ITT: Authors you cannot stand. Someone loses all credibility with me if I hear them say that they enjoy reading Jane Austen or either of the Bronte sisters.

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Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:35:47 2014 No.5918328 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Authors you cannot stand.

Someone loses all credibility with me if I hear them say that they enjoy reading Jane Austen or either of the Bronte sisters.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:36:43 2014 No.5918332 >>5918328 these two don't count nobody can stand female authors

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:40:11 2014 No.5918344 >>5918332 Steinbeck is another I cannot stand. I find his books extremely boring and have yet to finish a single one of his novels.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:41:38 2014 No.5918347 >>5918344 if you don't like austen, brontes, steinbeck you probably don't really like books very much try sticking with tom clancy or something

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:42:41 2014 No.5918354 >>5918347 > likes Female authors > likes Steinbeck And you're accusing someone else of not liking real books? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:44:37 2014 No.5918358 File: 51 KB, 340x275, cry laughi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918347 > enjoys Austen and the Brontes

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:45:03 2014 No.5918361 >>5918328 Whenever I hear the name August Derleth I am filled with rage at what he did to Lovecraft's mythos, then I feel guilty because without him Lovecraft might have been forgotten today. Jane Austen is among my top ten favorite authors

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:46:13 2014 No.5918365 Easton Ellis. I read American Psycho and it was alright. Got about halfway through Glamorama and had to stop. Tried some of his other works and realized that it wasn't just Glamorama that was shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:46:28 2014 No.5918368 >>5918361 Aw he was a cool guy. He sucked at writing but he appreciated it at least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:47:15 2014 No.5918371 >>5918354 Great Tu Quoque, bruh

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:48:20 2014 No.5918379 Stephen King, Charles Dickens, and Victor Hugo

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:48:37 2014 No.5918380 I liked the fault of our stars film but John Green's vlog, wtf He acts all sxe phil peppy but he's 40, just weird

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:58:40 2014 No.5918401 >>5918380 > liking tween age crap Did you like Twilight too?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:59:26 2014 No.5918405 >>5918379 I shouldn't have scrolled over the spoiler

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:59:41 2014 No.5918406 Charlotte > Jane or Emily, fucking plebs itt

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:03:44 2014 No.5918419 >>5918406 > reading female authors at all

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:04:12 2014 No.5918422 >>5918401 How's about you go fuck yourself

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:05:32 2014 No.5918425 >>5918422 Man, we got an angsty teen here who thinks The Fault in our Stars and The Catcher in the Rye are the best books ever.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:07:29 2014 No.5918430 Vonnegut is complete trash

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:09:29 2014 No.5918442 Pynchon, Joyce, DFW

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:33:51 2014 No.5918527 Palahniuk. Fans are few and far between, but when they do come up, I avoid them like the plague.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:36:13 2014 No.5918532 This thread is now about female writers being shit and having never written anything worthwhile >almost 2015 >not hating everything written by subhuman trash same applies for blacks and poor people generally btw DEBATE ME

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:36:52 2014 No.5918533 >>5918430 Absolutely but he gets people into reading

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:36:59 2014 No.5918535 >>5918532 /pol/ please fuck off

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:37:05 2014 No.5918536 >>5918532 nah you're totally right man

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:39:12 2014 No.5918543 >>5918536 >>5918535 Trust me on this, proud male brehs, I spend my time on 4chan, I know what is worthwhile in life.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:43:18 2014 No.5918552 All of them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:44:54 2014 No.5918560 >>5918552 this, I only come to /lit/ to tell people who read YA that they're edgy

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:46:37 2014 No.5918564 Going with the obvious Tao Lin.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:55:30 2014 No.5918593

>>5918425
You don't have many friends, I'm guessing.
It is possible to enjoy things for what they are, you know.
The Expendables is a dumb action movie, but I still enjoyed it.
If you don't go into everything expecting it to be 'Citizen Kane' you'll probably enjoy it.
Christ.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:58:41 2014 No.5918610 >>5918593 The Expendables was terrible even for dumb action fodder.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 13:58:56 2014 No.5918611 >>5918380 I can't understand your teenybopper slang.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:00:17 2014 No.5918615 Bukowski >muh women

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:02:42 2014 No.5918629 >>5918610 I second this opinion.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:03:40 2014 No.5918633 >>5918615 Semenal.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:09:39 2014 No.5918658 >Not liking "Wuthering Heights" Kill yourselves, faggots.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:12:31 2014 No.5918669 >>5918354 >Tu Quoque >>5918371 got em

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:13:24 2014 No.5918673 >>5918658 I was written by a woman, though?!? Are you being sarcastic?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:14:07 2014 No.5918675 >>5918673 >I was written by a woman Deep.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:14:36 2014 No.5918680 >>5918615 yeah, Bukowski is a shitty edgelord of edgyteens

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:15:23 2014 No.5918681 File: 191 KB, 351x351, 1414350103427.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918442 I too enjoy the great meymers but personally I'd say William Burroughs and Joseph Conrad

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:15:27 2014 No.5918682 >>5918328 Why? Those are legitimately good authors. What's wrong with them?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:15:47 2014 No.5918683 File: 9 KB, 230x230, 1417909404249.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918332 >>5918354 >>5918419 >>5918532 >>5918543 >>5918673 >Am I offending anyone yet? /pol/ please

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:16:43 2014 No.5918687

>>5918328
camus. i can take someone that loves salinger, but when someone loves camus i instantly start thinking they are probably the type that thinks they have it all right in the world, like they understand everything on another level so that everyone else is a dumbass compared to them. camus was a fraud, stop following this shitty trend.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:18:02 2014 No.5918692 File: 4 KB, 132x184, 1234175768678.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918687 >camus >fraud pick one

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:18:07 2014 No.5918694

Flannery O'Conner is one of the best American authors of all times. Here's a list of male authors that have a higher stock than her but aren't as good:

Updike
DFW
Steinbeck
Fitzgerald
Vonnegut
Hemingway
You guys get the drift.

