Seriously?

I think they've run out of real classics at this point.

>>7229408.
Good read, whats the problem

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>>7229452
>Good read

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>>7229408

>tfw hacks like Nick Hornby, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Thomas Ligotti, are now part of the western canon and are forced to be works of serious study now

>>7229502
Nice, you found an equivelant of this. How cute.

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>>7229507
>>7229502

Forgot my image like a goofball.

>>7229510
>school.failblog.org

u wot m8

>>7229512
I keep my memes on google search.

>>7229505
>Thomas Ligotti

Jesus. He's one of two authors that I've ever put down without finishing, and I've been reading ~50 books/year since 2009.

How long til a black label penguin classics for BotNS

Are you implying Howard doesn't belong in modern classics?

I haven't read any of Howard's genre fiction trite. But Conan is just a barbarian version of lord of the rings. I mean being genre automatically makes it awful in my book, but Conan is just a banal, pulpy, lamentable piece of trite.

>>7229618 #
>a barbarian version of LotR
>the first Conan the Barbarian story People of the Dark was written in October 1931 and appeared in Weird Tales in 1932
>Tolkien began writing LotR in 1937 and would not be finished until 1949 and it was not published until 1954

>Conan
>1932
>LotR
>1954

I like to throw around the word genre and automatically denounce it without any explanation, its genre thats good enough. And i like the word trite, m'lady. LotR is just an Enid Blyton version of Conan. Being genre automatically makes it awful in my book, but LotR is just sappy, anorakish, boring piece of trite.

>>7229618
9/10 troll, misspelling the word 'tripe' twice and failing to use proper capitalization is a nice touch on the 'le patrish idiot' troll.

>>7229808
not sure if also trolling but trite and tripe are both words

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>>7229618
>>7229662
>>7229808
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