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>>7748722
yer mum's vag

>>7748722
Gene Wolfe

>>7748722
Pretty obviously Shakespeare.

Him, or that autistic kid who wrote the 1.5 million page Super Smash Bros fan fiction.

>>7748718
Lestat was pretty cool, desu.

>>7748741
He did nothing wrong

In fiction, across multiple media?

I'm going to be called a weeb for this, but I think Alucard might be my favorite. I like the depiction of him as less of a singular entity and more of a roiling mass of once-individuals enslaved to a guiding force.

"Grow up and stop running away, you little shit."

If you did not identify with Holden Caulfield when you read this book (and who are we kidding, you're in high school), then you are more Holden than you think.

>>7748696
...raped his sister phoebe

>>7748672
He is my favorite writer. I made a thread a few weeks back, where a few words were shared, but can't find any archival for /lit/. This was the thread if you can find any backup: boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/7686393/naipaul-discussion-thread

The obvious tropes came up: why liberals hate him so much, shitty comparisons with Rushdie (who is a hack in comparison), basically vacuous criticism from people who haven't read him.

I think the bottom line is that Naipaul is the greatest living prose writer of the English language, a master of sentence construction. A writer's writer, as he's called. Frank to a fault, he doesn't find many fans. He has also been prophetic in what he's written, many of the things he wrote in 70s and 80s are all the more relevant today, if you want to understand ISIS and other fundamentalists do what they do. He is also unsympathetic and doesn't allow anyone to follow into the victim mentality, the primary reason people hate him so much. When he wrote "Among the Believers" and "Beyond Belief" he talked about how Islam only allows the Arab people to have a history, to have places of worship- how the converted cultures cope with this reality. Why the Ayatollah of Shia non-Arab Iran wears a black turban as a symbol of obeisance to the Qureish. He spots undercurrents and details in people's conversation that are unnerving, and after reading his book you wouldn't want to have a chat with that guy. He will write about you and expose your deepest fears and dilemmas.

Orhan Pamuk began his memoir thus: Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness.

And this kind of sums up the tragedy of Naipaul, more so than the others he's been clubbed with. He belongs to an unmarked continent of literature which knows no loyalty, no affinities. He doesn't pull any punches, doesn't patronize, is irreverant as fuck. Whether he writes about Trinidad, India, UK, America or Africa, his tone is the same. One who dives under the skin with clinical precision and lays the wounds open for all to see. In this era of political correctness, we don't like these things shown unsanitized. And that is the tragedy of this immensely talented writer. The only one who close imo was Coetzee, who has a very different style.

>>7749437
You don't know what the word "trope" means.

>>7750742
Trope is what you use to climb down t'pit, isn't it?

shit tier b8 fuck off

>>7748598
Gary Larson

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>his discog

>>7748594
Hail Eris

On the Road is a good novel but I wasn't able to appreciate it until I'd nearly completed it.

Haven't read anything else from him

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>>7748498
who cares.
toyota celica.

>>7748498
it lends realism to the work because that is how most people think being faced with a 24/7 ad barrage
are there authors of recent fiction who don't do this?

Do people still do that? It was played out in the 80s.

Being imprisoned, you faggot.

>>7748504
Its not like that. The subplot is of a character who seems innocuous and unremarkable in his regular job, but over the decades he had been planning to commit that one crime. He waited a precise number of years for a certain reason, I need to invent that reason.

Prison would be forced, and he can't plan in prison anyway without resources and all.

You will not find a better answer than revenge

>I'm retarded and can only speak one language
Yeah, no.

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>>7748479
translation is a tricky subject in literature
but yeah, pretty much the worse meme here To Be Honest My Very Dear Family

>>7748479

It really is the worst

Everyone here who actually reads, reads translations.

>>7748468
It's okay. The first part is in modern day and then it goes into this post apocalyptic half zombie/half werewolf world for the rest of it. Not a lot of substance but I didn't hate it. Never bothered with the sequels, though.

>>7748468
I enjoyed it. It's merely entertainment, but it doesn't insult your intelligence or anything. The sequel is fine as well; trilogy is scheduled to end this year.

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That doesn't even rhyme.

If you're going to write poems, you better write about that bump on your dick, otherwise it's going to sound fake. If you think that's "gross" or something, better find another medium

>>7748445
>I'm not the artsy type
>write her a poem
Why?
The poems pretty bad, I'm sure she'd appreciate it still.

Nope.

Donke-
Monke-


Flunk-
Fann-
Trann-

The E in monkey makes it so that you can't rearrange it into monkies. It must be monkeys.

t. professional English speaker

>>7748434
To make it harder for people in the community to speak English good and get good jobs.

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave are very good and often touchy

>>7748428
I'm currently reading "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" (book XV).
The prose is good, he lived a full life in an interesting age, and has met (till book 15) Louis XVI, Mirabeau, Washington, and Napoleon.
Here and there he omits something (like the part-time job as importer of socks, or smallpox scars in the passport under particular signs) for appearing cooler but are memories... it's like go at the house of a dude it's obvious that such dude tries to appear at his best.

I want read Atala and Renè after.

>>7748428
I don't give a fuck what you just bought, tu faggot

>tee-hee

Gaiman isn't a meme writer.

He's just an ok writer who sells a lot of books and makes a lot of money.

Gamian is the 5est out of 10 that ever fived out of ten.

>>7748415
But that book was terrible.

>>7748443
Why do you think so? Not even trying to start an argument or call you stupid or whatever. I'm genuinely interested in understanding why someone would think this book was terrible.