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Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:35:39 2011 No.1412244 [Reply] [Original]

Authors who are challenging to read.
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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:37:39 2011 No.1412254 File: 101 KB, 264x351, 1275956900392.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Falkner

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:38:39 2011 No.1412255 Eric Carle

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:39:39 2011 No.1412257 >>1412254 Fuck, I don't understand half the retarded southern speak he uses either.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Sat Jan 1 15:39:39 2011 No.1412258 File: 16 KB, 225x354, kafkaa.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Franz Kafka.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:41:39 2011 No.1412264 >>1412258 Fortunately his stories are rewarding and short (which allows for a lot of rereading). :-)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:42:39 2011 No.1412267 Hubert Selby Jr. His style can be distracting.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:44:39 2011 No.1412270 Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:45:39 2011 No.1412273 David Foster Wallace by a mile. Although that doesn't change the fact that his writing is AMAZING. Difficult doesn't mean bad, retards.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:48:39 2011 No.1412282 >>1412273 It depends. Infinite Jest sure, but The Broom of The System, his essays and short stories on the other hand are rather easy to digest and rather worthit. Infinite Jest is the exact opposite. Digestion is harsh and it's a bland taste.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 15:51:39 2011 No.1412289 Lovecraft because he's so boring.

>>	anonymouse Sat Jan 1 20:00:39 2011 No.1413072 File: 103 KB, 240x249, troll_bread.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:01:39 2011 No.1413079 >>1412273 Why is he so great? Could you explain it to me? I wanna see your point here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:02:39 2011 No.1413082 Umberto muthafucking Eco. Good though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:02:39 2011 No.1413083 Ayn Rand

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:03:39 2011 No.1413085 Charles Dickens

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:51:39 2011 No.1413219 File: 6 KB, 208x242, hesse.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hermann Hesse. The introduction to The Glass Bead Game is like reading a doctoral thesis.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:51:39 2011 No.1413221 Dr. Seuss

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:54:39 2011 No.1413230 File: 17 KB, 301x243, blackface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1413219 Wow. I've never seen Hesse before. He looks like a black and white minstrel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:54:39 2011 No.1413233 Joseph Conrad. Despite its length I gave up on Heart of Darkness. However I loved The Secret Agent. >>1412258 I also gave up The Castle and The Trial. Loved Metamorphosis though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 20:57:39 2011 No.1413245 I read 2666 and I have never had a harder time reading anything.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 21:01:39 2011 No.1413261 Goddamn Deleuze can give me a headache, but he's brilliant a lot of the time so it's worth it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 21:11:39 2011 No.1413291 File: 613 KB, 2400x1599, Tongue For Turnips On Tobacco Road.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] In my short list of accomplishments, I can only think of Joseph Campbell. Reading his work was quite thick throughout

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 21:43:39 2011 No.1413370 Gertrude Stein