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ITT: Authors you think are shit but everyone else seems to willingly cuck themselves to.

>> No.7134200

pynchon

>> No.7134206

>>7134200
because of his schizo fucking writing?

>> No.7134207

>>7134195
Orwell

>> No.7134210

>>7134200
>>7134207
nah bruz you just dont get them, smh, you just dont see the sublimity tbh bruz smh fam

>> No.7134213

>>7134210
need to add something about "stick to your YA/Harry Potter/Dan Brown/etc"

>> No.7134218

umberto eco (italian dan brown)

>> No.7134219

>>7134207
who the hell cucks to orwell but high school teachers? bugger orwell, i say

>> No.7134221

>>7134200
>>7134207
>>7134218
btw just stick to your plebshit young-insecure-adult fucktion/HP/Dan Shitcolour/games of seats shit tbh ffs smh fam

>> No.7134224

>>7134219
redditors tbh

>> No.7134225
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>>7134218

>> No.7134227

>>7134221
Well memed

>> No.7134228

Nabokov and Pynchon

>> No.7134243

>>7134228
>nabokov
thanks commie, your contribution has been noted

>> No.7134254

>cuck

i love this meme fam

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>>7134207

Fuck off and die, totalitarian scum.

>> No.7134263

>>7134219
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57C1dXU3yo

>> No.7134266
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>>7134218
>he doesn't realise the mystery element of Eco's work is a conceit

>> No.7134273

>>7134254
we swearword status nao.

>> No.7134279

>>7134254
>accidentally used 'cuck' in a conversation yesterday at school
>no one batted an eye
2016 Oxford Dictionary entrant right here.

>> No.7134281

>>7134279
>accidentally used tbh (not saying it in full, actually pronouncing it TEE BEE HAYCH) in conversation with some friends
>no one batted an eye

I know what they were thinking.

>> No.7134289

>>7134279
yeah dude, cuck, tbh, fam, smh are gonna enter the official western vocabulary, and you just fucking watch - all the undergrad linguistics kids are gonna stroll up to the podium with dick in hand and whinge about "muh why is language le changin' bruz it shouldn't change bruz these words aren't words bruz"

>> No.7134295

>>7134263
what an annoying person

>> No.7134297

>>7134210
>>7134221
>>7134289
Whoever you are, please leave.

>> No.7134303

>>7134289
I thought linguistics students were obnoxious in having the complete opposite of that view.

>> No.7134310

>>7134303
I was parodying a linguistics student I knew. He always complained about how words were always changing.

>> No.7134320

>>7134263
Women and high schoolers are on the same intellectual level.

>> No.7134323

>>7134310
That's like a student of history complaining there's always coming of it.

>> No.7134330
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7134330

Hemingway
McCarthy
Orwell
Christopher Hitchens
Martin Amis
Kingsley Amis
Phillip Larking
Salman Rushdie
Haruki Murakami

>> No.7134331

Bertrand Russell

>>7134330
Larkin, not Larking

>> No.7134339

>>7134195
shakespeare
and camus, but camus doesn't come close to my #1

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>>7134330
With you on all of them but McCarthy.

>> No.7134371

>>7134330
>Haruki Murakami

well-regarded by normies maybe