And while we're at it, she's marginally better than Munro.
In any case, it really bothers me when men think women can't write.

I'm a catholic girl from Atlanta so I might be a little biased.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:19:27 2014 No.5918698

>>5918675
>dat Freudian slip in trying to denigrate the contribution of women to mankind
>mfw I disavow and repress being brought into the world by an unconditional love from my mother
>mfw realizing that women can be wonderful is so traumatizing to the way I currently perceive (and derive a surplus of jouissance from) the world and interpersonal relationships that it remains unconscious until I reveal my latent and fundamental desire to love and be loved by a woman when posting on a motif-weaving Somalian bread
>mfw I traversed the fundamental phantasy
>mfw space has opened up for symbolic and and hence subjective reconstitution

THANK YOU 4CHAN I OWE YOU EVERYTHING

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:19:56 2014 No.5918701

>>5918687
I respect Camus as an author (a tad 2deep4u, though) but his philosophy is so, "Well, duh." The Myth of Sisyphus is the most drawn-out snoozefest ever, the last paragraph could have been the entire essay but instead he spends a hundred pages nooding around Kafka and shit like it means anything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:20:40 2014 No.5918703 File: 78 KB, 900x900, 1415594708486.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918694 >Flannery O'Conner >Souther Gothic novels pig disgusting

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:21:10 2014 No.5918706 >>5918698 >jouissance You sound 'educated'.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:22:14 2014 No.5918709 >>5918706 I try to.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:22:56 2014 No.5918716
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Okay, there's been a fair bit of misogyny in this thread. Don't get me wrong I'm all for that. However, this does make me realize I've actually read little to nothing from female authors.

Who are actual good female authors to start with? Are there any?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:24:06 2014 No.5918720 >>5918716 The Odyssey, according to some.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:25:44 2014 No.5918723 >>5918716 I've enjoyed reading Woolf and O'Connor immensely. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say that on here, though. I'm sorry /r9k/

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:26:45 2014 No.5918727 File: 1.39 MB, 2300x4000, latest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918716 Check the lists, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:32:23 2014 No.5918745 >>5918727 list isn't in alphabetical order wtf

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:33:38 2014 No.5918747 >>5918745 It's in chronological order. Couldn't you tell?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:33:44 2014 No.5918750 >>5918694 O'Connor You silly goon

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:35:40 2014 No.5918754 >>5918750 flannery oconner is a chick? lol i thought she was one of those dudes with a chick name like tracy marrow

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:36:17 2014 No.5918756 >>5918723 everyone likes woolf

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:36:53 2014 No.5918757 >>5918756 No, she's a hack according to this board.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:44:12 2014 No.5918773 >>5918754 Yeah, haha. I was saying that her name has an O, not an E.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:46:46 2014 No.5918781 I don't care how shit the book is, if it's not Moby Dick it's better than Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:51:48 2014 No.5918797 Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:53:16 2014 No.5918801 Tom Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:54:44 2014 No.5918806 Anything read in highschool, or by women, or by blacks, or by the generally uneducated people

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:57:33 2014 No.5918816 Nathaniel Hawthorne. I absolutely hated The Scarlett Letter.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:01:36 2014 No.5918833 >>5918422 >being that mad

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:05:46 2014 No.5918852 >>5918716 Jane Austen Tove Jansson Selma Lagerlöf The Bronte sisters Mary Shelley Margaret Atwood

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:09:05 2014 No.5918865 File: 167 KB, 1024x1365, moomintroll_is_not_amused_by_kol98-d6tyfei.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918852 > Tove Jansson good lord. what is wrong with you? are you some kind of barbarian?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:11:17 2014 No.5918872 >>5918865 No no, you misunderstand, that was my answer to anon's request for good female authors.

>>	Look at this faggot OP and his(...) Sun Dec 28 15:13:22 2014 No.5918878 File: 283 KB, 480x600, tipp.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918872 >Margaret Atwood >good

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:15:40 2014 No.5918889 File: 22 KB, 500x596, moomin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918872 well. alright then

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:25:04 2014 No.5918912 People who dislike Austen are the biggest plebs on the face of the planet who deserve to be exterminated.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:34:00 2014 No.5918940 >>5918593 you seem to be new here, friend

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:37:15 2014 No.5918946 >>5918716 Shirley Jackson is decent. Just finished her book The Haunting of Hill House last night. Not bad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:38:43 2014 No.5918952 >>5918912 0/10 troll

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:39:42 2014 No.5918955 >>5918946 genre pleb pls go

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:42:37 2014 No.5919393 >>5918328 anybody with any feminist sympathy loses any credit for me

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:59:57 2014 No.5919482 >>5918727 literally who?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:06:52 2014 No.5919525 Nietzsche Nicholas Gomez Davila

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:10:10 2014 No.5919538 >>5918332 >>5918354 >>5918358 >>5918419 >>5918532 >>5918532 >>5918952 Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf? Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:49:33 2014 No.5919710 >>5918328 I never take issue with authors, I take issue with how and why people like or dislike them. For instance, right now you're looking like a massive faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:11:34 2014 No.5919830 what an awful thread i should take a break

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:11:59 2014 No.5919831 >>5918328 there are 3 Bronte sisters (I know most people only read C and E, just saying) those three are really such different authors not liking Wuthering Heights I guess I can get, but what Austen or Charlotte Brontes have you read?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:12:49 2014 No.5919838 how can you even write a novel when you're vagina's bleeding constantly and shit, something smells fishy in here

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:14:26 2014 No.5919847

I don't really ever hear him brought up as being read outside of high school
but I h8ted Nathaniel Hawthorne (specifically, The Scarlet Letter, I think I liked some of his short stories a little more) and couldn't believe we had to read someone so shitty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:18:47 2014 No.5919876 >>5918912 agreed esp people who love to say how much they hate Austen bc they think it's slightly more subtle than saying "You know what, I think women can't write."

