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>Your favorite author dies

>> No.5782721
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5782721

>reading books from authors who are still a live in the first place

>> No.5782724

>>5782721

here we go...

>> No.5782735

>>5782721
>reading books in the first place

>> No.5782736

>>5782735
>reading

>> No.5782738

>>5782736
>ing

>> No.5782741

I'm ruining it, but this was epic.

>> No.5782742

jokes on you OP my favorite author died 2,400 years ago

>> No.5782748

>>5782738
>in

>> No.5782763

>>5782748
>

>> No.5782777

>>5782719
>tfw when pynchon, mccarthy, rushdie and eco are all near death

>> No.5782778

12 Sept 2008 ;_;

>> No.5782782

>>5782763

>> No.5782783

>>5782778
i'm glad he's dead

>> No.5782785

>>5782777

>tfw no trips

>> No.5782787

John Green is dead? Aw, who is going to write those teen-romance copy-pasta books anymore

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>>5782783

>> No.5782790

>>5782787
i hoped this was true
why anon why

>> No.5782795

>>5782789
Epic.

>> No.5782798

>>5782777
>tfw when pynchon, mccarthy, rushdie and eco are all near death
Says who?

>>5782790
so edgy wishing death on an author you've never read

>> No.5782797

>>5782783
why anon? not a fan?
>inb4 no discenible talent

>> No.5782801

>>5782741
epic4thewin?

>> No.5782803

>>5782801
ye

>> No.5782806

>>5782795
it's still shitposting, etc...

>> No.5782807

>>5782798
>eco 82
>mccarthy 81
>pynchon 77
>rushdie 67

rushdie's the youngest and he at best has 15 years left

>> No.5782811

>>5782806
I would hang this thread in a museum anon

>> No.5782816

>>5782719
PD James is your favourite author?

>> No.5782826

>>578278

>> No.5782867

>>5782816

yep, I'm a genre fiction pleb

>> No.5783051

Thomas Pynchon
May 8, 1937 - February 22, 2018

>> No.5783118

>>5782721
>a live

>> No.5783121

>>5783118
That was the best part of this thread, dude.

>> No.5783125

I can't wait till that faggot Brett Easton Ellis dies from a coke overdose

>> No.5783134

I am indifferent. How do people manage to care about the deaths of people they have no actual relationship with?

>> No.5783143

>>5783134
You do sort of form relationships with artists, though.

>> No.5783147

>>5783134
You should then take the weight of all the deaths in the world upon yourself with the passing of a loved one, anon, as a sort of obeisance

>> No.5783148

>>5783143
You form relationships with their works. Not with the person.

>> No.5783151

>>5783143
Truth. I consider J.K. Rowling almost a second mother to me.

captcha: skirt...

>> No.5783152

>this many people believed Ron Paul is dead without double-checking it
You non-skeptical plebeians

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>>5782778
:(

>> No.5783252

Gabriel García Márquez died several months ago and there wasn't even a sticky

>> No.5783312

>>5783252
He's overrated

>> No.5783347

>>5783312
Yes, but who isn't.

He was great.

>> No.5783359

>>5783252
There are never stickies on /lit/. There were, however, two threads dedicated to him that both reached the bump limit

>> No.5783380

>>5783312
He's not

>> No.5783382

Gene Wolfe will never die. He will attach his head to one of his slaves bodies.

>> No.5783406

>>5783359
There was one for a SF writer at least once IIRC

>> No.5783450

>>5783172
lol DFW is such a pokemon

>> No.5783462

My favorite author is God and he's forever eternal. Suck it lib.

>> No.5783465

>>5783462
They tried to kill him once and he came back with a great book deal with merchandising rights thrown in.

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>>5783462
lol get a load of this fag

>> No.5783637

>>5783151
what a pleb
Look at him and mourn over his plebness