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3491863 No.3491863 [Reply] [Original]

How come this sponging, misogynistic, angry little bum was able to produce so much good stuff?

>> No.3491864

Because you have bad taste.

>> No.3491866
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>> No.3491868

>>3491864
oh dear. Try a little harder next time.

>> No.3491873

>>3491868

Hm? If you like a bad author, the question shouldn't be "why is this bad author actually good?", the question should be "why do I like a bad author?"

And the answer to that is very simple.

>> No.3491880

>>3491873
Has 4chan just hiccuped?

>> No.3491959

He ripped off Fotane and Hemingway's style and had really strong editors to make sense of his pissy drivel.

>> No.3492082

>>3491959
This is actually somewhat true.

>> No.3492335

>>3491863
Pro Tip: He didn't.

>> No.3492347

>>3491959
fante dude. or is fotane an obscure joke ?

>> No.3492349

>>3492335
>How come ... was able to produce so much good stuff?
>He didn't.
*He wasn't

Grammar is important.

Please be more careful next time.

>> No.3492357

>>3492349
I'm disappointed. That's the best insult you've got on me?

>> No.3492358

>>3492357
It wasn't an insult.

>> No.3492367

>>3492358
Quip, retort, wise crack, etc. Fill in your own blank then.

I have to assume you're the person I told to be more careful because there was already a Bukowski thread on the front page and that you got mad about that.

>> No.3492417

>>3492367
The worst thing about being a tripfag is always having to get the last word in, else people will know you lost.

>> No.3492627

>>3492367
Fuck off.

>> No.3492637

>>3492627
sage.

>> No.3492649

>>3492637
Bump

>> No.3492660

why wouldn't he have been?

>> No.3492708

>>3492335
I believe this guy has a psychic disorder, because hes so fixated on this author and apparently spends his whole day browsing lit/ for Bukoswki threads to post in. Do you have no work to do Bulkowski?

>> No.3492720

Are his books difficult to read?

>> No.3492750

>>3492367
Only an egotistical dullard would be offended by such a gentle rebuke as >>3492349.

They corrected you for grammar on a literature discussion board. No need to be upset.

>> No.3492753

>>3492637

No, seriously. Fuck off. You rear your ugly little head in every single Bukowski thread.

>> No.3492762

>>3492720
>Are his books difficult to read?
In terms of prose? No, they are stylistically minimal and very easy to read.

In terms of content? They can be a little hard for some delicate flowers. He was an alcoholic who was severely abused as a child and discusses this. There is also woman bashing, swearing and general despair.

>> No.3492871

>>3492720
He writes at the level of a fifth grader. No, they aren't hard at all.

>> No.3493018

>>3492871
>He writes at the level of a fifth grader
That's a little hypocritical.

>> No.3493047

Why so many bukowski threads?

>> No.3493055

>>3493047
Because Laurie Penny threads are a bannable offence.

>> No.3493164
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3493164

>>3493055
Laurie Penny is about to do an online Q&A for Question Time in 10 mins. This should be good.

>> No.3493171

>>3493164
Could someone please ask her whether those femdom fics are true stories?

>> No.3493180

>>3493171
Ask her yourself.
twitter.com/BBCExtraGuest

>> No.3493190

I dunno man, he sounds like a shifty motherfucker if you've ever heard him talk

>> No.3493191

>>3493190
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWZOsVtqR0

>> No.3493212

>>3493164
I have joined le twitterverse specifically for this.

>> No.3493217

like half his writing covers labour. I hardly think he's a sponge

>> No.3493222

>>3493212
are you going to ask about femdom or boring twitter feminist journalism shit

don't be a nigger

>> No.3493220

>>3491873
taking it too far, m8

move along to another thread

>> No.3493229

I am not the "N" word. I am happily married to an Anime pillow (Thank you very much)

Well now excuse me... I am going to fuck the fluff out of it now.

>> No.3493235

>>3493229
What anime is it

>> No.3493237
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>>3493212
>I have joined le twitterverse specifically for this.
She just said pic related. Ask her about being a burlesque stripper.

Also, enable 'All' instead of 'No replies'.

>> No.3493239
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3493239

because pic related

also only the wealth extremes are interesting for fiction. It's only if you fall in between bukowski and tolstoy's high society that no one gives a fuck. authors like dickens who cover both extremes are guaranteed success

>> No.3493246

>>3493055
what does she have to do with bukowski?