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:18:51 2014 No.5919877 >>5919831 >not liking Wuthering Heights I guess I can get I guess you're a pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:22:02 2014 No.5919900 >>5918328 Dostojevsky. I've read less manipulative journalism. In UK sunday papers.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:22:19 2014 No.5919902

>>5919877
noo I love it, just saying it's not as polished as Vilette or Austen

most of these authors have good works that I've read/liked and I'm a DFW fanboi, but when you see a dude listing their favs as the Beats, Bukowski, DFW, Camus and they're older than 20 it's a sign you have a know nothing shitboy on yr hands

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:33:05 2014 No.5919967 >>5918716 I really enjoyed the one book Arhundati Roy has written this far, but never seen it mentioned around here

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 19:39:41 2014 No.5919990

>>5919967
I was going to start a thread after reading GoST
bc there have been three pretty popular books where South Asian twins are separated and I wasn't sure if that was a coincidence or not (God of Small Things, White Teeth, The Lowlands)
kind of think Smith was cribbing off of GoST, or is there an older tradition of this as a plot device?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 20:48:30 2014 No.5920306 >>5918532 Woolf is good

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 20:50:27 2014 No.5920319 George R R Martin

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:34:58 2014 No.5921978

>>5919990
I hadn't thought about it in relation to White Teeth, but it's an interesting point. However, My gut reaction is that it is just a coincidence in cultures with strong family ties and social structures, meeting a more diversified and modern world.

Haven't read the Lowland, but will check out

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:39:27 2014 No.5921986 >>5919900 Nabokov pls

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:41:38 2014 No.5921990 File: 99 KB, 350x399, this one.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918716 susanna clarke

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:44:59 2014 No.5921998 DFW When someone tells me that Infinite Jest was "so deep" and gargles his balls I just want to slap them in the fucking face. He's a hack.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:46:21 2014 No.5922001 Any female author. Only acceptable one is Shelly. Frankenstein was written by a man anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:51:02 2014 No.5922009 >>5920319 pleb I have the exact same reaction towards people who can't stand Martin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:52:27 2014 No.5922012 >>5920306 she is a very untypical female writer, she is good because she wrote like a man

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 04:53:10 2014 No.5922014 >>5918328 people who don't like austen are turboplebs

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:00:47 2014 No.5922024 >>5922012 pardon? she was criticized for being too 'feminine', what kind of rewrite of history is this, or is this b8?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:06:50 2014 No.5922031 I really don't think Charles Dickens is that good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:08:28 2014 No.5922033 >>5922024 it doesn't matter what her contemporaries criticized her for

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:12:24 2014 No.5922039

>>5922033
She's the worst example of 'masculine' writing I've ever heard. Isn't that 'compliment' usually saved for Joan Didion or Flannery O, not that it applies to either of them. Is your masculinity so fragile that you can't say a bitch writes well without saying it's because she wrote like a man?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:13:44 2014 No.5922042 Writers that try to insert Christian apologetics into their works

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:20:53 2014 No.5922057 >>5918698 >reading Lacan

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:27:03 2014 No.5922067 you dont like girls anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:29:45 2014 No.5922072 >>5922033 WHAT MATTERS IS OUR PLAN

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:35:01 2014 No.5922081 >>5922039 it's rather your placing a lesbian as a pinnacle of femininity is funny

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 05:38:42 2014 No.5922086 >>5918781 This might actually be the worst opinion I've ever seen on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:03:23 2014 No.5922125 >>5918615 >>5918680 This. Fucking talentless rat

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:07:29 2014 No.5922133 >>5918425 He rapes his sister.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:08:25 2014 No.5922136 >>5918716 Duras

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:11:48 2014 No.5922144 >>5918328 Baudelaire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:29:40 2014 No.5922179 >>5922125 Why don't you like Bukowski? >>5919525 Why don't you like Nietzsche? >>5918681 Why don't you like Burroughs?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:32:07 2014 No.5922184 >>5922144 Bad tastes general?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:32:26 2014 No.5922185 Kate Chopin

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Mon Dec 29 06:34:20 2014 No.5922190 >>5922184 frenchman detected :3

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 06:43:12 2014 No.5922210

>>5922184
I don't really like edgy authors who are worship for no specific reasons.
Furthermore, he was largely inferior to some of his contemporaries

>>5922190
I am too, but apparently you can't touch Baudelaire
I never understood why he was idolized this much

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:11:11 2014 No.5922269
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Guys, here is the actual first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, I swear to god I'm not making it up:

>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

LOL

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Mon Dec 29 07:17:59 2014 No.5922287 >>5922269 if you set loose an actual crocodile she would probably slowly crawl to a warm spot and lie there for the rest of the party, it's not a panther or something to jump to and fro, crocodiles are full of self-respect

