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Anonymous Tue May 31 23:08:42 2011 No.1818593 [Reply] [Original]

My favorite writer > your favorite writer.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:09:42 2011 No.1818597 My grandmother?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:11:42 2011 No.1818603 ofuk, not another ayn rand thread

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:12:42 2011 No.1818605 >>1818603 Flannery O'Conner, you nit.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:13:42 2011 No.1818608 southern flan better keep your head

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:13:42 2011 No.1818611 >implying I don't love FOC Wise Blood is great

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:14:42 2011 No.1818612 >>1818593 But what if my favorite writer = your favorite writer? Also southern writers uber alles. Deal with it yankee scum.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:15:42 2011 No.1818619 File: 14 KB, 261x370, sarah-palin-miss-wasilla-1984[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Big Palin fan, eh?

Anonymous Tue May 31 23:17:42 2011 No.1818627
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Flannery O'Connor is such an awful storyteller. That one with the boring, paper-thin characters, where the bad guy was named fucking Bad Guy or Misfit or some such shit and killed the people whose car brokedown for no reason?

>oh well Catholic metaphors blah blah morals blah religion

Flannery O'Connor sucks. Pic related.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:18:42 2011 No.1818631 My favorites > Your favorite CAMUS > VONNEGUT > KAFKA > DICK > FLANNERY O'CONNOR But on the other hand, FLANNERY O'CONNOR > PLENTY OF OTHER LESS TALENTED WRITERS

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:18:42 2011 No.1818634 >>1818627 >he's never read any of her work!

Anonymous Tue May 31 23:18:42 2011 No.1818635
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>>1818612
i want an airbrushed 'rock heaven' tire cover or black velvet painting with flans o'c, faulkner, tennessee williams, carson mccullers, etc. jamming together

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:18:42 2011 No.1818636 File: 34 KB, 1280x1024, 1296170245420.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Well, I'm religious, but I have to be dark and edgy like those 20th century existentialists. Hm. >every story ends with someone killing him or herself

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:19:42 2011 No.1818640 >>1818627 "the bad guy"

Anonymous Tue May 31 23:20:42 2011 No.1818648

>>1818634
I had to read, analyze and write two essays about three or four of her stories back in my Catholic high school days.

All of her stories were pretty lame.

I still remember the one where its the angsty fuck and his fat racist mom and then I'm supposed to realize that hating people for their prejudice is just as bad as being prejudice. Okay the South, okay.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:21:42 2011 No.1818650 File: 50 KB, 1280x720, ikacake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1818635 >my face if this was a reality

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:24:42 2011 No.1818657 Hemmingway > Vonnegut > Camus > Huxley > Wells > Kafka > Joyce > Borges > Orwell OP you must eat dicks for breakfast if you think Flannery O'Catholic is even on the same level as these giants.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:25:42 2011 No.1818662 >>1818657 oh man, this is a really, really bad post

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:26:42 2011 No.1818663 File: 401 KB, 640x480, books.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1818657 >Borges is lower than Huxley or Camus >any of those writers was as good as FOC at the art of the short story, with the exception of Hemmingway and Borges

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:27:42 2011 No.1818668 File: 388 KB, 628x428, bison_barf.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1818657

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:28:42 2011 No.1818670 >People putting Vonnegut on a pedestal it's like i'm on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:29:42 2011 No.1818675 >>1818657 Fuck you, 1984 was great. I guess all of his other work was bordering on shittier, so I'll let that slide, although I do have a book of his essays that I love to death. And Welles was fucking terrible.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:30:42 2011 No.1818676 >>1818657 >Hemingway > Camus/Vonnegut whathtefuckamireading.jpg

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:31:42 2011 No.1818679 >>1818676 Vonnegut is good. And nothing more.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:33:42 2011 No.1818685 >>1818676 Not even focusing on the retarded part. Jesus Christ, get the fuck out.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:36:42 2011 No.1818695 Salinger/Heminway/Steinbeck you niggers

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:38:42 2011 No.1818703 >>1818627 That's actually what i love about her stories. Shit has such a low probability of going wrong and it goes wrong anyway. It's magical. "Wildcat", "The Barber" and of course, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are my favorites from her.

Anonymous Tue May 31 23:41:42 2011 No.1818709

>>1818663
I very much like all of the authors, arguing their position on an off-the-top-of-my-head list is pointless as the difference between how much I like them is negligible. And FOC had awful short-stories with predictable endings the protagonist is either going to kill himself or be murdered by some unrealistic Catholic metaphor antagonist and run-of-the-mill Catholic theology coated in try-hard 20th century existential grit.

>>1818675
Hey dickhead, Orwell is one of my favorites and I referred to him as a "giant". He just doesn't top my list.

>>1818670
He's hilarious, his work is touching and his plots are original and captivating. He's also one of the forerunners of Post-Modernism in Literature.

>>1818676
See the first part of my first response, although I still defend Hemmingway as my favorite author. Might be biased because he was a bullfighter.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:47:42 2011 No.1818728 >>1818709 i could start listing off the top of my head stories by her that don't end with murder or suicide but you and i both know you're being reductive and dumb

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:55:42 2011 No.1818745 (Flannery O'Connor * Robert Anton Wilson)/Gabriel Garcia Marquez <= Dostoevsky/(Carson Mcullers * Raymond Chandler)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 23:56:42 2011 No.1818752 Joyce > Melville > Tolstoy > Salinger > Your favorite author

>>	sandwiches Wed Jun 1 00:03:42 2011 No.1818770 Tolstoy, Proust, Whitman > Sebald > Borges > Faulkner > Kafka > Melville > Pynchon > your shitty favourite author

Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 Wed Jun 1 00:07:42 2011 No.1818774
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>>1818593

I see no Somerset Maugham on this list but it is most likely an oversight by you nice fellows.

Also it is erroneous to say one author is better than another because they both usually wrote in completely different styles, time periods, topics and languages.

>>	sandwiches Wed Jun 1 00:10:42 2011 No.1818778 >>1818774 my nigga, where to start with Somerset? Of Human Bondage? Is it as kinky as it sounds?

>>	Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 Wed Jun 1 00:11:42 2011 No.1818783 >>1818778 Moon & Sixpence. It will blow your socks off, my dear friend.

>>	sandwiches Wed Jun 1 00:22:42 2011 No.1818801 File: 24 KB, 300x450, 1276909312525.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1818783 Looks exotic. Thanks.

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