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Anonymous Fri Nov 19 16:53:15 2010 No.1294785 [Reply] [Original]

Have you ever read a writer's (auto)biography?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:04:15 2010 No.1294810 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:13:15 2010 No.1294831 >>1294810 which one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:15:15 2010 No.1294837 A few. I've read C.S. Lewis' autobiography, John Stuart Mill's autobiography, and Chesterton's biography of Charles Dickens. I really want to read Boswell's Life of Johnson.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:25:15 2010 No.1294862 Why would it be relevant?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:29:15 2010 No.1294874 The autobiography of Klaus Mann, he had an interesting life. And a biography of Oscar Wilde, which was pretty good, but I don't remember who wrote it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:30:15 2010 No.1294878 I've read a short biography (about 150 pages) of the marquis de Sade but I'd want to read a complete biography. This guy's life is just so fucked

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:34:15 2010 No.1294887 Which writer had the most interesting life that would be worth reading his bio?

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Fri Nov 19 17:36:15 2010 No.1294889 Biographies are to celebrity culture what Shakespeare in Love is to Romantic Comedy

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:36:15 2010 No.1294890 Yes, Henry Miller's

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 17:41:15 2010 No.1294898 >>1294889 What is Shakespeare in Love to Romantic Comedy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 18:01:15 2010 No.1294916 >>1294898 Well, SIL is a RomCom, so I guess biographies are celebrity culture?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 18:41:15 2010 No.1294979 biobump

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 18:42:15 2010 No.1294981 Stephen King wrote a non-fiction book on the subject of writing. It's about half autobiographical, at least with respect to his writing.

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Fri Nov 19 18:49:15 2010 No.1294993 i.e. the same shit but for the 'intellectual' market segment.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 19:10:15 2010 No.1295029 >>1294993 Just stop talking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 19:14:15 2010 No.1295039 Biographies are about famous people. This means they are intellectual bankrupt. I only read the works of anonymous hermits on abstract theological problems - the rest is disgustingly popular prolefeed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 19 19:16:15 2010 No.1295043 On the Road original scroll edition.

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