Most overrated writer...

me, my diary desu is so overrated

>>9214286
Dostoevsky

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This book is absolute garbage feminist FILTH, Charles FUCK me in my dickens ass be damned!

>>9214330
This correct. Dickens is pure kitsch that needs to be forgotten

Philip Roth
A decent writer with waaaaay too many awards.

>>9214286

JK Rowling

>>9214286

George R.R. Martin. Not because he writes "genre fiction" or anything like that, but his series is yet another medieval fantasy book.

Compare that to Guy Gavriel Kay who writes historical/medieval fantasy, but branched out to write about Italy, Spain, the Byzantine Empire, and China instead of just fantasy England.

Or compare that to someone like China Mieville who writes "weird fiction" and takes full advantage of the fact that you can do whatever the fuck you want to do in a fantasy story.

>>9214286
i'm gonna beat a dead horse and say ayn rand. she's validated thousands of genuinely terrible people, writes poorly, and objectivism is literally the novelty t-shirt of philosophy

>>9214304
he never wrote tho desu

>>9214311
He never was as good as Tolstoy, desu

>>9214330
>>9214956
Dead wrong.

>>9215488
Upvoted!

>>9214286
Edith Wharton by a huge margin

Tolstoy is pretty much garbage. When one of your "masterpieces" is just a short story you wrote years prior fleshed out to 300 pages smashed up against a Madame Bovary ripoff with some other meaningless shit in between, things are not good for you.

Even the Death of Ivan Illyich isn't that great

Shakespeare
12 good plays out of 36 is a pretty poor average to be desu

>>9214963

I thought this after reading the plot against America, but then I read American Pastoral. Then I thought he deserves the Nobel.

Hemingway, by a large margin.

>>9214286
Anthony Trollope (Wrote fast and didn't give a shit.) and Alexander Dumas (Spoiler: he had a writing partner who wrote all his outlines before he came in and added in more detail and dialogue.)

Jean-Christophe Grangé

>>9214286
Hemingway. Fuck Hemingway.

>>9217347
finally someone who thinks just like me.

Vonnegut

D.H. Lawrence.

The man looked down in silence at the tense phallos, that did not change.--`Ay!' he said at last, in a little voice. `Ay ma lad! tha're theer right enough. Yi, tha mun rear thy head! Theer on thy own, eh? an' ta'es no count O' nob'dy! Tha ma'es nowt O' me, John Thomas. Art boss? of me? Eh well, tha're more cocky than me, an' tha says less. John Thomas! Dost want her? Dost want my lady Jane? Tha's dipped me in again, tha hast. Ay, an' tha comes up smilin'.--Ax 'er then! Ax lady Jane! Say: Lift up your heads, O ye gates, that the king of glory may come in. Ay, th' cheek on thee! Cunt, that's what tha're after. Tell lady Jane tha wants cunt. John Thomas, an' th' cunt O' lady Jane!--'

>>9214956
He's one of the greatest prose stylists of the english language. And BTW Bleak House was a favourite of both Kafka, Peake and Dostoevsky for a reason. A Mutual Friend is another example of his more gothic, ambiguous side.

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>>9214286
This was 20x better than anything Herbert ever did

>>9214286
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>>9214286
Charles Dickens. I don't want to read a fucking sitcom.

>>9217406
I think this is definetly the right answer, /r/books is simply a hemingway/vonnegut circlejerk.

>>9215600
shakespeare is fucking trash, good prose though

>>9214311
Goddamit who is good for u