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2291239 No.2291239 [Reply] [Original]

Your favorite contemporary writer will die in your lifetime.

>> No.2291240

>All the writers I like are already dead

>> No.2291241

i'mc ool with that but if i die before the unreleased salinger stuff comes out i'm going to be the most pissed off dead person alive

>> No.2291242

You know what's worse? That's the happy ending. What if I commit suicide before then?

>> No.2291243

Pynchon is, like, 343 years old.

It's not sad when it's to be expected.

>> No.2291246

I am my favorite contemporary writer.

>> No.2291249

>>2291246
This attitude/outlook pretty much ensures you'll never be anyone else's favourite, contemporary writer.

>> No.2291259

>>2291249
I didn't say I liked my writing the most.

>> No.2291260

The only writer that I will be sad when they die is Pynchon if only because there's no one like him and we will no longer be able to look forward to new Pynchon novels. I will also be sad when David Simon dies. Everybody else... meh. Everybody has to die sometime

>> No.2291267

>>2291243

74 is... old... but in this day and age, it doesn't seem *that* old. I kind of expect Pynchon to live until he's like 90. Just have a feeling.

>> No.2291269

Well yeah, I guess LeGuin is getting on in years. She's had a hell of a run, though.

>> No.2291274

>>2291267
Hey, Burroughs lived till he was 83, and he was Burroughs.

>> No.2291292

>>2291239
Has she been born yet?

Such a thrill.

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>>2291239
Dunno. Me and my favourite contemporary author are the same generation, and he lives a healthier lifestyle, so he's more likely to live.

Then again, he lives in chicago so may be shot dead tomorrow. I hope not.

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;______________________;

>> No.2291968

Pterry isn't my favorite writer, but his death will be brutal.

Stephen Fry, Pynchon, McCarthy...


I hope GRRM pulls a Jordan and dies before he can finish Neckbeardia. Those books are awful and his readers deserve to weep over what could have been.

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2291969

I certainly fucking hope so. He's 76 and I'm 23.

>> No.2291974

>>2291968
>Reads Fry
>calls GRRM readers of bad material
Glass houses bro, glass houses

>> No.2292056

>>2291968

Why so angry? They're just books. You don't have to like them.

>> No.2292070

>>2292056
> neckbeard apologetics

Eat your own diarrhea.

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I'm actually cool with that.

>> No.2292155

My favourite contemporary writer already died

>> No.2292162

>>2292155

>Contemporary writer
>Dead

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contemporary

>> No.2292224

Frankly I'm more annoyed that I'm going to die in my lifetime.

>> No.2292237

>>2292224

Don't worry, it's usually at the end of it.