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:26:20 2014 No.5922305 >>5922287 if some inbred drunken Ivan rapes you anally ill praise that man

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:28:14 2014 No.5922312 Any American

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:28:25 2014 No.5922313 Wuthering heights is great you pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:28:57 2014 No.5922315 >>5922269 >It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single anon in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a gf.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:30:44 2014 No.5922319 >>5922269 that's like a perfect sentence, basically you'd have to be tone deaf to not like it austen is a god tier stylist, one of the best in english

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:32:24 2014 No.5922323 >>5922312 epic

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:34:56 2014 No.5922325 File: 102 KB, 706x674, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5922319 >One of the best in English

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:36:12 2014 No.5922328 >>5922325 there's a reason other incredible stylists, like henry james and nabokov, knew she was hot shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:36:39 2014 No.5922330 >:^) Epik

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:37:40 2014 No.5922334 >>5922330 FUCKING EPICCCCCC MAN XXXXDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:39:31 2014 No.5922338 Submit

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:41:21 2014 No.5922342 >>5922325 there's a reason other incredible stylists, like henry james and nabokov, knew she was hot shit

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 07:44:57 2014 No.5922350

>>5922342
Honestly she might have been but if I was going to read something boring I barely care about for the prose I would crack the other McElroy book I have. The post your responding to is the only thing I've posted ITT but I still am not a fan of Austen at all. I just can't care.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 09:44:43 2014 No.5922737 File: 41 KB, 197x204, 1412533499199.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5922269 >It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 09:58:33 2014 No.5922763

>>5922210
>I don't really like edgy authors who are worship for no specific reasons.
>who are worship for no specific reasons.
>a guy who wrote a book of poems and his acclaimed for the poems that are in this book
>worship for no specific reason
>worship

Something tells me you shouldn't be answering to those threads.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:10:38 2014 No.5922794 >>5922269 prose is good, content is whimsical with a detached irony that sets the stage what's not to like?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:13:33 2014 No.5922803 Buk (just ham on the rye and get over it) Camus Bradbury Hesse (to be fair it takes a while to get tired of him) but when it comes it comes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:20:57 2014 No.5922822 >>5918694 >catholic girl hey c-can we maybe get coffee after church sometime?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 10:24:45 2014 No.5922831 jane austen was probably smarter than anyone on this board right now. everyday i live in pain knowing that i will never have a chance to go on a date with her and hear her speak funny things.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 11:38:22 2014 No.5923039 >>5922012 Dude. Agatha Christie? C'mon, don't be sexist. S'not cool. Also Tim Winton is a turboweeb - his books are better served as kindling.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 13:33:42 2014 No.5923497 >>5922831 I think a lot of anons itt/the board have non sense of humor so they don't get Austen. >>5922012 the most insane dumb post

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 13:55:17 2014 No.5923568 >>5922269 >he doesn't understand irony

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:16:53 2014 No.5923645 >>5918532 >Women Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf >Blacks Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison >Poor people Did you mean "most authors?"

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:18:16 2014 No.5923654 >>5918532 if you don't like jane austen or emily dickinson you are just a pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:19:29 2014 No.5923662 >>5918716 Carson McCullers

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:22:06 2014 No.5923677 >>5922185 Gonna have to disagree with you there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:23:37 2014 No.5923682 >>5922822 I'm on 4chan. Think about it, would you really go on a date with a girl from 4chan?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:24:51 2014 No.5923685 >>5918716 virginia woolf

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:25:40 2014 No.5923691 >>5923682 y-yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:26:28 2014 No.5923694 >>5923682 >catholic weeb landwhale not even once

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:35:17 2014 No.5923726 >>5918757 According to some vocal retards who haven't actually read her, you mean

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 14:35:47 2014 No.5923727

>>5918615
>muh alcoholism
>>5918658
Healthcliff as a character telegraphed every future goddamn arc within the first 50 pages. That's no fault of the writer, these themes have been repeated, but along with that superficially tedious prose, fuck that book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 15:39:54 2014 No.5923961 >>5918328 Someone loses all credibility with me for the duration of the thread when they type out posts like these.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 16:40:10 2014 No.5924196 isn't Ursula K. le Guin a good female author? I haven't read her, but I have the word for world is forest and I've been meaning to read it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 16:50:16 2014 No.5924240 I've never read a book that I've enjoyed

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:03:18 2014 No.5924297

>>5923654
Shit, what if I like Jane Austen but hate Emily Dickinson? Can't I legitimately hate shit like

A bird came down the walk
He did not know I saw
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw?

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass
And then hopped sidewise, to the wall
To let a [something] pass.

Yes, I memorized that one 20 years ago and still remember most of it--that's how much I hate Dickinson.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:04:18 2014 No.5924303 >>5924297 Oh, I remember: To let a beetle pass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:21:00 2014 No.5924366 >>5924196 Yes, she's really good. I haven't read that book though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:26:46 2014 No.5924391 >>5924297 it was written by a shy female housewife therefore it has a deep hidden meaning which you cannot see and should be studied and appreciated as a sign of women fighting against male oppression

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:29:45 2014 No.5924405 >>5924391 Oh, STFU. Calling Dickinson a housewife...I hate you even more than I hate her.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:29:45 2014 No.5924406 >>5918797 why dostojewsky?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:30:53 2014 No.5924412 >>5924405 she was one

