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ITT: writers everyone else loves, but you can't stand.

>> No.2017149
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I tired reading Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov a few years ago, they were so fucking slow and boring. I eventually read half of C&P before not being able to take the style anymore.

I wanted to like him so much, too.

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Everyone loves Whitman.

Why can't you stand, OP? I fell off a ladder.

>> No.2017161

>>2017149
FUCKING THIS

Reading Zarathustra, I have no choice other than to call Nietzsche a total dickhole.

>> No.2017165

>>2017160
OP here.

I tripped and broke my leg

Feelsbadman.jpg

>> No.2017169

>>2017157
Did you try The Idiot? that's the only relatively long book of his that I've managed to finish.

>> No.2017178

>>2017157
i wasn't crazy about c&p either but i loved brothers k.

>>2017149
seconding this along with yukio mishima and ayn rand. at least mishima had nose prose.

>> No.2017187

>>2017169
I haven't, but now that it's been recommended I think I will. It's been a few years, and I still would really like to like him.

>> No.2017189

>>2017160
>Everyone loves Whitman

yeah, why is this? i've been thinking of making a thread to ask, but I might as well ask here if I can. I haven't read very much of his work, but it seems like many writers that i like had the major hots for him. He strikes me as someone I'd enjoy, but i've never been able to really dig in to him. what's goin awn?

>> No.2017193

>>2017189
read him!

song of myself! now!

>> No.2017197

>>2017189
Basically it's because he was American and he did a bunch of shit, stylistically, that was ahead of its time, and his themes super-duper resonated with a bunch of people. Also, mad homosexuality up in that poetry, probably did not hurt his popularity.

>> No.2017200

>>2017178
>nose prose.

i meant nice prose. oops.

>> No.2017227

>>2017193
okay!

>>2017197
hmm, alright. so he was innovative.

>Also, mad homosexuality up in that poetry, probably did not hurt his popularity.

haha, yes. I was reading some old case studies of homosexuality (1800s, dont recall the precise date or title) and the guys were all "Whitman this, Whitman that" throughout the introduction, though the statement they received from the man himself didn't affirm anything they'd said about his poetry

>> No.2017229

It's Pasternak for me. I just can't stand that amount of jewish whining.