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>> No.23356046

Literally any book that was written before 1990 and not by a woman.

>> No.23356121
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>> No.23356131

>>23356040
One of my favourite books.

>> No.23356196

>>23356040
fujo book

>> No.23356667

>>23356121
Written by a woman, though?

>> No.23356746

>>23356667


YES.

>> No.23356867

>>23356667
>implying women understand themselves

>> No.23357534

>>23356040
It's extraordinary how snobbish and boring and soft-headed this book is in a sort of neo-Beverly Nichols vein
>He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty that in extreme youth cries aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind
>The languor of youth (sorry, Youth) -how unique and quintessential it is!
>I was made free of her narrow loins
I may have missed the irony, but I cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun

>> No.23357558

>>23357534
>he doesn’t appreciate Waugh’s prose styling
Of all the fuckers on this board who are NGMI, you are going to NGMI the most.

>> No.23357570

>>23357558
Decline and Fall is one of my favourite books. Why is it that he thought that the way to avoid writing as he did in the 30’s (which was quite well) is to write as BAD WRITERS did in the 30’s?

>> No.23357573

>>23356040
Stoner

>> No.23357578

>>23357570
He explained that himself:
>"It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster – the period of soya beans and Basic English – and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful."

>> No.23357589
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>>23357578
>I find distasteful
makes two of us

>> No.23357739

>>23357534
You might be uncultured or retarded. Waugh’s prose is some of the best ever written in English in the 20th century.

>>23357573
Definitely.

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>>23356667
>It's ma'am

>> No.23357987

>>23357981
Sorry, I thought you were replying to the OP

>> No.23358064

>>23356046
False. You don't read.

>> No.23358167

>>23357981
How I wish he’d never died.

>> No.23358193

>>23357589
Reddit passage.

>> No.23359391

>>23358167
His death was a mercy. He would spend 110% of his time seething at the modern world. This is a man who thought radios were too much technology. Show him a smartphone and he would eat his service revolver within seconds.

>> No.23359468

>>23356040
You mean because it's about 'male' love? Haven't read it, but I've read that's a central theme.

>> No.23359561

Literally The Bell Jar.

>> No.23360446

>>23356040
>Author is Evelyn Waugh
>Evelyn
>books women will never understand
lmao /lit/ gets more retarded weekly.

>> No.23360470
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itt shutins who don't understand women and have never seen a woman naked since they were shat out of their mother's dribbling cunt.

>> No.23360476

>>23360470
Lol faggot

>> No.23360491

>>23360470
Do you think women understand how we think and act 100%? Angry shut-ins are just male Wine aunts

>> No.23360521

>>23360470
Pudsy popped p like a bee sting