>>	H.Q.S.S.G Mon Dec 29 17:32:52 2014 No.5924422 File: 14 KB, 200x252, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5924405 >a wife >that never left her house What else would you call her you silly faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:33:59 2014 No.5924427 >>5922179 He's taken seriously as a philosopher when everything he wrote was an alcoholic-tier barstool aphorism and his opinion, and then he tried to use that style as some sort of self-referential justification for it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:34:09 2014 No.5924428 >>5924412 >>5924422 She was a spinster, you morons.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:36:13 2014 No.5924437 >>5924428 >>5924412 >>5924422 If there had been a /lit/ in those days, she would have been Butterfly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:40:32 2014 No.5924459 File: 124 KB, 546x700, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918532

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:40:56 2014 No.5924460 >>5924427 word also, nothing more pathetic than a grown man who's a fan boy, esp. one who tries to play his own drinking problems and failure with women (and writing/whatever art form they're failing at) as something romantic

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:41:16 2014 No.5924463 >>5924428 how do you call her then, housespinster?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:41:41 2014 No.5924465 >>5918328 Ayn Rand, but I think that goes without saying

>>	H.Q.S.S.G Mon Dec 29 17:44:07 2014 No.5924476 File: 945 KB, 2800x1622, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5924428 that's what history wants you to think read a book and stop being ignorant

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 17:45:20 2014 No.5924484 File: 42 KB, 640x567, 1399350302602.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5924463 Spinkikomori.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:31:14 2014 No.5924763

>>5918347
>>5922014
>>5922269
>>5922319
>>5922831
>>5923654
I’ve suffered through half of both Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. Reading Jane Austen is like reading the diary of an uncreative, unwed woman attempting to vicariously live a life of marriage and (this has to be, thanks to Austen, one of the most disgusting words in the English dictionary) “prudence”, as it pertains to social and moral sensibility, through lifeless characters that read like personifications of powdered doilies. Mark Twain said this of Jane Austen, and I couldn’t agree more:

>"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

>>5918694
I suppose that being a southern, Catholic female gives you some sense of solidarity with O’Conner, but I am legitimately baffled by anyone who would venture to say that O’Conner is one of the greatest American authors. I’ve read Wise Blood and several of her short stories. There was nothing enjoyable about them. Her satire revolves around heavy-handedly criticizing caricatures of anyone who lies outside of the Christian fold by creating gross, stupid, hyperbolic characters whose emotions are easy to manipulate and basically all of the high-modernists (especially Joyce) who are interested in the novel for its own sake. All of the authors you listed are better stylists than O’Conner.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:21:17 2014 No.5925795 >>5924297 read the heart asks pleasure first

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:34:39 2014 No.5925836

people who hate jane austen just aren't interested in reading about 19th century english domestic affairs. that's fine, but recognize your reasoning is basically the same as people who hate lolita because it's about a pedophile, who hate madame bovary because "there are no relatable characters". you hate jane austen because you can't relate to the topics she wrote about. it has nothing to do with her aesthetic value. it has nothing to do with her incredibly unique and private style that prefigures the most important innovations in the novel 50 years before they became standard, nothing to do with her character creation skills which are wonderful, nothing to do with her wonderful sense of humor, nothing to do with her marvelous balancing of plot elements into a well woven fabric.

there's a reason why austen was used by people like henry james, edmund wilson, and others as a litmus test for determining people who actually read for the aesthetic experience from people who don't know much at all. there's a reason she was thought as possibly the most "high art" of the english novelists. she wrote masterpieces, machined them over, yet made them seem effortless. she was a genius. one of the greatest english novelists

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:36:54 2014 No.5925845 >>5925836 tldr: she is a woman so she is praised by academia

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:39:47 2014 No.5925861 >>5925845 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_history_of_Jane_Austen jane austen survives because the most upper class, patrician white men possible saved her work from the whips and scorns of time by praising it as high art

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:42:04 2014 No.5925870 >>5925861 patrician white kinghts

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:43:39 2014 No.5925875 >>5925870 epik

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:05:13 2014 No.5925938 >>5925795 God. Fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:06:03 2014 No.5925941 >>5925938 what a strange reaction

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:19:19 2014 No.5925992 >>5925875 I would have like to have gotten a piece of Austen too.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:32:28 2014 No.5926035

>>5918716
If you're interested in mental health, Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted", is the female equivalent of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

Other than that, there's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Atlas Shrugged, The Haunting of Hill House, To Kill a Mockingbird, Interview with the Vampire, and The Secret Life of Bees. I'm sure you can find something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:47:34 2014 No.5926077 >>5926035 >good female authors >ayn rand no

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:53:57 2014 No.5926094 Mark Twain

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:56:01 2014 No.5926099 >>5918328 Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a band name

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:57:02 2014 No.5926102 >>5926094 >female

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:58:24 2014 No.5926111 >>5926102 >thinks this is a female authors thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 00:54:50 2014 No.5926322 >>5918532 Mary Shelley SAPPHO you lose /thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 01:58:26 2014 No.5926515 the defending of Jane Austen itt is warming my heart people who go out of their way to loudly declare they hate Austen just comes off as a tool

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 02:02:37 2014 No.5926526 >>5918328 Hitler

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 02:10:13 2014 No.5926541 /lit/ has turned into the worst board why cant you people just accept people have different taste? if you dont like it, who cares? you arent superior for preferring one piece of entertainment over another smh

