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Anonymous Sun Jun 5 20:38:35 2011 No.1831154 [Reply] [Original]

That feel when you realize that just because you would probably like to be friends with a writer that doesn't mean you're ever going to like their work and it's time to give up

Sorry, bro

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 20:44:35 2011 No.1831161 just casually standin here in an empty, featureless room with one hand placed incredibly high up on a wall

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 20:53:35 2011 No.1831184 Author photos are always so awful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 20:55:35 2011 No.1831189 wat

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 21:36:35 2011 No.1831294 File: 18 KB, 182x277, imgres..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >read "Crime and Punishment" >Try to friend F.D on FB. >Dude is dead. >feelsbadman

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 21:48:35 2011 No.1831320 wait, you want to be friends with fucking jonathan lethem? he strikes me as the kind of guy who likes the smell of his own farts

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 22:09:35 2011 No.1831397 >>1831320 I just like Omega the Unknown okay

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 22:43:35 2011 No.1831547 File: 43 KB, 450x301, M_gladwell..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1831184 This thread is now about bad author photos

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Sun Jun 5 22:50:35 2011 No.1831582 >>1831184 >>1831547 hahaha yes I bet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be my friend and I would like all his stories. Also I would let James Joyce write me poop letters.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 22:55:35 2011 No.1831601 File: 36 KB, 470x333, GBoyd_LydiaDavis_041-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] lydia davis and her crazy eyes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 22:57:35 2011 No.1831610 File: 85 KB, 645x1122, 23-jonathan-franzen-1287762117..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i uh

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:02:35 2011 No.1831630 >>1831610 He wandered in front of an american flag and forgot why he was there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:05:35 2011 No.1831641 File: 106 KB, 452x319, large_neilgaiman..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] DID I MENTION THAT I WRITE GOTHIC FANTASY

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Sun Jun 5 23:05:35 2011 No.1831638 >>1831610 "Uh, guy, it's a picture not a video, we can't make it fade to bl--" "MAKE IT FADE TO BLACK IT WILL BE SO COOL"

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Sun Jun 5 23:07:35 2011 No.1831644 File: 4 KB, 126x126, 1288594056523s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1831641

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:07:35 2011 No.1831646 >>1831641 Gaiman is the very embodiment of tryhard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:10:35 2011 No.1831656 >>1831641 he's trying to avoid being swept away by a tornado in the mellowest fashion possible

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:12:35 2011 No.1831661 i remember seeing a Joy Williams author photo once and it was the funniest shit i'd ever seen. she looked totally freaked out. can't find it online though and i don't have the book anymore.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:13:35 2011 No.1831667 File: 37 KB, 400x420, 1colorll1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hold that chin up

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:14:35 2011 No.1831671 File: 76 KB, 650x487, steampunk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1831641 Oh, lol.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:14:35 2011 No.1831673 File: 77 KB, 400x601, RenderImage.aspx_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:15:35 2011 No.1831684 File: 30 KB, 400x278, updike_1250417a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:16:35 2011 No.1831687 File: 50 KB, 400x480, suarez.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:17:35 2011 No.1831694 >>1831641 I think my favorite part is either that he has that goofy little smile going or that they clearly did the shoot at like 10:30 am

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:18:35 2011 No.1831696 File: 25 KB, 460x276, Bret-Easton-Ellis.-006.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i'm losing my edge

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:20:35 2011 No.1831703 File: 42 KB, 108x139, 6a00d8341c728e53ef00e54f36ac9c8833-800wi..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I want a bigger version of this so bad

Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:24:35 2011 No.1831713
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Every posed photograph of Jonathan Safran Foer makes him look like some kid whose mom paid a professional to do a shoot of him in celebration of his graduating eighth grade as salutatorian and President of the National Junior Honor Society

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:30:35 2011 No.1831731 >>1831713 actually i like how everyone picture perfectly captures what an over-privileged little shit he is.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:33:35 2011 No.1831747 File: 34 KB, 340x460, ft_visitors_foer..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1831731 u jelly?

Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:43:35 2011 No.1831798

>>1831747

jelly of being private school-educated all his life, paid for by his wealthy jew lawyer parents, got into an ivy and studied under the tutelage of joyce carol oats?

yeah i'm fucking jelly. i want to punch him in his smug, self-satisfied fucking face.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:44:35 2011 No.1831806 >>1831798 btw i attend an ivy too. he pisses me off because i have to live amongst little turdlings just like him every day. entitled shits who never suffered a day in their life and get a leg up on everyone with everything. end rant

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:45:35 2011 No.1831809 >>1831798 i'm gonna buy a racehorse just to name it joyce carol oats

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Sun Jun 5 23:50:35 2011 No.1831830 File: 19 KB, 316x421, jean-auel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I can't decide on what Jean Auel photo to post...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 5 23:53:35 2011 No.1831841 File: 38 KB, 378x380, aHyNHMV3lnve2x03eITEbCWHo1_400..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You can't stop them from asking you to pose with action figures, but you can stop yourself from showing up in a jacketless Canadian tuxedo

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 00:02:35 2011 No.1831874 >>1831830 ...where did you get a picture of my mom? the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 00:06:35 2011 No.1831883 File: 167 KB, 284x316, guisereally.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >being jelly of anything involving joyce carol oates

Anonymous Mon Jun 6 00:17:35 2011 No.1831927
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>>1831883
what about her dope ass promotional photos that seem designed to make her look as much like a future "reclusive woman's corpse eaten by her 30 pet cats" news segment

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 00:22:35 2011 No.1831941 >>1831927 those are actually amazing glasses but i don't think i could rock them without looking like a porn producer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 01:17:35 2011 No.1832052 File: 393 KB, 252x315, jimbutcher.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] holy shit, i can't believe this is a picture of somebody i've heard of and not something off the back of a self-published libertarian comic spy thriller

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 09:32:35 2011 No.1832683 File: 9 KB, 250x254, hitch123..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 09:36:35 2011 No.1832689 >>1831747 I would be if he wasn't a shit writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 10:10:35 2011 No.1832732 >>1831630 and then reality began to unravel beneath him

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 10:50:35 2011 No.1832807 File: 13 KB, 220x286, bio_hitchens.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1832683 Hitchens is like the only writer ever incapable of taking a bad author photo. Seriously, when this is your worst one (pic related) you kinda have it made.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 6 12:11:35 2011 No.1832893 >>1832807 that picture is fine but posing like a chubby version of an '80s proto-Vertigo Comics character is ridiculous

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