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ITT: Authors who have never made a bad book

>> No.5083105

how could you know without reading each of their books?

did you read finnagens wake? chamber music?

>> No.5083117

>>5083105
>finnegans wake
>read

that thing is just a bookcase decoration and even Joyce knew it.

>> No.5083121

>>5083117

You must be a sad person

>> No.5083124

>>5083117
so it's not "reader friendly." although it is because it's rewarding. so joyce expects the reader to do put in some work. why do we, why are we literate? why did we invent the printing press?

>> No.5083132

>>5083124

more like why did we let the printing press invent us

>> No.5083143

>>5083132
that's deep man, you should write a book of puns just puns

>> No.5083145

>>5083124
>so joyce expects the reader to do put in some work.

That is one hell of an understatement. Joyce expected you to either be a masochist or masturbate to his prose.

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>> No.5083155

>>5083121
>>5083124
neither of you got through the book
and neither of you understood a word of it

have fun with your wiki synopsis

>> No.5083156

Clearly you have never read Exiles, Pomes Penyeach and Chamber Music

>> No.5083161

>>5083145

Yes but in his defense he did write the best prose you can expect from a human being

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>> No.5083167

>>5083161
So its like he made the most beautiful wire that I will wrap in black plastic and shove under my floor boards, never to be seen again.

>> No.5083170

>>5083162
I found "The Adolescent" subpar actually

>> No.5083171

>>5083155
why do you resent me for enjoying finnagens wake?

>> No.5083175

>>5083167
Actually no, this isn't even correct. Its more like he could have made the best wire ever but he cut up all the pieces of it and tossed them in a pool of broken glass and battery acid, then ate the schematic. He expects you to die an awful death or get professional help to even begin to uncover these little bits of wire that do nothing but act as an efficient conduit for electricity.

>> No.5083176

There are no bad books, only bad readers.

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>>5083170

>> No.5083205

>>5083176

Yes but you must acknowledge that that's not the case

>> No.5083206

Philip K. Dick

>> No.5083213

>>5083206
is the man in the high castle representative of his work?

>> No.5083214

>>5083176
There is no bad

>> No.5083220

steinbeck

>> No.5083223

>>5083214

Why not?
I perceive it just as I perceive anything else

>> No.5083229

>>5083223
>this much sophistry

>> No.5083253

>>5083229

Why, you call that sophistry when you use 4chan's classical rhetorics yourself, i.e.:

>this much X

>> No.5083262

>>5083253
>this much assblast

>> No.5083265

>>5083253
you mean e.g.

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5083280

Prove me wrong

>> No.5083281

Goethe

>> No.5083283

>>5083265

Nah I think i.e. is fairly accurate

>> No.5083291

>>5083283
ie -- that is
eg-- for example

so it is fairly wrong

>> No.5083292
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>> No.5083295

>>5083291
>fairly
I think you meant 'completely'

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>> No.5083301

>>5083280
Everything but Harrison Bergenon in Welcome to the Monkey House was awful

>> No.5083312

>>5083295
he was intentionally mimicking the previous mistake of the other anon saying "fairly accurate"

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>> No.5083317
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Dante, Homer, & Virgil.

2ez

>> No.5083322

>>5083313
Dude the Zweites Buch sucked.

>> No.5083330

>>5083301
0/10

Try harder, please.

>> No.5083332

>>5083322
>implying it's not his best work

>> No.5083340

>>5083291
"Why, you call that sophistry when you use 4chan's classical rhetorics yourself, that is:

>this much X "

Well anon it reads perfectly fine for me, since I provided the formula for internet argumentation that I was denouncing. Put a "for example" and you'll change the meaning of the whole thing

I feel it's silly having to justify myself over something so simple. Perhaps ie wasn't the best choyce, but it's much more appropriate than e.g.

>> No.5083346

>>5083171
>>5083171
Because you didn't enjoy anything. You just like the image of having read the book.

>> No.5083353

>>5083340
No, not that is as in to clarify. When yo say ie youre equating.So 4chab rhetoric is >this much x. But really thats just a part of it. Like saying youre a globular fruit ie a watermelon. But thete are other globular fruits, even other melons

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I know /lit/ has a huge boner for dostoevsky, but Lev, unlike the former, never sunk below 7/10 in his oeuvre (although I'm not all that fond of To the Lighthouse, I'll acknowledge its contextual merit)

>> No.5083363

>>5083346
oh do please stop projecting (if you are)

It's possible to enjoy finnagains wake, I assure you. Even more than ulysses.

>> No.5083364

>Ctrl+f
>no Hermann Hesse

What the fuck /lit/?

>> No.5083367

>>5083346
Why do yo think so? why is it upsetting to think that someone could enjoy something you dont have the faculties/refinement to enjoy

I am quad lingual, so maybe that helps

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And he's still alive too.

>> No.5083373

>>5083364
Steppenwolf is mediocre.

>> No.5083375

>>5083206
He's probably written way too much for you to have realistically read it all.

>> No.5083384

>>5083330
Except I'm serious. A bunch of hyper-sexual gigantic women who are all virgins, only seeing the light when some criminal forcibly fucks them? It's absurd, and not in an interesting way.

>> No.5083400

Kakfa's style made it so it was not possible for him to make a bad book

>> No.5083403

>>5083384
How much of Vonnegut's have you read? Because Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, et al. are all exceptionally good.

>> No.5083406

>>5083206
PKD is one of my favorite writers, but he definitely wrote some stinkers.

>> No.5083411

>>5083357
this meme really doesn't work

>> No.5083412

>>5083220
The only good book Steinbeck wrote was Mice of Men and that was a novella.

Grapes of Wrath was just bad all around and East of Eden was good up until when the ending made me want to go back in time and rape his children. Fuck that stupid fucking ending.

>> No.5083414

george rr martin

>> No.5083415

>>5083403
Only that collection of short stories. Had to read harrison bergeron in high school, and I enjoyed it. Decided I'd try out his other stuff, and what better than the collection which contained that story. Read everything in WTTMH, and was not fond of most of it. To be fair, I have not read any of his novels - but the point remains - not everything of his is so stellar.

>> No.5083420

Stirner Check mate

>> No.5083428

pooshkin

>> No.5083448

>>5083357
Never read him, despite having read all of Dostoevksy, and many other Russian authors.

Where do you think it's best to start with the Count?

>> No.5083453

>>5083448
the death of ivan ilyich -> war and peace -> anna karenina

>> No.5083570

Charles Portis

>> No.5083713

>>5083412
What was so bad about the ending?

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>>5083280

Jailbird.

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>> No.5084146

>>5083280
Easy, read Player Piano.

So bad not even infographics care about it
>>5083770