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7057821 No.7057821 [Reply] [Original]

So why don't some people here seem to like this? I thought the prose was very nice and while it may not have the deepest metaphors in the world I found it rather unpretentious.

>> No.7057839

Because it's popular.

>> No.7057844

>>7057839
this tbh

Unlike some other meme books, this is a solid work.

>> No.7057848

>>7057839
>>7057844
So's Shakespeare

>> No.7057857

>>7057821

Boring snd Vapid themes

>> No.7057862

>>7057857
Why, and what wouldn't be boring and vapid?

>> No.7057866

>>7057821
Only dumb americunts like that shit.

>> No.7057867

>>7057866
Explain or leave.

>> No.7057870

>If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
What did he mean by this?