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 02:11:55 2014 No.5926545

>>5924763
You sound like you have no sense of humor or irony and just don't pick up on a lot of what Austen and O'Conner are writing about. Austen is some of the least 'dusty' of all 19th century lit. Also, O'Connor was writing as an outsider bc she was Roman Catholic in the South, not just 'Christian'.
Some of those writers are on the same level as Flannery, but they're doing different things. No one is better than ya girl at what she does.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 02:12:19 2014 No.5926546 >>5922269 ITS FUCKING SATIRE YOU STUPID CUNT AUSTEN IS ONE OF THE MASTER SATIRISTS ITT PEOPLE WHO HAVENT READ OR UNDERSTOOD THE BOOKS CRITICIZING IM LAFFIN SO HARD /pol/ NEEDS TO FUCK OFF

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 02:23:06 2014 No.5926571

I've noticed that people who really dislike Austen tend to have really bad senses of humor. Which makes it especially weird that Twain hated Austen since he's hilarious. Anyway if you don't laugh out loud at Mr. Bennett you can fuck right off in my book

I lose respect for people if they like Dan Brown, Chuck Palahniuk, or if they make a big deal out of liking Bukowski.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 04:11:48 2014 No.5926754 >>5922269 Kek. I read the first page and deleted it off my phone long ago. Glad to see someone else thinking that shit is trash.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 04:14:45 2014 No.5926761 >>5926546 >I was only pretending to write dogshit. :^D Pretending to be retarded is still retarded. Pretending to be a bad writer is still being a bad writer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 04:15:22 2014 No.5926762 I am forever angry at Patrick Tilley for the 7 book long cocktease that is The Amtrak Wars

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 04:39:34 2014 No.5926812 >>5922287 Go back to your swamp crocodile, we don't like your kind around here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 04:43:48 2014 No.5926823 i dont people who read seriously because 99/100 of them try too hard

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 05:20:38 2014 No.5926899

>>5926761
yup there are people this stupid on /lit/ right now.

OK. Time for me to leave. You have not read jack shit. You lack even a basic understanding of writing or reading. That much is clear. Ok. All the intelligent people have lone gone, that much clear. Bye faggot. You're welcome to your /pol/ 2.0

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 05:36:34 2014 No.5926923 i don't like emily dickinson. rather loathe really. this is not part of some sexist constellation of ideas, i just find that shit awful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 05:50:42 2014 No.5926940 Wuthering Heights is okay, but it's a huge red flag for me when a girl lists it as one of her favorite books. She might as well have said Twilight.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:01:36 2014 No.5926954 >>5926761 >being this stupid >having this little reading comprehension >>5926899 said it better

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:02:14 2014 No.5926955 >>5926923 she's too difficult for you i guess

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:03:41 2014 No.5926956 >>5926940 >it's good, but not when girls read it Are you retarded?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:04:46 2014 No.5926959 >>5926955 nice dubs but she is literally like reading poetry for children.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:04:48 2014 No.5926960

>>5926923
I used to really not care for or get her, but in the last year or so I've come around and started to love her poetry. I think her rhythms are so strange that it either gets you or it doesn't.
(people saying she's a housewife????(doesn't even make sense to use that word for her time period, even if she was married) should harm themselves in some elaborate way though

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:07:18 2014 No.5926964

>>5926899
>muh /pol/ buzzword
>muh irony

Stop trying to defend your shit-tier feminist puke-on-paper with your meaningless claims of irony, and just accept that you're a pleb who would lick the crusty cum off a man's sweaty balls to save the reputation of muh strong independent womun author.

Satire is the lowest form of art

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:11:16 2014 No.5926970 >>5926964 Nigga have you even read anything by Jane Austen? Your plebdom is showing with each word.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:11:48 2014 No.5926972

>>5926964
>being this stupid
>having this little reading comprehension
>having this little taste
>having this little sense of history
>being this pathetic
>having this little critical thinking skills

lol at it being about saving Austen's rep, her reputation has lasted and will last over whatever bullshit authors are your favs (please share! I know you won't)

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:13:56 2014 No.5926975 >>5926970 >>5926972 tumblr, pls. >not attacking post at all

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:17:40 2014 No.5926977

>>5926975
Is tumblr still a meme?
And you must seriously live under some rock if you believe Austen is only read and apprechiated by by feminist chicks, which don't exactly strike me as the kind of people to invest themselves in 19th century literature.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:19:06 2014 No.5926981 >>5926977 >tumblr still a meme Is /pol/ still a meme? >which don't exactly strike me as the kind of people to invest themselves in 19th century literature. I dunno there's been a lot of them here lately.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:19:38 2014 No.5926983 >>5926975 I started a little list of things you are lacking and should work on, thank me. Also, tell me who you think are worthy authors, but like I said, you won't because you can't think except in tired memes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:21:14 2014 No.5926984 >>5926981 get it together, I thought the talking point was feminists=tumblr=are stupid and only read YA and fanfiction /pol/ is still an infection

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:23:43 2014 No.5926988

>>5926981
>is /pol/ still a meme
It's been only weeks since moot wrecked havoc on that board, causing an exodus which led to an influx of unwelcome immigrants. Also, do you deny being a regular visitor to that board? Because that's pretty hard to believe. The kind of person to write off Austen as feminist garbage just seems to naturally gravitate towards that cesspool.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:24:14 2014 No.5926990

>>5926959
her poetry's difficulty comes from the fact that it seems surface level at first. she seems to be writing normal rhymed and metered poetry but she subtly plays with rhythms and slant rhymes to create a style of writing that is almost completely unique as well as notoriously difficult

The Heart asks Pleasure - first -
And then - excuse from Pain -
And then - those little Anodynes
That deaden suffering -

And then - to go to sleep -
And then - if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor
The privilege to die -

consider how the first stanza moves at a jaunty regular rhythm, then consider how from the enjambment at the second line of stanza two onward the poem completely subverts that rhythm. the effect is one of the carpet being pulled out from under our feet. the line "The liberty to die" comes as such a shock because of how completely different rhythmically it is from the "That deaden suffering" of the previous stanza. it also feels to me a downward motion, fitting the motion of the sense of this poem, from the first line, which sounds like something written on a dinner plate in your great aunt's kitchen, to the last statement, in which essentially god is an inquisitor who the heart is serving as a pitiful slave

there's a lot more about this poem that's great too

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:27:42 2014 No.5926993

>>5926964
I'm the guy you replied to. I am not even a fan of Austen. But it is obvious you have not read a god damned word of her works.

