[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 150 KB, 597x800, 2007TomWolfe231.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289395 No.1289395 [Reply] [Original]

Here's what we do in this thread. Pick the writer whom you believe fields the largest disparity between how well they LOOK like they can write, and how well they ACTUALLY write.

My nominee is Tom Wolf. He looks like he could slang some words, but really he's not too good.

>> No.1289396

He's a pretty good writer actually.

>> No.1289398

>>1289395
>>1289396
FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHTTTTT!

>> No.1289401

>>1289396
Well okay but I don't think so. I love his style though. Anyway throw in some nominees, fagpiece.

>> No.1289403

>>1289401
Oh, I thought we were talking about style. I like his style. I read Bonfire of the Vanities, the book was OK but I have to admit I kept reading at some parts just because he writes well. The content can sometimes be a bit bland or dull, faggot.

>> No.1289408

>>1289403
The casual inclusion of "faggot" at the end was honestly pretty brilliant. I lol'd.

Ah shit no I meant his patented white suit, not his writing style. I just think his books are really bad.

>> No.1289413

>>1289408
Well if you're a fan of Virginia Wolff you obviously already have some masochist tendencies, no wonder you laughed.

>> No.1289416

HP Lovecraft has the look of soulless dread about him, while... wait, let me rethink this.

>> No.1289439

>>1289413
Well I viewed it more as a sort of collaborative inclusion. I throw in fagpiece at the end and then you throw in faggot. I like Woolf but I'm not really one of those people who gets mad when someone says a writer I like isn't good. If you wanna nominate Woolf, you're more than welcome. Also, pics make the thread more fun.

>> No.1289443

I always expected Tom Wolfe to look like David Simon, couldn't tell you why.

>> No.1289458

>>1289443
Yeah well I always expected that if I started a thread and mentioned him, I wouldn't forget the "E", but it's a crazy world, man.

>> No.1289514

I'm bumping this thread back to the front page.

>> No.1289531
File: 6 KB, 189x202, sartre_jp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289531

decent writing for someone who looks like the village idiot

>> No.1289552
File: 8 KB, 191x263, mukherjee.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289552

She doesn't look like an American 3rd grader to me...

>> No.1289883
File: 55 KB, 500x350, alan-moore.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289883

Looks like hell, and he writes like hell.

>> No.1289885
File: 14 KB, 200x265, 200px-Isaac_asimov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289885

I would never guess that he wrote science fiction having only seen his picture.

>> No.1289886

>>1289885
lol

>> No.1289888
File: 35 KB, 384x288, Delany.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289888

>> No.1289894
File: 32 KB, 590x300, theodor-seuss-geisel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289894

Theodor Geisel is an example of a disparity between what he looks like he writes, and what he actually writes.

Then again, I am intentionally being misleading...

>> No.1289897
File: 44 KB, 392x480, a__a__milne.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289897

He wrote Winnie the Pooh.

>> No.1289906
File: 54 KB, 420x340, harlan_ellison_10.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289906

>> No.1289908

>>1289894
Oh come on back in like the fifties being dressed like that was downright whimsical, completely informal for the time.

>> No.1289927
File: 40 KB, 560x375, 20080915_wallace_560x375.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289927

looks like some white boy who listens to wu tang

>> No.1289942
File: 24 KB, 267x300, orwell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289942

Looks like your granddad. And not the War Vet granddad, the bitch granddad.

>> No.1289979
File: 31 KB, 300x414, thomas_pynchon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289979

Obligatory.

>> No.1289980

As with every gimmick thread, Hemingway wins. He looked like a high school football coach.

>> No.1289990

>>1289885

What's really discrepant about Asimov is the accent.

>> No.1289993
File: 6 KB, 197x255, niven.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1289993

Awesome writing
Awesome dude


BTW it's Larry Niven

>> No.1290008

>>1289894
>>1289897

You see, it's always the slick, dapper, well-dressed gentlemen that have the most vivid imaginations.