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>my favourite authors are JK Rowling and GRR Martin!

>> No.4267553

There's nothing really wrong with that unless you're into literature, they're both entertaining writers.

>> No.4267556
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>my favourite TV show is Doctor Who, and I also enjoy the quality graphic novels of Neil Gaiman

>> No.4267563

>>4267553
you don't get it
>>4267556
you get it

>> No.4267565

>>4267563
Is Gaiman inherently not good for the majority of people here?

I like From Hell and Sandman but I can understand the edgy appeal for teens who are interested in their first "graphic" novel

>> No.4267567

>my favorite is something that is frowned upon by pseudo-intellectuals

>> No.4267569

>>4267553
>>4267565
>that bad art you mentioned is actually pretty good, what's going on here?

Are you going to post this after each post?

>> No.4267572

>Brion Gysin? Oh my god I love Breaking Bad!

>> No.4267580

>>4267565
Isn't From Hell by Watchmen guy?

>> No.4267588

>>4267580
It's by Alan Moore, yes.

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>>4267588
Watchmen was pretty cool. I really liked Mr. Brooklyn.

>> No.4267623

>>4267610
Is this from the movie? It looks totally ridiculous.

>> No.4267625

>>4267623
That is sort of the point.

>> No.4267628

>>4267610
>Mr. Brooklyn.

what? you mean dr. manhattan?

>> No.4267633

>>4267628
No, sorry. I meant Sir Bronx.

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>>4267529
I don't really see the problem with this. Neither of these authors are trying to be artistic; they didn't set out with the objective of appealing to an artistic community. They're commercial authors, I'm sure if you asked them, they would completely agree with you: their goal is to tell a story and make money from said story. Prose, imagery, etc, comes second to plot, unlike literary fiction, as you well know, which is the converse. They are very good at what they do; the same can be said for Dan Brown. No matter how shit the writing, they achieve their goal of providing entertainment. They don't set out to write literature, so why do we sit around here pretending they do?

Pic semi-related: You insist on confusing an art form with something completely different.

>> No.4267648

>there's no instrinsic quality in simple storytelling!

>> No.4267649

>>4267628
>you mean dr. manhattan?
no, quite sure I meant Mr. Brooklyn

>> No.4267685

>>4267565
>>4267556
To be honest I didn't even know Gaiman wrote comics. I just like his short stories.

what does that say about me

>> No.4267687

>>4267685
>what does that say about me
nothing. we're just shitposting for some giggles

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>the only books I've ever finished are Harry Potter and Twilight ones

(She's cute though.)

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>my favourite authors are Haruki Murakami and Jack Kerouac!

>> No.4267698

>>4267567
touched a nerve, huh?

>> No.4267700

Is The Book Thief literary fiction?

>> No.4267702

>>4267690
>(She's cute though.)
the redeeming point! it's here when I'll think, "at least she reads..."

>> No.4267706

>>4267700
it's comfortably lower-midbrow on the official suncock chart. that's the red zone, but only light red. more like pink, really.

>> No.4267712

>>4267706
Wha?

>> No.4267900

>>4267702
You don't know how many times I've actually thought that to myself.
Geez Louise, try reading something else for a change.
>I've read Twilight too. It sucked.

>> No.4268825

>>4267900
I watched the first movie (on an airplane). It was be no means horrible but, oh God, it was not even that good either.
>I like to watch you sleep from your window
I mean really, what kind of pervert is this guy?

>> No.4268836

>meet girl at club
>hit it off
>we grab drinks and find a quiet place to talk
>talk for hours
>she asks me if I like books, I tell her yeah
>she tells me what her favourite books are
>she seems pretty intelligent, and we're both at one of the best Universities in the world so I have high expectations
>"I love Harry Potter and the Hunger Gamees."
>I'm very drunk at this point
>Laugh openly in her face, call her a pleb
Things went south from there.

Sorry, Gen.

>> No.4269025

>>4267694
It's like you walked by the "for your hipster nephew" shelf in the christmas display of a large chain book store and decided you didn't like the first two authors that caught your eye

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>my favorite author is ayn rand

>> No.4269052

>>4268836
ya blew it.

>> No.4269072

>>4269052
Plenty of girls with taste, no reason to fuck girls without taste.

>> No.4269122

>>4269072
Yeah, but if they had taste they wouldn't be fucking you.

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>>4269122

>> No.4270327

>>4267529
>low hanging fruit

>> No.4270329

>>4269122
Damn.

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>>4269122

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>>4270323
Fuckin' A

>> No.4270355

I experience an internal struggle every time a girl I like tells me her favourites authors are people like Coelho, Chbosky, Rowling, Collins, etc. My immediate reflex is to make a Bloom face and turn 360 degrees, but then I remember that I don't want to be that guy and do my best to suppress it. It's something that plays on my mind a lot more than it should do, and the amount of time I spend on /lit/ probably has something to do with that. Anyway, since I met my girlfriend 6 or so months ago I've introduced her to stuff like Rhys, Rilke, Aira, Munro, and even Wallace, so everything worked out for the best. A girl with a casual interest in reading is far more likely to take your suggestions and enjoy them than a girl who shuns reading altogether.

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>>4269122

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>>4269122

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>>4269122
#wrekt

>> No.4270363

>>4269122
Well if her taste in books runs in the Pynchon, Joyce, DFW vein, she probably isn't fucking anybody.

>> No.4270366

>>4270355
My ex was so well read that she eventually bought a kindle because she didn't have enough room for books. She had already read half the books I had read and she had even read the bible.
Not even my Witness Grandmother had read the entire fucking bible.

[spoiler I miss her[/spoiler]

>> No.4270447

anakin ur gun' rek me lad

>> No.4270448

>>4270447
Disregard this

>> No.4271609

>>4270363
>b-b-b-but...

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>>4267694

At least Murakami is a fuckton better than Ozai/Oe/Mishima.

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>/lit/ still makes fun of GRRM

>> No.4272503

>>4271639
>At least Murakami is a fuckton better than Ozai/Oe/Mishima.

Is it Opposite Day already?

>> No.4272530

>Lord of the Rings is the best work of fiction of the 20th century
I had somebody try to tell me this. I was very glad when they assumed that I only read non-fiction.

>> No.4272551

>>4267698
What's so touchy about his post? It's pretty much spot on.

>> No.4272597

>Talking with friends about books
>we discuss what the densest book of the past century is
>Ulysses and infinite Jest are contenders
>Some guy we just met that night decides to throw in his opinion
>'I tried to read The Silmarillion once, and I think it's probably the densest book ever written'
>Haven't seen him since

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>> No.4272623

>>4270355
>Coelho, Chbosky, Rowling, Collins
emmawatsoncore

>> No.4272691

>>4272597
'The Silmarillion' is much denser than 'Infinite Jest'.

(In fact, why the fuck did you mention 'Infinite Jest' at all?? There is nothing 'dense' about that vapid slow-motion circlejerk.)

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>>4272691

>> No.4272705

>>4272597
It's obviously Finnegans Wake

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>I'm a huge fan of Lovecraft! I've read Call of Cthulhu twice already!

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>>4272603
I love it.

>> No.4273962

>>4267625
Not of the comics, no.