Please get the fuck off /lit/. Or, if you wish to stay on ./lit/, please read the works you intend to bash so next time you might at least sound mildly intelligent.

That is all. I'm sorry m00t killed your /pol/. I really am. But there is no reason for you to flood /lit/ with your asinine, illiterate plebery

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:28:25 2014 No.5926995 >>5926993 what even happened to /pol/

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:31:09 2014 No.5926996 >>5926995 Word filters which change jew to happy merchant, country flags and permanent IDs, [trigger warning] over each post.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:31:38 2014 No.5926997 >>5926996 lol did that actually change anything or is it just still the same

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:31:59 2014 No.5926998 >>5923682 Yes, you're Catholic and a weeb and a girl, that's all I need.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:33:54 2014 No.5927001 >>5926997 Pretty much the same, but it prevents samefagging and unveiled australians as what everyone always knew they were, the kings of shitposting. Pamper the happy merchants, love and tolerance now!

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:44:19 2014 No.5927020

>>5926984
You would think so, but they seem to be evolving. Maybe it will lead to something productive or rational, who knows.

>>5926983
>>5926988
>>5926993
Keep licking.

>>5926995
m00t started recruiting SJW mods, cleared out the old ones. He wanted to change 4chan's rep of being the big bad evil place of the internet into a happy love place of equality. /pol/ was/is obviously one of the causes of that rep, and when /pol/ found out that he was a legit cluck, he decided to disable Captchas, add in a whole bunch of filters, add in [trigger warning] to the top of each post. He stickied a bunch of retarded posts and added background music too, and for the icing on the cake, he advertised it to the rest of 4chan causing immense spam and now the board's literally unusable.

In all seriousness, and to address some of the other posts, anyone who is remotely angered by /pol/, or wants to disrupt it in any way, are almost always buttmad tumblrinas. The people who voice the "gb2pol" meme or any variation of such, have evidently never been on there. The reputation of "gas the kikes, race war now" is the equivalent of /tv/'s "for you", /fit/'s "manlet", or /mu/'s "in the aeroplane over the sea". Harmless shitposting. It literally isn't disrupting any board or thread more than any other meme, the only thing it disrupts is the self-assurance of the whiny liberal population that sadly occupies this website. Barely anyone on /pol/ (read: anyone aside from the stormfags) is racist as the board's reputation makes them out to be.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:49:56 2014 No.5927032 File: 20 KB, 284x285, 1402699292381.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5927020 the face of butthurt, everybody, I didnt even read it all

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:51:39 2014 No.5927034 >>5927032 Yeah. I'm steaming mad. Everyone point and laugh.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:51:41 2014 No.5927035

>>5927020
I've been on /pol/ for two years, so I know you're full of shit. Reasonable discussion is possible, but it's the exception, kikekikeniggerniggerjidfcuck is the rule. Also, it's hilarious to see that you have already subscribed to one of the countless theories why moot did that, unveiling your utter stupidity and illiteracy. I have serious doubts that you even read, ever, so why are you here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:54:33 2014 No.5927040 >>5927035 You haven't been on /pol/ at all. Next.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:57:59 2014 No.5927046

>>5927040
Yes I was. Every now and then, when this board is too slow or boring, I go back to /pol/ and scroll down the front page, just to remind myself why I left.
Still, talking to people who want to refute marxism with quantum physics, or attack the possibility of same-sex marriage with modal logic are fond memories of mine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:58:27 2014 No.5927049 >>5927020 >still not saying what writers he thinks are good >has read more words on /pol/ than ever in a book

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 06:58:57 2014 No.5927051 >>5927020 how can you say /pol/ isn't actually a terrible place responsible for shitting up other boards when you literally just came into this thread and shit it up with your inane, uneducated opinions about one of the best english writers in history

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 07:00:32 2014 No.5927053 >>5924406 Wooden prose that aims to educate me very straightforwardly. No subtlety. Reactionary. Practically journalism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 07:03:02 2014 No.5927060 >>5918694 >I'm a catholic girl from Atlanta so I might be a little biased. I'm a protestant male from Australia and I agree. O'Connor is incredible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 09:09:14 2014 No.5927317 >>5926541 It was never any different.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 12:58:32 2014 No.5928060 >>5918328 Peter Singer Immanuel Kant I don't really dislike either author's opinions, but the way they write makes me want to vomit.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:02:58 2014 No.5928075
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Flannery O'Connor is actually the single best American author of all time.
Carson McCullers is up there.
Clarice Lispector is one of the greatest latin american writers of all time.

