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>Mary Higgins Clark
>Stephen King

DFW was a fucking P L E B.

>> No.7127617

>>7127314
>that warning
Crrrrrringggggge

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>>7127314
What the fuck is this? Mary Higgins Clark is total trash, and if you've read King' autobiography it should be apparent that there's not too much to dig into with Carrie.

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>>7127314

>Don't let any potential lightweightish-looking qualities of the texts delude you into thinking that this will be a blow-off-type class. These "popular" texts will end up being harder than more conventionally "literary" works to unpack and read critically. You'll end up doing more work in here than in other sections of 102, probably.

What did he mean by this? Seriously, I want to know what students were in for.

>> No.7127640

>>7127314

Only for the irony.

>> No.7127744

>>7127637
Secretly it's a tennis class

>> No.7127755

>>7127637

you can think really hard about any work of lit. you could produce some interesting critical theory on 50shades or twilight or whatever

dfw picked some pop crap to drive this home i think

>> No.7127772

>>7127314
He used them as easily recognizable examples of whatever elements may have been part of the course subject matter. Plus he wasn't a complete snob.