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America's only contribution to great literature.

Prove me wrong.

>protip: you can't

>> No.12534317

Oh fuck, I actually can't.

>> No.12534330

but it long and boring

>> No.12534332

>>12534292
Faulkner

/thread

>> No.12534341

>>12534332
Don’t /thread your own post
I agree though.

/thread

>> No.12534350

>>12534292
Reading it now and I love it, my fellow old blacks

What's everyones fav chapter? Hard mode: no whiteness

I'm a little more than halfway thru and the few chapters after and including Brit are incredible. Something something painting the copper wheat sea blue, Christ what amazing prose.

>> No.12534357

>>12534350
The Symphony of course

>> No.12534364

>>12534292
Poe

>> No.12534371

>>12534357
>of course
Damn, well when I get to it, i hope it hits as much as it hits you
The prose is tremendous, god. I thought it was just a meme but I'm really white taken by it.

>> No.12534375

>>12534364
This. Also, Whitman.

>> No.12534459
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12534459

ahem

>> No.12534461

>>12534292
There's a $5 AmazonClassics edition on Amazon right now, does anyone know if this edition is pure shit?

>> No.12534478

>>12534292

Poe, Whitman, Faulkner, Eliot, Dickinson, Salinger.

>> No.12534500

what do you guys think about melvilles other novels?

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12534512

>All american writers are shi-