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Anonymous Wed Nov 12 21:52:15 2014 No.5717907 [Reply] [Original]

http://www.strawpoll.me/2980686

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 21:54:55 2014 No.5717917 I voted for all of them

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 21:56:33 2014 No.5717924 I don't know much about Dosty or his books Why is he so liked on /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:06:21 2014 No.5717954 >>5717924 Everyone used to like him. Then they saw people on reddit liked him too. Now everyone on lit hates him and says he's for plebs

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:07:13 2014 No.5717956 >>5717954 Did you even look at the poll

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:08:40 2014 No.5717965 >>5717956 >not realizing people are voting ironically I mean, John Donne 2%? TOP KEK

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:09:52 2014 No.5717971 >>5717954 This is something that someone actually believes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:11:50 2014 No.5717975 >>5717965 No one here reads poetry from before the 19th century (except epic poetry)

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:14:40 2014 No.5717979 Doesn't "aren't shit" mean "worthless". You aren't shit nigger. = You are worthless my good man.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:15:20 2014 No.5717981 The only poets from before the 19th century that /lit/ cares about are Homer, Dante and Milton. MAYBE Vergil and Ovid too. For Shakespeare we only care about his plays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:19:32 2014 No.5717999 >>5717979 "You are shit" means worthless, too though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:21:06 2014 No.5718002 why the fuck has steinbeck received so many votes?

>>	Anonymoose Wed Nov 12 22:22:28 2014 No.5718005 >>5717981 No Donne :(

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:24:06 2014 No.5718013 >>5718002 4chan is an American website.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:31:42 2014 No.5718029 >>5718002 I find it hard to dislike Steinbeck. I say this as a yurop in clapistan. He's so sincere, even if he is a tad thick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:33:25 2014 No.5718032 >>5718002 >"OMG I read Steinbeck in high school, he is therefore objectively shit"

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:34:58 2014 No.5718035 >Donne near last place why, never realized how pleb this board was. in fairness i hardly come here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:35:07 2014 No.5718036 >>5718032 He's not bad but not as good as most of the other writers listed

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:38:46 2014 No.5718051 >>5718035 donne is hardly that good apart from a few poems and sermons

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:39:03 2014 No.5718053 >>5718032 >OMG I'm a fat stupid american that thinks mediocre american authors are read in schools anywhere but the US

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 22:41:11 2014 No.5718059 >>5718053 I'm a fit European who resides in Europe. Calm down.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 23:03:00 2014 No.5718136 >>5718059 pics or gtfo euroscum

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 23:22:54 2014 No.5718210 >>5718136 >>>/b/ >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 23:31:43 2014 No.5718243 >>5718051 Sophocles is not great except for a handful of plays

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 23:32:46 2014 No.5718248 >>5718243 All of his plays that I've read are great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 12 23:36:08 2014 No.5718261 >>5718243 compared to euripides that's right. it's sad that his most famous plays (theban) are his worst.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 01:26:42 2014 No.5718592 motherfucking dosto is gonna win this thing, can someone explain why

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 01:35:54 2014 No.5718616 The only writer to ever exist who isn't shit is Tao Lin

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 01:44:51 2014 No.5718627 File: 1.75 MB, 640x360, 9ec[1].gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5718592 Because only us high class, cultured, and sophisticated types transcend the mediocrity of the sophomoric crowd on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 05:27:07 2014 No.5719122 >>5718261 antigone and oedipus rex are brilliant, it's only at colonus which brings the "trilogy" down

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 05:30:22 2014 No.5719133 Hemingway - 63 votes Homer - 61 votes hrrrnnnnnnnngh

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 05:56:06 2014 No.5719201 File: 27 KB, 454x600, 12897530357685.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Dostoyevsky uber alles >Hemmmingway is as good as Tolstoy >Steinbeck better than Proust >Umberto Eco is a shit writer >/lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 05:58:57 2014 No.5719208 Guys, Joyce is really not that good. I know we like to joke around here and have fun, but sometimes we need to turn it down a notch and get shit done.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 06:02:39 2014 No.5719221 >>5717975 Nobody here reads anything but modernist and contemporary literature with a little Russian lit and a few epics for spice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 11:57:46 2014 No.5720037 why do peopl even like dostoevsky he's literally the most bombastic christian preachy shit ever

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 11:58:47 2014 No.5720040 >>5719208 >tfw nabokov is better than joyce

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 12:04:40 2014 No.5720058 >Hemmingway above Proust. What fucking heresy is this?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 12:05:12 2014 No.5720060 >>5720037 >muh russian soul >muh human condition >muh mysticism

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 17:50:48 2014 No.5721148 >Tao Lin got almost 40 whole votes you should all be ashamed of yourselves. this poll is fucking depressing

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:00:51 2014 No.5721194 >>5720058 oless people on the board have read proust than hemingway? shocker

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:03:53 2014 No.5721209 >>5717907 >http://www.strawpoll.me/2980686 >shakespeare is the highest nice to see everyone still has their euro-centric higschool influence still working in their heads. god forbid we have our own opinions

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:11:10 2014 No.5721237 >>5721209 Your opinions are shit, you really can't be angry at others for that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:13:57 2014 No.5721249 >>5721209 >euro-centric Yep, euro people are bad. The best writers in the world are africans, dem negroes so smart and creative!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:15:58 2014 No.5721260 >>5721209 >eurocentric oh come on. who do you want to see, confucius and ooga mabooga?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:18:54 2014 No.5721275 >>5721209 >mad because people don't agree with him >"god forbid we have our own opinions"

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:21:43 2014 No.5721290 >>5721209 Who would you choose that is on the level of shakespeare and that isn't a eurocentric choice .

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 18:30:10 2014 No.5721329 Why is Houellebecq not on here? He's literally the Dostoevsky of our age.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 19:36:39 2014 No.5721625 >>5718243 he has like 8 surviving plays doofus

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 13 19:44:52 2014 No.5721671 File: 98 KB, 640x480, 1414237937591.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Do you ever slam a book against a wall once you finish reading it?