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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.

>> No.6671711

This guy and Sam Harris are the worst /lit/ memes

>> No.6671715

>>6671706
He's right.

But what I'll never understand is, considering Nabby's tastes, why the hell does he love Tolstoy so much?

>> No.6672056

>>6671706
That's from Nabokov not John Green. Quit trying to perpetuate the John Green is shit meme it's getting annoying stating the obvious so fucking often.

>> No.6672066

>>6672056
nabokov talkin shit about one of the greatest russian authors of all time

>> No.6672094

>Faulkner, William: Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

God damn you, Nabby.

>> No.6672100

>>6672094
Nabby had strong opinions with everything concerning literature. Doesn't make them right or wrong, but whatever he usually likes is a good reference point for when you're buying books.

>> No.6672102

>>6672056

You know I actually thought that John Green is actually a nice guy whose just kind of ruined by memes, but then I watched some of his crash course videos, and now I want every bit of meme attachted to him at all times.

>IL: Yet the defenders of John Green claim that these books get their children to read.
>HB: But they don't! Their eyes simply scan the page. Then they turn to the next page. Their minds are deadened by cliches. Nothing is required of them, absolutely nothing. Nothing happens to them. They are invited to avoid reality, to avoid the world and they are not invited to look inward, into themselves. But of course it is an exercise in futility to try to oppose John Green.

>> No.6672107

Nabokov was such a profoundly gaping asshole I sometimes wish he hadn't been so capable of justifying it by being such a great writer.

>> No.6672120

>>6672102
You really think most litizens haven't read the Harry Potter interview?

>> No.6672137

Nabokov or Bloom: Who is the Piero Scaruffi of literature?

>> No.6672143

>>6671715
He hated the better part of Tolstoy's corpus. He only had favorable things to say about Anna Karenina and Ivan Illyich

>> No.6672146

>>6672137

But scaruffi is the scaruffi of literature
http://scaruffi.com/fiction.html

>> No.6672159

>>6672146
What the fuck he has to be using the Tai Lopez method how the fuck does he have a list of "The Best Romanian Literature"

>> No.6672200

Best novels in English according to Scaruffi:

1.Henry James (USA, 1843): "The Golden Bowl" (1904) +++
2.James Joyce (Ireland, 1882): "Ulysses" (1922) +++
3.Emily Bronte (Britain, 1818): "Wuthering Heights" (1847) ++
4.Vladimir Nabokov (Russia, 1899): "Ada" (1969) ++
5.Thomas Pynchon (USA, 1937): "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973) ++
6.William Faulkner (USA, 1897): "Light in August" (1932) ++
7.Virginia Woolf (Britain, 1882): "To the Lighthouse" (1927) ++
8.William Gaddis (USA, 1922): "The Recognitions" (1955) ++
9.Joseph Conrad (Poland, 1857): "Nostromo" (1904) ++
10.John Barth (USA, 1930): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966) ++

Is he a pleb?

>> No.6672210

>>6672159
kek he's apparently an expert in Georgian, Romanian, Armenian, Hungarian, and Turkish literature.

>> No.6672220
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6672220

>>6672159
>2015
>reading books

>> No.6672229

>>6672200

He does have Twilight and Harry Potter on that list. Seriously, go look for it.

>> No.6672238

>>6672102

those fucking crash course videos holy shit

this guy should be crowned emperor cuck

>> No.6672250

>>6672229
I think he just listed everything he knows. It starts out as the typical "best novels in English" list (Moby Dick, Ulysses, etc) and then slowly devolves into pulp.

>> No.6672562

>>6672146
>check Scaruffi's movie ratings for last year
>apparently Winter Soldier has the same rating as the Amazing Spider-Man 2

lol k

>muh capeshit

there you go, guy who's going to respond to me.

>> No.6672586

>>6672562
>trash is better than garbage

>> No.6672666

>>6671715
"It would seem at first glance that Tolstoy's fiction is heavily infected with his teachings. Actually, his ideology was so tame and so vague and so far from politics, and, on the other hand, his art was so powerful, so tiger bright, so original and universal that it easily transcends the sermon. In the long run what interested him as a thinker were Life and Death..."

>> No.6672682

>>6672200
>bronte above woolf
>bronte at all

confirmed retard

>> No.6672714

>Marx, Karl. Loathe him.

What was even the point of his inclusion

>> No.6672793

>>6672102
His crash course history on Capitalism and Socialism...ugh...I almost had an aneurysm. What a fucking idiot.

>> No.6672860

>>6671711
Sam Harris isn't that bad