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Why isn’t this more popular on here?

>> No.12125505
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>>12125425
Because 90% of /lit/ apparently think 'Blood Meridian' is the only book ever written.
Just finished pic related. Flash is the best cad out there frendo. /Lit/ clowns don't know what they're missing. I've tried this discussion b4.

>> No.12125506

>>12125505
>/lit/ with a capital l

>> No.12125563

>>12125425
Because Flashy is a giga-chad and everyone here is a estrogenic faggot.

>> No.12125567

>>12125505
/lit/ here, I didn't think 'Blood Meridian' was a written book. Checkmate fpwp

>> No.12125583

>>12125425

Unironically turned me into a bongaboo. They're a little on the old side which, combined with the fact that they're essentially comedy adventures makes them have a very niche audience.

>> No.12125656

>>12125425
My pet theory?
because 90% of the wankers on here don't actually read the books mentioned, and are content to spout the same shit about the same half a dozen books that get shilled on here on a tediously regular basis.

>> No.12125750

>>12125505
flash gets so much pussy

>> No.12125927
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12125927

Aubrey-Maturin is the superior historical series

>> No.12125962

>>12125927
lol?

>> No.12126166

>>12125425
>not popular
There are pages and pages of posts about Flashman in the warosu archives. It's more popular than, say, The Tartar Steppe.

>> No.12126232

>>12125505
me on the left

>> No.12126302

>>12126166
and the Tartar Steppe is more popular than the Opposing Shore, which is much better.

>> No.12126402

>>12125425
Do I have to read Tom Brown's School Days first?

>> No.12126720

>>12126402
it's not essential. Flashman is a secondary character in that. All you get is the context that Flashman is a shitty guy, which is amusing because he always ends up as the hero.
But you get the fact that Flashman is a shitty guy in every Flashman book, so it isn't really essential.

>> No.12126822

>>12126402
not at all

>> No.12126845

>>12125425
Because it's pulp fiction. You don't see people discussing Tom Clancy very often

>> No.12126867

>>12126845
what a spanner. you do know the first volume was mistaken for an authentic memoir by some newspaper, right?
it's well written, well researched and highly entertaining. hardly Tom Clancy (PBUH) tier.

>> No.12126942

>>12126867
"Well researched" undersells it. I've read History doctoral theses with less exhausting work done in them. I don't think there's another modern author who so vividly and viscerally captures the feel of the Victorian world. Not even John Fowles in the French Lieutenant's Woman does it as well, and that's more accepted as great literature.