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Has a woman ever written a masterpiece?
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No, and they never will.

Periods and cooking don't make good subjects for high literature.
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The Waves
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Of course and if you need to ask for examples, you are too dumb to be on /lit/. Mods need to start locking these threads or we are going to become a slightly better read /r9k/.
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Atlas Shrugged
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Harry Potter
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Why are there about 3 new misogyny threads a day now? /lit/ has become cancerous. Go to r9k you tiresome losers.
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>>8101057
"Middlemarch" is a masterpiece.
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>>8101093
Rhymes with "menarche", thus proving that women can only write about periods.

>>8101092
Because it's so easy to bait you morons into replying. This is pedagogic, in a way.
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>>8101098
Just because people reply doesn't mean you should do it. You're really shiting up the board. Beside most people in those threads agree.
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>>8101057
Probably.

Most masterpieces, just like most bad books, definitionally remain unread.
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>>8101093
Probably the best book written by a female.
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>>8101057
Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves by Virginia Woolf.
Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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>>8101106
Every board on 4chan is /v/ with a different object.

I mostly agree with the OP, in any case. Shitposting is just a comical way of making a point.
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>>8101057
Can't, won't, and never will. Their pampering, egocentricity, and worldliness works against them completely.

In all seriousness, actually women can be just as good writers. I thought the Bell Jar was pretty awe inspiring. But I would say upwards of 90% of the female writing I have read has no comparison, on average, with the writing of males.
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>>8101057
Yes, Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor is easily the best collection of short stories written in the US and possibly English language in general.
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>>8101098
>Middlemarch rhymes with "menarche"
>"menarch"
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women are simply inferior roast whores they will never be as rational as me, theyre pathetic normie Stacy cunts who only care about Chad.

Dont waste your life on women theyre simply inferior to any rational man with logic and science on his side
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Who hurt you OP?
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>>8101222
>toasty roastie detected

You don't have to actually have been hurt by women to realize that they're all worthless whores with no redeemable qualities. Take the redpill
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>>8101226
Surely something inspired you to be mad online at half the world's population.
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>>8101266
feminism destroying the west perhaps. that's women's fault and marxists
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>>8101273
I'm in the West, and it doesn't seem very destroyed. Try reading websites that aren't scaremongering for clicks.
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>>8101278
this. Most novels produced by women are sentimentalist clickbait but that doesnt mean that Alice Munro doesnt exist
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>>8101088
>he cant give an example
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>>8101082
Came here to post this.
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What about The collections of short stories of flannery O'connor? Can those be considered masterpieces, or just excellent pieces of literature?
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>>8101304
Enjoy seriously

And this isnt even addressing obvious examples like Wharton, Austen, Dickinson, >>8101298, etc
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Women can be talented, but they can't ever be geniuses.

A genius can write a book for all people and all times. Women can only write for themselves and maybe their in-group. Only men can be geniuses.
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>>8101310
I'm not reading that roast whore trash. I don't want to hear about muh oppreshun and muh periods
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>>8101226
This is the most embarrassing post I've read all week, thankfully it's Monday
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>>8101324
Name ONE male author who has written a book for all people and all times.
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>>8101330
i dont agree with him, but rimbaud, shakepeare, proust
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>>8101330
Too many to count. Women can't however, because they're feeble-minded and can only write about muh patriarchy
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>>8101330
plato, cervantes, ovid, homer, chaucer
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>>8101334
>>8101338
These all suck, therefore they have failed to write for me.
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>>8101341
>buttshattered roastwhore feminist cuck damage control

Give up, already. Men are talking here. Go to the kitchen and make us sandwiches, whore
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>all the answers so far
>all the possible answers

that is just a complicated way to say: No.
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>>8101341
He said "people."

