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Anonymous07/29/26, 19:08No.25432195Most overrated authors you've read
Steve Donoghue:
>James Joyce
>Charles Dickens
>DFW
>Jonathan Franzen
>John Updike
>Norman Mailer
>Jack Kerouac
>Allen Ginsberg
>Philip Roth
https://youtu.be/FQ5GVEI2OY0?si=1hKoTeK2XrJHbIkx&t=768
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Anon07/29/26, 19:15No.25432208
>virgin boomer
Don't care. This guy was a boomer and couldn't get a gf or get laid. He's not worth considering as a human being.
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Anon07/29/26, 19:29No.25432245
Tolstoy
Blake
Camus
Hesse
Cervantes
Wilde
Pre-Ulysses Joyce
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Anon07/29/26, 19:30No.25432249
tolkien
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Anon07/29/26, 19:46No.25432280
In terms of writers only zoom-zooms read, Dosto and Mishima are ultra-pseud magnets. But overall, i'm gonna say Fitzgerald and Tolstoy (though some of Tolstoy is great, a lot of it is okay).
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Anon07/29/26, 19:54No.25432309
That's why i stick to classics i've never been dissapointed except maybe Satyricon
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Anon07/30/26, 02:21No.25433033
why did you post innocent Steve to this board of antisocial curmudgeons?
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Anon07/30/26, 02:58No.25433060
kill yourself op
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Anon07/30/26, 14:52No.25433887
This boomer idiot knows nothing about literature and his taste is terrible. Goes to show even if you read thousands of books you'll still be a Superhero comic consuming retard if you were born that way.
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Anon07/30/26, 15:16No.25433926
For me it’sJane Austen
Mary Shelley
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
The other one
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Margaret Drabble
AS Byatt
Doris Lessing
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Anon07/30/26, 17:29No.25434149
Charles Dickens
Dostoevsky
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Anon07/30/26, 17:37No.25434157
can someone explain dickens? Are the novels the equivalent of a sitcom?
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Anon07/30/26, 19:12No.25434344
Correct
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Anon07/31/26, 00:05No.25434908
Dazai
Much prefer Akutagawa
Of course I read. both in >translation
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Anon07/31/26, 16:38No.25436028
Camus and Sartre. Murakami as well for contemporary ones.
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Anon07/31/26, 18:32No.25436277
Joyce and Dickens overrated is pseud tier, the rest he's right about but I doubt he's right about why considering he thinks Joyce and Dickens are "overrated" lmao
advertising is against the rules btw
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Anon07/31/26, 18:52No.25436310
'A Christmas Convo': A sit-down with Charles Dickens' great-great grandson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-RPOF784iQ
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Anon07/31/26, 19:05No.25436337
I think Cormac McCarthy is genuinely a bad writer. His prose, his lack of punctuation, his weak characters, his regurgitation of The Bible and Moby-Dick and William Faulkner etc