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Is this all shit?
Can you unironically enjoy books featured here?
Can you ironically enjoy books featured here?
Are there notable exceptions?
etc.
General thoughts.

>> No.6509913

>>6509905
It's probably 90% shit but there may have been one or two decent books that managed to slip in. I've never cared enough to really look through examples though.

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>>6509913
>>6509905
Faulkner.

>> No.6509930

Faulkner and Steinbeck have made their way into Oprah's book club. Probably a few others too.

>> No.6509946

It's debatable but I enjoyed The Road

I'm also the type that doesn't "simulate" everything happening in the book in my mind; I found The Road fairly difficult because of this.

You were already going to call me a pleb for liking The Road, might as well mention that it wasn't an easy read for me.

>> No.6509985

Anna Karenina was one so it's got that going for it

>> No.6510394

>>6509905
Boorstin would have a fucking field day.

>> No.6510707

Steinbeck, Faulkner, Franzen, and Tolstoy slipped in.

In general I would avoid book club and literary prize recommendations for contemporary works. There's a lot more good stuff being pushed by publishing houses like Dalkey Archive and reviewers like The Complete Review.

>> No.6510747

>>6510707
>Franzen

I was about to make a shitpost about how Franzen was selected, thereby signifying that the book club had merit, but I see you beat me to the punch.

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>>6510707
>Steinbeck, Faulkner, Franzen, and Tolstoy

>> No.6510774

>>6510766
top middle only has two buttons

>> No.6510777

>>6510774
It's actually Franzen, because he's talentless.

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>>6510777
Priceless.

>> No.6510789

>>6509925
This
DEAR GOD
THIS

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>>6509905
>Boycott all Oprah Book Club books
>no longer need to read Faulkner

>> No.6510805

>>6510777
It would take a truly titanic effort to dislodge your head from your own ass.

>> No.6511260

Toni Morrison good. Rohinton Mistry supposed to be good. John Steinbeck good. Gabriel García Márquez good. Carson McCullers good. Leo Tolstoy great. William Faulkner great. Cormac McCarthy good. Charles Dickens great.