ITT: Writers you would have never heard about if not for /lit/.
>>8006285
haha that's funny cuz hez my favorite author.
to get back on topic, pic related for me.
>>8006285
John Green for me too.
Do Americans really read this?
>>8006309
They don't.
>>8006309
yes they do. more so them anything
WHY IS HE SO UGLY, GODDAMN
I can't believe I gave this gook money to read his shit fucking book.
gaddis
thanks fellas
>>8006370
It must suck huh? Knowing this ugly fuck got to marry and bareback the popular girl in high school who he was too nervous to talk to at the time.
Have kids, write books, have popular youtube series etc.
I agree, man. What an ugly fuck.
>>8006385
She's not attractive either.
>>8006420
?
Am I pinging wrong here?
>>8006420
You're just jealous that you're not as handsome and successful as him. He has a popular YouTube series that everyone watches.
if i'm being honest.
obvi
>>8006437
Yes, but is she jewish
She definitely looks like she could be, but I can't find any good profile shots to confirm + she hides her brow with her hair style. Or I could be wrong, and she's just a regular reduced armenoid.
>>8006362
than*
>>8006420
Was she really considered attractive/ popular?
>>8006377
Who's this asian gentleman?
>>8006437
Well, saying "never" is quite a stretch but being Italian it'd taken a lot more
>McCarthy
>Pynchon
>Peter Watts
>Gene Wolfe
>Robert Anton Wilson
Maybe others who knows
Ligotti, Evola, Stirner, Franzen, Turgenev, Mira Gonzalez, Tao Lin, Murakami
Stirner, McCarthy
DAVID FOSTER WALLLLL ISSSSSS
probably
I can't think of any. Even like Mira Gonzalez I've heard talked about IRL. Though five years ago I actually took classes on Classical Greek Philosophy and James Joyce because /lit/ talked about them so much, having not read either before.
>>8006309
They do. I heard about (and hated) Green before I ever came to /lit/ because I had a friend who worshipped his garbage books
>>8006309
As a current senior in highschool in Wisconsin, nearly every girl at my school has read at least Looking for Alaska and The Fault in our Stars. Normally around freshman year.
Pichon and wallace
>>8006383
Yeah, I went to university (in the US) and studied post-war American literature and no one (that I can recall) ever even mentioned him.
>>8006571
Wow, The Recognitions is the urtext of post-war fiction. I can't believe it!
>>8006285
I've heard of him, only because I was watching his awful youtube videos on history, I didn't even know he was a writer until I saw a thread complaining about him.
No one except for the alt-lit American meme writers.
>>8006575
Go to bed, Franzen.
>>8006575
LANGUAGE poets, Black Mountain school, New Journalism, Beats, Gonzo sure. Now that I think about it, no mention of Gass or McElroy either.
>>8006377
Get off the road, Tao
John Hawkes
Mishima
Alasdair Gray
J F Powers
J A Baker
Grossman
Yourcenar
>>8006309
In cauntry that takes literature as seriously as mine, he's like a passing fad among youth. Everyone else don't give a fuck or treat him like a joke.
I even use him as a way to see if someone is worth talking to.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.
David Foster Wallace
Max Stirner
Witold Gombrowicz
Stirner
Evola
>>8006609
But all of that stuff is shit. Goddamn
I probably wouldn't have heard of some people like Sukenick or Orlovitz, but everyone else I can think of I would have heard of.
>>8008814
Oh and while I first heard about John Green on /lit/, I probably would have heard of him elsewhere at some point anyway
>>8006362
>4,100,000 ratings for Hunger Games #1
>3,800,000 ratings for Harry Potter #1
>1,800,000 ratings for Divergent #1
>700,000 ratings for Looking For Alaska
>650,000 ratings for Odyssey
>500,000 ratings for Catch-22
>450,000 ratings for Dune
>416,000 ratings for Sookie Stackhouse #1 (True Blood)
>230,000 ratings for Iliad
>45,000 ratings for Sorrows Of Young Werther
>16,000 ratings for Faust
Popularity contests are gonna popularity
John Green.
Tao Lin.
The problem here being my taste for reading authors who write about other authors, and the state of the art.
Were it not for /lit/, I would probably still be reading DFW. Were it not for /lit/, I would never have picked up Pynchon (thought I heard about him long before visiting /lit/).
JG and Tao continue to hold no interest for me.
>>8008828
anybody who rates the Iliad out of five stars is a fucking moron
Any schmuck is qualified to express an opinion about whether he enjoyed Harry Potter, and that's an appropriate way to respond to such a book. But every asshole who has clicked on one of those five stars and given their opinion about an immortal and foundational work that they definitely did not read in Ancient Greek is not using Goodreads correctly
His face is almost as asymmetric as mine
>>8009052
And he's not even a Jew....
>>8008987
What the fuck are you talking about
I vaguely remember seeing people with The Magus on campus but never got around to reading it until people recommended it here.
I've never read or watched anything of Green's, and only really seen him mentioned here t b h f a m. But he seems like a pretty okay guy. Given that edgy teens here love to dunk on him I'm guessing there's probably some redeeming stuff in his work.
>>8009965
Yeah, he's kinda like Ayn Rand in that way, lol
>>8011610
Regardless of her ethical/amphetamine prescriptions, you'd have to be reading pretty shittily not to get something interesting at least out of somebody who basically considers Kant the single greatest affront to human dignity.
