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Of which author have you read enough that you could call yourself an "armchair scholar" or their work?

>> No.20334655

Hemmingway

>> No.20334660

>>20334541
None, I usually don't even read books twice.

>> No.20334977

>>20334541
Faulkner
Christopher Hitchens

>> No.20334999

>>20334541
Plato

>> No.20335008

>>20334541
Mishima

>> No.20335012

>>20334541
The hacker known as 4chan

>> No.20335017

>>20334541
Likely Descartes or Spinoza

>> No.20335334

Don delillo
Jack Kerouac
Frank O'Hara

>> No.20335809

>>20334541
kaczynski

>> No.20335871

Bataille
Burroughs
I was obsessed with both as a teenager.
I've read so much by Wyndham Lewis but I still feel I'm missing too much of his work.

>> No.20335883

>>20334541
Muhammad

>> No.20335944

PVBLIVS VERGILIVS MARO

>> No.20335969

Philip Roth

>> No.20335982

>>20335944
How is he so good, I just started the aeneid and it’s so fun, the combination of latin with his style is just perfect.

>> No.20336004

Hegel, Wallace Stevens, DFW, Knausgård, & Monica Youn.

>> No.20336171

>>20334541
What the fuck is the phrasing of this question?

>> No.20336658

salinger and gordon lish, but i find myself armchair scholar-ing about nabokov the most

>> No.20337082

Stephen king. I was thinking about this a few weeks ago, I've probably read about 15 books of his and I don't even consider myself a fan lol

>> No.20337094

>>20334541
Joseph Conrad.
I loved his prose so much I just kept reading his random books until I read everything

>> No.20337104

>>20334541
Unfortunately...

Nietzsche
Bukowski
Thompson

2019-2021 was poorly spent

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>>20334541
R.L. Stine

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>>20335871
/lit/ will become a Bataillean board

>> No.20337901

>>20335008
You read him in translation asshole

>> No.20337904

>>20336171
Are u ESL, or American?

>> No.20337924

Tolkien.

>> No.20338037

>>20334541
Nietzsche
Dostoevsky
Cringe, I know

>> No.20339232

>>20334541
Joyce

>> No.20339245

Graham Greene

I've read most of his novels, most of his published nonfiction, his autobiographical stuff, and the fantastic three volume biography about his life.

>> No.20339430

E Michael Jones

>> No.20339479

>>20334541
orwell maybe

>> No.20340603

>>20334541
Nietzsche, Hamsun, Proust, Knausgaard