>> No.3493247

>>3493246
Both are shit

>> No.3493248

>>3493235

Sailor Moon.

Fuck you for interrupting my stroke session with it. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

>> No.3493253

>>3493247
is she a fan? did she big him up?

>> No.3493255

>>3493191
that's harry dean stanton

>> No.3493256

>>3493229
>>3493237
stop derailing threads pls

>> No.3493258

>>3493247
I certainly have a preference about which one I'd rather wake up next too after a night drinking.

>> No.3493263

>>3493239
Never met a self-respecting hipster who liked Bukowski
Franzen and Murakami are arguably the two most successful semiliterary authors, and they write almost exclusively about the middle class.

>whoops everything I said is wrong hurr durr

>> No.3493268

>>3493247
why don't you like her? what did she do to get on your jimmies and be relevant to /lit/ more than any other journalist?

>> No.3493269

>>3493268
>journalist
She's written 4 books too.

>> No.3493270

>>3493269
so why did you ignore all the other questions?

>> No.3493273

>>3493263
that\s only contemporary hipsters

>> No.3493275

>>3493270
I'm not the same guy. I'm a fan of hers.

>> No.3493281

>>3493164
Why does /lit/ like this cunt?

>> No.3493286

>>3493281
>Why does /lit/ like this cunt?
Cause she's fighting the good fight.

http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2013/02/kate-middleton-benefit-scrounging-mother-moves-palace-taxpayers-expense

>> No.3493310

>>3493286
She's a self-righteous, privately educated champagne socialist. She makes a few good points, but a broken clock is right twice a day. Really don't understand all this /lit/ love for her.

>> No.3493324
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>>3493310
I don't care about her parentage or wealth, just the content of her arguments. She was a teenager when she wrote pic related and it's pretty good...for a teen. I honestly think she might have something really powerful to say in a few years.

>> No.3493330

>>3493324
She says she's 24 in the opening sentence, and the only good part is the Thompson quote.
I think she'll keep saying things for years, regardless of whether or not it's powerful.

>> No.3493335

>>3493324
This is tumblr tier. Are you fucking kidding me? This is a grown adult sperging about the subjugation of women in Genesis, rebellion against the man in a posh private school, and boring, nutless, angsty leftist activism. Who cares?

The bar is low these days.

>> No.3493338

>>3493330
She wrote the italics when she was 18. She goes onto say it was the first post on her blog.

>> No.3493353

>>3493324
She's still a teen mentally from the looks of things. I mean, all this "Down our oppressors!" and "stick it to da man!" shit is cringeworthy. She's a hypocritical, inconsistent journalist. I think /lit/ only likes her because of the way she looks or something along those lines.

>> No.3493392

>>3493353
>I mean, all this "Down our oppressors!" and "stick it to da man!" shit is cringeworthy.
That's because you live in a bubble of incredible privilege, while 'western democracy' maintains a three tier, 1st, 2nd, 3rd world status for our opulent consumerism, and force the majority of the world into poverty.

Yeah, attack anyone complaining about the system. The government now owe 17k for every single person in the country, and we are going to fucking feel that debt over the next decade. But no, ignore it, criticize these lazy leftists who can see this and are screaming to do something about it. They are deluded scroungers and everything must be ok, because you can lay in bed all day masturbating and eating chocolate. For fuck sake, why are people so blind? Pacified by television, internet and lulled into thinking everything okay.

>> No.3493398

>>3493392
i don't think he's attacking the act of complaining about the system, i think he's just not impressed by a teenager repeating the same rah rah fight the power slogans that they all do at that age, and somehow getting published for it because she has blog tier writing abilities

>> No.3493985

>>3492750
Put my thoughts into words.

>> No.3495023

>>3493324
She's right though. In the 70s, outsiders, freaks had mobility, could walk into a job, and leave for another easily. Normal jobs were also less relentless, young people didn't have to work as hard. Pay was better, you could be invested in the system.

The baby boomers really did a number on the world. They grew up in a semi socialist world then as soon as they started getting power, they changed the rules so the money went in their direction at the expense of their children's generation.

>> No.3495037

I think vocal fans - maybe 3 anons tops - make it look like lit love but I assure you - /lit/ does not unite around anything, good or bad.

I myself can't be bothered to go find out who she is because there are a million other interesting things not teen-angsty that hold my interest.

>> No.3496138

bump