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ITT: Dishonest authors

>> No.10966934

>>10966931
Explain your choice

>> No.10966945

>>10966934
he only wrote because he was paid.

>> No.10966980

>>10966931
Dickens, Shaw, Carlyle, the list goes on

>> No.10967021

>>10966945
He was a prolific philanthropist

>> No.10967040

>>10966931
about what?

>> No.10967097

Balzac. Fakes realism with easy platitudes.

>> No.10967117

Chesterton

>> No.10967118
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10967118

Whomst've is the Denis /v/illeneuve of literature?

>> No.10967121

>>10966931
Victor Hugo

>> No.10967124

>>10967097
Man I wish this board would lose its fascination with Nabokov's quips and develop their own voice. This is cancerous.

>> No.10967140

>>10967118
Tolstoy

>> No.10967145

>>10967140
Surprisingly good choice Tbh

>> No.10967147

>>10967140
>>10967145
Care to extrapolate?

>> No.10967165

>>10967117
how?

>> No.10967167

>>10967118
What's the picture supposed to convey?

>> No.10967177

>>10967147
he's technically sound, artsy but not pretentious (don't fall for /tv/ memes), with some important thoughts in his work (tolstoy here is far superior though). Little range.

>> No.10967183

>>10967177
>technically sound
/v/illeneuve can't edit his way out of a wet paper bag and his blocking is god awful.

>> No.10967202

>>10967118
That movie was awesome, you cucks need to stop falling for the memes.