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Explain why you hate this guy

>> No.17531178

Why do I hate my e grandpa?

>> No.17531223

>>17531176
I don't he is one of my favorite authors. Sirens of Titan is one of my favorite books. It's poignant and funny and encapsulates the absurdity of our lives. It's funny how 4chan pseuds disregard him because his writing is direct and easy to comprehend. His ideas are good and so are his books. He strikes me as a genuine person.

>> No.17531230

>>17531176
He writes about science fiction rather than writing science fiction.

>> No.17531233

because 4chan told me he is popular on the website reddit and that's a no-no

>> No.17531265

what a thread mark

>> No.17531287

>>17531223
Sirens is one of the few books that made me cry. The other two are Moby Dick and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
RIP Anselmo.

>> No.17531347

Say what you will about him, but I've Got a Name, Time in a Bottle and Operator are all beautiful songs.
Rapid Roy, Bad Bad Leroy Brown and You Don't Mess Around With Jim are all fantastic foot-stomping tunes.
His music is great for playing with the family. It's upbeat and light-hearted, and it can also be mellow and introspective.
He had a big impact on my development.
God Bless Jim Croce.

>> No.17531375

>>17531287
Bless up nigga.

>> No.17531384

That 'Leroy Brown' is overplayed
not really, it's great

>> No.17531439

>>17531384
There's no such thing as an overplayed Jim Croce song, ya heathen

>> No.17531458

>>17531287
>Moby Dick
When?

>> No.17531495

>>17531458
There was a passage I read when I was feeling particularly low. It was this part and some of the preceding pages I think.
>“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”

>> No.17531502

>>17531495
I've been down in the gorge for quite a while now.

>> No.17532095

>>17531223
he's one of the authors that made short stories a "thing"

being able to convey complicated ideas in short form, with common terms, and uncomplicated language is not easy/under appreciated.

you may not agree with what he has to say, you may not like his style, but i think you should accept that he's one of the great american writers.

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>>17531347

>> No.17532161

Why would you hate him?

>> No.17532163

>>17531176
He approximates 4chan's sense of humor too much, irreverent, mocking satirical, scatological. Nobodies hate to see their own traits reflected in someone who gained recognition.

I will say of Vonnegut that he was one of very few authors to make me laugh out loud. God Bless You Mr Goldwater is a riot. Diana Moon Glampers is a misogynistic bundle of unmitigated comedy.

>> No.17532167

>>17532163
>Goldwater
Rosewater

>> No.17532269

>>17531458
when queeqeg rapes ishmael. chowder all over the floor

>> No.17533270

People “hate” him because he’s popular and easy to read

>> No.17534194
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17534194

sing it with me lads

IF I COULD KEEP TIME IN A BOTTLE

>> No.17534247

>>17531176
I don’t hate him, he seems like a somewhat funny guy but he’s overrated by normalfags with low attention spans who have read very few books.he’s fairly goood but for the most part he’s baby’s-first Pynchon
>>17531458
Not him but for me it’s when Pip sees God and the nature of reality.

>> No.17534872

>>17531176
I don't, he's excellent entry-level /lit/.
Gets the midwit noggin joggin

>> No.17534930
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>>17531176
I can understand why people would dislike or even hate him. His stories are pretty bare-bones in terms of description and imagery, and a lot of them just read like the diary of someone who had an interesting idea and then multiple other ideas spinning off of it, decided to bind them all up with a couple doodles, and sell them as a book. As traditional prose I'd go so far to call him a weak writer.

But I enjoy his stuff. It's very unique, and even if it can get a little repetitive, I find him to be a genuinely original American voice that comes off as relatively un-pretentious and even earnest through all the levels of irony and deconstruction he layers in his work.

My favorite book of his is Breakfast of Champions.

>> No.17535024

>>17531176
He looks like a homosexual

>> No.17535574

>>17531176
i'm a bitter nerd and instinctively hate anything that seems popular because of my fear of being left out

>> No.17535689

>>17534930
His characters are so obviously created to serve often unitary functions in a highly transparent and limpid manner. I’m struck by their lack of depth. He write them very black and white and I do not like that and think it is intellectually lazy and the opposite of compelling.

>> No.17535714

>>17535689
also I’d like to add that his content is pretty lowbrow and lacks nuance or substance in my estimation. Maybe that is a result of the constrains he operates within. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because it’s satire.