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>Terry Pratchet, Iain Banks, and Christopher Hitchens got stickies
>Gabriel García Marquez never got a sticky

>> No.6259311
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>> No.6259321

Had no idea he died ;(


Also he looks a lot like Luis bunuel

>> No.6259329

Also, the typo in the bookz link of that other sticky is still there, even after people have complained about it for months
Do the mods even browse this place?

>> No.6259331

>>6259291
Because Marquez was almost unreadable. I almost cried myself from boredom while reading One Hundread Years of Solitude.

>> No.6259358

who?

>> No.6259359

>>6259331
pleb detected. Marquez is a pretty easy read.

>> No.6259379

>>6259359
I am spanish and GOD. One Hundred Years of Solitude sure was a boring shit...

>> No.6259447

>>6259359
Twilight is easy too. Doesn't mean it isn't boring.

>> No.6259463

Mods want to get people from other boards posting so only pleb authors get a sticky

>> No.6259483

>>6259331
100YOS is based

>> No.6259501

>>6259331
are you serious? I couldn't put the book down

>> No.6259520

>>6259379
>>6259331
>>6259358
These are just cross-boarders, right? Why would you describe something as "boring" when you're on a literature board?

>> No.6259533

Is this true? Holy shit, /lit/ mods.

100 Years of Solitude is so fucking based.

>> No.6259536

When Gabo died I was in the library and went to tell the librarians about it.

None of them knew who he was.

I think that was the moment I felt most sad about the reading public

>> No.6259581

>>6259533
what does basad mean? forgive my ignorance, im not native english speaker

>> No.6259587

>>6259581
based*

>> No.6261469

bump

>> No.6261488

>>6259581
It's something you'll never really hear about off the Internet, as it is a reference to a rapper who refers to himself as "Based God". It essentially means really cool.

>> No.6261505

>>6259331

One Hundred Years is not a hard read. You breeze through it. I'm actually surprised people are saying librarians don't know who he is or he didn't get a sticky because he's pretty famous and accessible.

>> No.6261511

>>6259581
oldish 4chan meme. it's not a real word that people actually use.

>> No.6261514

>>6261505
Most people don't speak Spanish, or bother to read translations unless they're popular in English.

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>>6259291
>Iain Banks
>Died
There was a sticky?
...Maybe that was the summer I sat out.

Yeah. There was no sticky for Jack Vance or Anne McCaffrey either.

>> No.6261529

>>6261514

Yeah, but he's pretty well known in translation even. One Hundred Years is in the popular penguin selection. I mean, that's pretty out there. And he's easy to read in English too.

>> No.6261533

>>6261514
the 100 years of solitude translation is really good

(allegedly) Marquez himself said it was fantastic. There's a quote that says he likes it better than the Spanish but I don't believe that

>> No.6261537

>>6261529
His prose is so good it survives even translations!

>> No.6261544

100 Years was Awesome. Love in the time of Cholera on the other hand was dreadfully boring.

>> No.6261613

>>6259536
Where do you live? Everyone went crazy in my Uni when he died (Mexican here)

>> No.6261762

>>6259291
Marquez was shit, I read a lot of his books in school and hate all of them. I'm mexican

>> No.6262988

>>6261511
>4chan meme
Uhhhhh no

>> No.6262997

>>6261762
you're quasi-nigger, no one cares what you think

>> No.6263071

Blame pleb mods who think that every board should have their pleb tastes shoved down their throats.
A good example is this thread http://web.archive.org/web/20110722225718/http://archive.no-ip.org/mu/thread/18731224
The idiot made the thread on /jp/ originally but when they pointed out that the thread was off-topic he posted it on /mu/ and gave 30 day bans to anyone who said anything negative about the band
>>6259329
>Do the mods even browse this place?
No, they're a bunch of fucking plebs.

>> No.6263460

>>6259379
Tu no eres epañol, cabron. Y si eres, al carajo con ti.

>> No.6263464

>>6261762
Desgracia