Anyone who dislikes female authors is just ignorant, really.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:07:38 2014 No.5928088 File: 11 KB, 274x312, FlanneryOConnor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5928075 I named my cat after O'Connor. I usually call her Flann or even Flann-Flann.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:13:58 2014 No.5928109 Bukowski for perpetuating the "you're not a true writer unless you've tried to kill yourself four times" tortured artist shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:40:24 2014 No.5928225 >>5928109 i blame hemingway more

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:42:24 2014 No.5928233 >>5928075 Lispector is actually average as fuck. So disappointing. O'Connor is good, but she's not better than Faulkner or Melville.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:43:16 2014 No.5928240 >>5928088 I named my cat Ruggles

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:46:09 2014 No.5928249 >>5928225 at least he succeeded at killing himself

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:46:53 2014 No.5928254 File: 12 KB, 400x224, taylor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5919538 I am, George, I am.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:47:10 2014 No.5928255 >>5928233 that's such an insane sentence, neither of those three are trying to do remotely the same thing at all

kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Dec 30 13:52:01 2014 No.5928269

>>5926990
>her poetry's difficulty comes from the fact that it seems surface level at first

oh, stop this bullshit
you can go and analyze public lavatory wall poetry that way, you will find all those slant rhymes and enjambments there too
well, may be they were inspired by dickinson

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:53:36 2014 No.5928277 >>5928255 He's challenging the claim that she's the best American author

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:56:01 2014 No.5928288 >>5928269 are you actually implying that dickinson was unintentionally using slant rhymes and enjambments or what i'm not sure what you're saying

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:56:03 2014 No.5928289 File: 38 KB, 448x293, james-joyce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How anyone can appreciate this hack of an author is beyond me

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:58:16 2014 No.5928302 >>5928277 oh okay, all three would be in my top 10 or 20 (at least probably, I haven't read Moby Dick)

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:01:06 2014 No.5928308 File: 48 KB, 576x576, 1419886087612.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5928289 Bait or not, Joyce is a garbage salad author. He is to literature what anti-cinema is to film. dogshit

kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Dec 30 14:02:45 2014 No.5928313

>>5928288

>her poetry's difficulty comes from the fact that it seems surface level at first
looks as something used to defend a terrible poet

compare to
>Critics such as Isobel Armstrong argue that the seeming simplicity of poetry such as Landon's is deceptive, and that women poets of the 19th century often employed a method of writing which allows for multiple, concurrent levels of meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:02:50 2014 No.5928314 >>5928308 are you only familiar with finnegans wake try dubliners, there is nothing "salad" like about that book.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:05:33 2014 No.5928323

>>5928313
well in this case it's something used to defend a great poet. it's not like dickinson was on the surface writing sentimental garbage. the surface level impression of ease simply comes from the swift meters and her brevity. her poems zip by poor readers before they are processed, but they are incredibly dense.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:07:51 2014 No.5928331 Palahniuk, Bukowski, Bret Easton Ellis, people who dislike Jane Austen, Hemingway, people who dislike Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, Kerouac, Thomas Mann, Thomas Bernhard, the list goes on...

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:09:15 2014 No.5928335 >>5928314 salad till the sun sets, my friend

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Dec 30 14:09:53 2014 No.5928338 >>5928323 a great poet it's a poet who uses a poor meter, poor rhymes and run-ons here and there. b-but it's only on the surface! yet again, there is a good reason why dickinson is mostly unknown outside of usa

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:10:49 2014 No.5928342 >>5928338 >mostly unknown outside of usa ever considered killing yourself, if not its for shame

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:13:16 2014 No.5928350 >>5928338 >>5928342 for real, go be mad at your 10th grade english class somewhere else >>5928331 good list

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:13:16 2014 No.5928351 >>5928338 >dickinson is mostly unknown outside of usa You don't know much, do you? I suggest, if you don't know what you're talking about, that you keep your thoughts to yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:14:36 2014 No.5928357 File: 39 KB, 411x395, vladimir-nabokov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Nabokov, what an over rated twat

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:14:58 2014 No.5928358 >>5928338 lol so basically you just deny the validity of: 1. substitutions 2. enjambment 3. slant rhyme so basically what we have left is what? nursery rhymes?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:16:04 2014 No.5928365 Dan Bandana Wallus

kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Dec 30 14:16:09 2014 No.5928366
File: 77 KB, 962x938, stuffed_owl_.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

btw, pic related, it's what her poem about the beetle reminds me
that that incredible ambiguous rhyme at the end
if only that james k. elmor was a spinster whose poetry was discovered posthumously, he could be famous!

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:16:10 2014 No.5928367 >>5928338 kitty, i can hold my lunch at any tripfag but you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:17:58 2014 No.5928369 >>5928366 I unironically like that poem.

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Dec 30 14:18:45 2014 No.5928373 >>5928358 that was your defence of her. the poem looks simple at the surface but deeper it has a poor meter, poor rhymes and even run-ons, therefore she was great it's funny

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:29:49 2014 No.5928415 >>5928373 1. substitutions are not "poor meter" 2. slant rhymes are not "poor rhymes" 3. an enjambment is not a "run-on"

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:31:55 2014 No.5928425 >>5928366 definitely comparable to a poem about being so miserable that you beg to even not experience an afterlife

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:34:16 2014 No.5928436 >>5928369 me too dickinson used to put her poems in tins of biscuits for her friends. i think that's lovely. i'd love one of her biscuit tins. her poems are very nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 15:14:31 2014 No.5928669 >>5928308 Wow, you're ignorant as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 20:50:19 2014 No.5929915 File: 13 KB, 214x317, GOD IS DEAD AND NO ONE CARES.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5918727 >Their Eyes Were Watching God

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 20:59:01 2014 No.5929951 >>5928357 sad no one took my nabokov b8

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:06:55 2014 No.5929988 >mfw came onto this thread to shitpost about Jane Austen a day ago and this thread is still on the front page with nearly 300 replies

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