>>8101346
Agreed.
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>>8101266

>He can't conceive of proper misogyny

They are, as Schopenhauer said, 'big children' - neither to be hated, nor particularly sought. For me, it's sheer indifference; I've gone through life quite happily seeing them as means, rather than ends, and giving Kant the middle finger in doing so.
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>>8101364
WOMEN ABSOLUTELY BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

WILL LIBERALS EVER RECOVER?
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>>8101338
>chaucer
im full on alt-right but he is massively overrated.
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>>8101364

Assholes like you are the reason why my sister is a single mother.
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>>8101351
we already said The Waves
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>>8101384
lol she could just have chosen a white man haha

stupid women are too dumb to think with rationality and logic instead of their stupid emotions

women aren't people, they're OBJECTS. Don't treat them like they aren't.
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>>8101387
>stupid emotions
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>>8101364
Schope's the shit.

>>8101384
Your sister is a single mother because your sister is stupid.
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>>8101387
>white
>man
pick one
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>>8101057
Clarice Lispector
Djuna Barnes
Marguerite Duras

and as people have been saying Dickinson is like one of the glorious poets of all time
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>>8101410
>non-whites
>people
pick one
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>>8101384
>tfw you fuck a tinder slut without a condom
Wonder how many bastards I've sired desu
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>>8101422
lmao get triggered you white nu-male (redundant I know lmao)
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>>8101075
>>8101098
>>8101218
>>8101226
>>8101325
>>8101337
>>8101346
>>8101387
ROBOTS GET OUT
ROOOOOOOOOOO
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>Everybody is getting triggered
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remember when /lit/ wasn't the shitposting hub

because I sure don't
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>>8101387
>>8101396
>>8101424

Hopefully when you kids grow up, you'll see it's not manly to treat women like shit. There's more to them than their fuckign vaginas.
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>>8101447
Proud to say I had a part in making it this way

A few weeks ago I was maintaining about five shitpost threads of my making on the catalog a few days at a time, most got over 50 posts
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>>8101438
>You will never date Anita for several years then lose your virginity to her after you get married
Give me one reason not to kill myself right now
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>>8101459
I'm actually proud of you. God speed, shitpost~san. You're doing his work, after all.
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>>8101455
lol, not to millennial women

they're fucked in the head and have awful personalities, they're totally entitled despite being mostly useless, and they don't serve any purpose other than sex
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>>8101455
>There's more to them than their fuckign vaginas

LOL THIS IS WHAT LIBKEKS UNIRONICALLY BELIEVE

they are nothing but holes, and I will never succumb to such disgusting creatures. They are nothing but insects to me
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>>8101459
I use cuck and nu-male regularly so they become mainstream and worn out as soon as possible.

You could say I'm a meme accelerationist
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>>8101470
This. Modern woman is an entitled worthless slut.

I deserve a conservative, pure, virgin gf because I'm white
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>>8101480
Someone should pose as a leftist faggot and constantly use those words specifically to trigger /pol/ autists who want a sekrit club
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>>8101483
nice meme

all men want that, honey, but they're aware they'll never get it
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>tfw there really is some mad person on /lit/ making dozens of "ironic" /pol/ and /r9k/ posts because they're so fucking mad at /pol/ and /r9k/

top kek
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>>8101310
literally the worst vagina-tier discharge you could possibly mention.
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>>8101517
>I have never been around a real vagina.
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>>8101513
>So cucked by the internet that he thinks people are genuinely upset at /pol/ and /r9k/

Typical nu-male behavior
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>>8101532
are you spooked, darling?
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>>8101525
>My life doesn't revolve around my vagina.. Just because I'm a woman..
>EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS JUST A PATHETIC NON-COOTER UN-VAGINY VIRGINOID WHO HASN'T GOTTEN INSIDE THE SACRED HOLY PUSSY YET *GESTURES SPASTICALLY TO COOTER*
>YOU SHOULD REALLY CARE THAT I'M IMPLYING YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR THIS *FINGERS SELF* MY SACRED YONI.. MY BEAUTIFUL YONI
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>>8101538
>Missing the joke this badly
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>>8101537
It's pronounced "mentally cucked,"cuck
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>>8101538
exquisite post
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>>8101550
looks like I was right
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>>8101538
>virgin frogposters in charge taking banter

wew
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>>8101089
>>8101089
>>8101089

I have not read enough to call it a masterpiece but fuck I loved it

if I don't read it at least another 2-3 times in my life it may not be worth living
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>>8101556
>Nu-males
>ever right
Though if they ever were it would probably happen on some nerd website
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>>8101568
this

ayn rand is the most superiour writer who ever lived and she's a woman, checkmate boys

>who run da world? girls!
>who run da world? girls!
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>>8101480
meme accelerationist
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OP here, roasties please get the fuck out we are trying to talk about books.

