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Now that the dust has well and truly settled.... Based or Cringe?

>> No.16614448

Based

>> No.16614465

People give him a lot of shit for not liking/paying respect to Tolkien. I love Tolkien but also enjoy his purposeful distance from the stuff so: Based

>> No.16614471

>marxist

cringe

>> No.16614482

>>16614445
incredibly cringe.

>> No.16614486

>>16614465
epic poo was super cringe

>> No.16614501

He writes ntertaining, occasionally clever kitsch, so it's really neither.

>> No.16614534

giga cringe.
the UK should apologize.

>> No.16614603

>>16614486
that was michael moorcock, who is similarly mega cringe

>> No.16614647

>>16614445
Imagine getting filtered by Tolkien

>> No.16614668

>>16614647
That’s not getting filtered. That’s making an effort to move on.

>> No.16614681

>>16614445
decent writer but a bit of a tosser in real life (i've met/worked with him)

>> No.16614726

>>16614681
>bit of a tosser in real life
in what way?

>> No.16615445

>>16614445
Only read the city and the city and it was kinda shite so I'm going with cringe.

>> No.16615461

ultra cringe. anybody who has all the benefits of bougie rearing but STILL turns out as a redditoid genre hack deserves to have their pants wedgied up to their neck and swirlied to near asphyxia

>dad married into literal nobility

>> No.16615561

Bit of both.

>> No.16615563

Perdido Shit Station was insultingly bad.

>> No.16615601

>>16614726
He tickled my love handles everytime we met. Got me wheezing loud in a cafe once and everyone was staring.

>> No.16615756

>>16614647
Imagine wanking off over books for children

>> No.16616244

>>16615601
based

>> No.16616495

>>16614445
Holy fucking autistic cringe

>> No.16616628
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>pampered well educated rich bald pseudorebellious marxist that openly despises the actual working class and literally fetishizes multiculti and has probably fucked a catamite once or twice

>> No.16616657

>>16614445
He's worse than cringe.

He's boring.

>> No.16617280

>>16614445
based. so sad he killed himself. loved minutes to midnight.

>> No.16617405

>>16616628

i'm sorry you didn't go to college anon, you can always take classes at community college?

>> No.16617487

>>16614668
No, he literally doesn't understand Tolkein. I'm all for moving on, but at least understand that from which you're departing.

>> No.16617507

>>16617405
based contemner of the working class

>> No.16617580

>>16614445
A raging pole smoker and terrible author

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>>16614668
Imagine being a fucking tranny