>Pro: Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Strauss, Harold Bloom, Frank Kermode, David Lodge... >Anti: Henry James, some corncobber and redbulled r9k influx really fires up the neurons

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Anonymous Sat Aug 12 05:58:44 2017 No.9881914 [Reply] [Original]

>Pro: Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Strauss, Harold Bloom, Frank Kermode, David Lodge...
>Anti: Henry James, some corncobber and redbulled r9k influx
really fires up the neurons

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 05:59:55 2017 No.9881917 >>9881914 Mark Twain hated her. There was another famous author who did but I can't seem to remember right now

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 06:01:28 2017 No.9881918 Didn't henry james write the same boring shit as austen did?

Anonymous Sat Aug 12 06:02:41 2017 No.9881922

Her books aren't bad, they're just kind of limited. I liked them when I was 13 and still a naive romantic wanting a Colonel Brandon to sweep me off my feet. But then I moved on to better books. The only thing that's bad about her is when people treat her as the be all and end all to literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 12 06:06:14 2017 No.9881927 >>9881918 It's not being boring that is the problem.

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