>>8101082
Not a masterpiece by any means.
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They are the inspiration to most masterpieces
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>>8101057
Shakespeare was two lesbians, so technically no, because that wasn't a woman.
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>>8101680
shakespeare wasn't no dyke, he was a BLACK MAN, you racist cracka
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>>8101680
>>8101688
i for one welcome our shitpost overlords.
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>>8101575

Is 10th grade as awesome as I remember it?
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>>8101127
This
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Middlemarch and Mrs. Dalloway are probably two of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written. Also, Susan Sontag with Against Interpretation and Mary Douglas with Purity and Danger have two nonfiction masterpieces.
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>>8101057
The Handmaid's Tale

Misogenerds BTFO
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>>8101470
May I ask what purpose you serve?
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>>8101057
Does anyone know this one?
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>>8101218
Satire detected
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>>8102804
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/14/becoming-the-emperor
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>>8101082
lolno
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Black Beauty
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>>8102804

Yeah that's a good book. I liked it enough to buy the first edition.
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>>8101468
Because she'll brainwash you in the process.
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My Antonia and Jane Eyre are as alright
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Wuthering Heights.
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>>8101468
You're not Anthony Burch
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>>8101127
I'm reading Mrs. Dalloway right now, because I met a girl who is bipolar and I want to discuss it with her.
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The Waves is quite good. I personally love atlas shrugged, but it's pretty controversial.
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>>8102763
I tried reading that and I just rolled my eyes at the protagonist.
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Where my Anne of Green Gables niggas at?
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Can Xue, Gertrude Stein, Clarice Lispector, Anna Kavan, Virginia Woolf
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>>8103797
BRUH.
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>>8103797
It's sad that we can't find heroines as good as Anne in today's YA books. I want someone like her to be combined with a fantastical setting.
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>>8103797

right here playa.

be sure to check out the Emily of New Moon trilogy too. iz LIT.
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>>8101057

Anna Karenina
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>>8103840
Already did, brah. I already read most of her books and short stories, including the depressing ones
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>>8101082
this
To The Lighthouse also fits the bill
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>>8103844
:^)
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>>8101437
roastie getting toastie
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>>8103751
You have a thing for the crazy ones? :) nice.

Mrs. Dalloway is fun. It was the first modernist book I read that seemed likable, and helped to change my mind about modernist works.
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>Only one mention of Rand and it's ironic.

I know hating on her is le new hotness but damn if Atlas Shrugged isn't a tour de force.
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>>8101057
Yes. Quite a few. If you have to ask you'd do well to lurk more.
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>>8103989
>new hotness
>new

Anyway I hate her because she was a Jew, her writing is too shitty to waste energy hating.
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I really hope this board isn't filled with as many super virgins as this thread implies.

But ye, the Bronte sisters exist. I hate Austen but she's canon so there's that. Wollstonecraft made Rousseau look silly. I dunnp why am i contributing to this shitpost
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>>8101729
The two lesbians thing was an actual theory espoused at an academic convention. Some weird shit.
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>>8104375
I don't hate Austen by I'm reading Emma right now and I'm not feeling it. Montgomery and Dickens did the whole social satire thing funnier, imho.
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>>8104383
I am not surprised. Lots of people are forcing LGBT shit to old literature nowadays.
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>>8104375
>virgin

Stop virgin-shaming cunt. No-one thinks your stupid wet hole is worth getting falsely accused of rape because the next morning you regret behaving like a whore.
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Imagine a life where you have never been great at anything, never felt the urge to be great at anything, never felt that magnetic admiration to someone who was great at something, wanted to imitate and ultimately defeat him. Just nothing. Literally all you do in life is exist. Occupy space. pass the time. You're a chick.

