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4205825

Anonymous Tue Oct 22 20:26:54 2013 No.4205825 [Reply] [Original]

Is there anyone more overrated?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 20:27:54 2013 No.4205828 I don't think so, maybe DFW.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 20:30:53 2013 No.4205831 File: 45 KB, 420x480, tom_wolfe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 20:35:53 2013 No.4205842 Kurt Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 22 20:40:53 2013 No.4205850 >>4205828 Brett Easton Ellis? More like Brett Easton Jealous

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 05:03:57 2013 No.4206731 Most classics, specially those considered the pinnacle of any national literature like Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe.... No matter how good they were, they will always be overpraised.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 05:07:56 2013 No.4206736 >>4206731 Also funny how I couldn't think of who the consensus representative is for Russian and for French literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 05:14:57 2013 No.4206749 >>4206731 what is the point of calling someone overrated if they are absolutely phenomenal

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 05:18:56 2013 No.4206753 >>4206736 Pushkin and Proust pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 05:27:57 2013 No.4206765 File: 73 KB, 640x374, PushkinBivis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4206753 Newfag. Pushkin epic mocked the then literature. Eugene Onegin is as American Psycho 19th century. %% but do shit%%

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 06:16:21 2013 No.4206815 >>4205825 Who is that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 06:19:21 2013 No.4206823 >>4206736 Flaubert and Tolstoy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 06:24:21 2013 No.4206833 File: 100 KB, 780x538, 1380070485353.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4205825 >>4205825 Why are you so mad that some people like what you don't like, OP? You some kind of faggot?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 06:25:20 2013 No.4206835 >>4206753 >>4206823 Proves my point

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 23 06:31:21 2013 No.4206845 >>4206815 sasha grey