

>> No.11509800

I’m black and I’m that guys dad. I read court dockets very often.

I’m so sorry, son.

>> No.11509804

>>11509800
on the real dad, i still love you. mom stay trippin so we correct

keep your head up

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>>11509725
I'm surprised he hasn't been posted already.

He also likes Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe.

>> No.11509979

WSJ, Field And Stream, and The Bible

that's about it

>> No.11510006

the books Fox News anchors and pundits write

>> No.11510013
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My dad loves Jim Holt.
>>11510006
Is Greg Gutfeld essential /lit/ dadcore?

>> No.11510025

My dad is dead and never read

>> No.11510030
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>>11510025
my dad is read and never dead

>> No.11510038

.

>> No.11510120

>>11509798
This. I've never seen my family read. They're all illiterate. All my father did was beat and rape me.

Kinda sucks.

>> No.11510160

My dad doesn't read but my mom reads pop lit like divergent and hunger games. Visited them last weekend and she asked what I was reading lately (Swanns Way) and she seemed interested and said she'd read it. How far will she get /lit/?

>> No.11510828

>>11510025
This

>> No.11510833

>>11509744
the eternal boomer

>> No.11510835

Well he does read the Bible every night, but that's it.

>> No.11510838

>>11510120
ya being raped is a hassle

>> No.11510840

>>11510835
sounds like a brainlet

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>>11509725
> tfw dad left when 5 years old
> tfw dead has been addicted to alcohol, cocaine and more recently heroin which he does with my step brother
> tfw didn't even say happy birthday to me
> tfw he never read but once larped and told me he spoke fluent french
> tfw dad is big faggot failure

OP u opened up a bottle of woes tonight

>> No.11510851

>>11510120
i lol'd sorry anon

>> No.11510856

>>11509834
fuck those are 4 of my least favorite authors lol your dad is probably a huge pussy i imagine

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>>11509725

>> No.11510870

>>11510845
*half brother whoops

>> No.11510880

>>11510025
same

>> No.11510891

>>11509725
my dad doesn't read
pretty sure the last book he read was harry potter
he's not illiterate, he's just busy and prefers movies and television to literature

>> No.11510912

>>11509725
can't remember the name but the guy wrote a whole bunch of books about cowboys and the wild west. From the 70's I think, not sure. When I was little and we were camping my dad and I shared a tent, so he'd read them aloud till I went to sleep. comfy af

>> No.11510922

C.S. Lewis

he recently gave me a box full of books which were mostly Lewis or about Lewis

>> No.11510989

>>11510912
McMurtry? or maybe the guy who wrote the Max Brand books

>> No.11511598

>>11509725

One of the stranger things he reads is Mother by Maxim Gorky. He's read it countless times. Also loves Trotsky's post-exile work.

>> No.11511601

Clive Cussler
Tom Clancy
Dan Brown

>> No.11511606

T.C. Boyle

>> No.11511616

>>11509725
Crime Fic, Herodotus, TS Eliot, the Bible, Joyce.
He hasn't read much lit since he was younger, but our bookshelf at home has hardcover Pushkin and Dosto and Shakespeare and all that kinda nice stuff. And a good number of beat-up classics.

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only my fellow republicans will understand

>> No.11511662

>>11511651
how did that cracka manage to join the bloods?

>> No.11511671

>>11509725
I never knew my dad and he's dead now anyways. Check your family privilege, whitey

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>>11509792
>>11509800
>>11509804

>> No.11511682

>dad (divorced, absent) never read books
>brother (raised by dad) said fictional books are just "stories inside someone else's head" and never read them
>sister reads self-help books and erotica
>mother reads anything I tell her to read because I neg her otherwise

Flipping sucks being the genius in the family.

>> No.11511699

El señor presidente-Asturias
Martín Fierro-Hernández

He reads and re-reads these books and can quote them extensively. I find it kind of lovely. He also reads some history.

>> No.11511726

-Bernard Cornwell
-Roger Zelazny
-Patrick O'Brian

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I remember him telling me about some mysteries set in our state he liked to listen to while he drove his semi, so I did some searching and I am pretty sure it is this guy

He always had a pretty large collection of books which impressed me as a kid, mostly Stephen King type stuff and mysteries

>> No.11511782

>>11510912
Louis L'Amour?

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>>11509725
A true intellectual father

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>>11510912

probably Zane Gray

my Dad loves Kurt and he didn't rape me

>> No.11512404

>>11510840
And you sound like a faggot.

>> No.11512464

>>11510030
>>11510025

Gottem

>> No.11512490

He liked the jack reacher audiobooks

>> No.11512500

>>11510120
U redpilled?

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>>11509725

>> No.11512527

>>11512520
I'm sorry your dad is a pseud.

>> No.11512545

Roth, Bukowski, Palahniuk, McEwan, Irving, Murakami...
He's not even American.

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>>11509725
I was quite disappointed when I finally read him.

>> No.11512710

leon uris, robert heinlein, tom clancy, mario puzo, ian fleming, and a bunch of other pop stuff generally

i did see him reading Portnoy's Complaint once. i remember because the cover was very striking and didn't look like any of the other books he kept by his chair. don't know if he read any other great american authors after that

>> No.11512719

>>11510006
This

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>>11510030

>> No.11512751

>>11509798
Same, I guess that's why I'm such a fucked up faggot.

>> No.11512772

My dad only reads murakami and gets defensive if I say he's a mediocre author

>> No.11512783
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og dadcore

>> No.11512907

I don't have a dad and my stepdad doesn't read.