You're bored, tweeting about your fucking hair and not even feeling any kind of happiness from it, just soothing your constant need to be bitter and cunty and petty toward other women. Every single thing you've done in the past year was mundane, shallow, and boring. You spent the last six hours reading kinda-interesting Reddit stories about people who made interesting Halloween hats for their kids or some stupid bullshit that you think is interesting and you may say is interesting but you're not really sure if it's really interesting. You're just fucking sitting there, gestating, fermenting, with a moist hole between your legs that guarantees you'll at least never have to get up and move around and work to support yourself.

And then you see men, over in some corner, having fun. You've never seen this before. What are they even doing? Instead of their consciousnesses merely sitting in their thick skull and revolving around itself, they are imbuing their conscious energy and intentionality into external objects, crafts, goals, projects. All the bitterness and cuntiness you feel nonstop seems to be absent, as they congratulate each other for being victorious, and happily learn from someone who defeated them. These creatures are truly content to be alive. They have found purpose in a purposeless universe.

And your gaze turns back on itself, on your self, and you realise you've never had that. You can never have it. You're just a stupid cunt.

So you get up, you walk over there, and you fucking ruin everything. Just ruin the whole fucking thing. The five seconds of attention you get will be worth destroying it. Because you're a woman.
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>>8101089
>prose that a 5 year old could write
>one dimensional characters
>autistic lines of dialogue
>1000 full of the same old political bullshit that in total could fill 3 pages at the most
>not to mention an extremely autistic and terribly thought out ideology behind it all.
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>>8101127
>Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Yes
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Finnegans Wake
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Dark Spring - Unica Zurn
The Lost Lunar Baedeker - Mina Loy
The Abyss - Marguerite Yourcenar
Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson
Virginia Woolf - Diaries
The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Cotter's England - Christina Stead
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
A Legacy - Sybille Bedford
The Poems of Laura Riding
Ivy Compton Burnett
Collected Poems - Charlotte Mew
Quartet - Jean Rhys
Complete Poems - Edith Sodergran
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney - Henry Handel Richardson
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>>8101438
Do you think she likes anal? I bet she likes anal.
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>>8104815
>Dark Spring - Unica Zurn
>Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the "impure" mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described "the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood." Dark Spring is the story of a young girl's simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the "mad love" so romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists. Unica Zürn (1916-1970) emigrated in 1953 from her native Berlin to Paris in order to live with the artist Hans Bellmer. There she exhibited drawings as a member of the Surrealist group and collaborated with Bellmer on a series of notorious photographs of her nude torso bound with string.

lol

Delusional.
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agata christie?
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The only good one I've read is Sigrid Undset
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>>8105161
Which work?
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>>8105167

The Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy
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>>8105170
thanks
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Flannery O'Connor - Everything that Rises Must Converge AND The Violent Bear it Away
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
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>>8101088
You seem triggered.
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Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Stay mad boys :^)
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>>8101470
I'm not a misoginist by any means, but most girls I know are depressed narcissists. There are many who are fantastic, but the majority of modern females have a lot of issues stemming from real insecurities our culture feeds into. It doesn't help that a general trend I've noticed is that a lot of women compete against eachother in friendgroups, rather than in the more jovial way a lot of my male friends would do to each other - things like insane diets or even grades or children or men. But when you talk about half the planet, those generalisations will be as formless as the sea.
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>>8102804
Yourcenar is a pretty enjoyable writer
>pic also related
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>>8105994
>females
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>>8101330

John Williams
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>>8101468
implying Anita doesn't just fuck men she think is hot and destroy the reputations of men she finds problematic, whether or not she's fucked them.
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Frankenstein
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>>8104495
You sound like a SJW.
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