Why does /lit/ always have dozens of threads about the same three or four uneducated American hicks, but never talks about the greatest English novelist to ever live?It's because she's a woman and women read her, right?
>>24758600Dickens is better, sorry.
Because 99% of this board are retards who don't read books. Now look how the following replies are all mongrels talking shit about the author being a woman.
I liked P&P but I couldn't be bothered to read her other books. I started reading Silas Marner earlier this year, loved the first chapter, but as time went on, I found myself being increasingly bored. I don't know how to describe it well, but Mary Ann Evans writes these really *airy* and overly abstract descriptions of characters that work really well when they land but confuse me when they don't. I also think that Dunsey Cass is the most cartoonishly evil character I've come across in a novel and that whole sequence wherein he kills Godfrey's horse and just so happens to wander into Marner's shack and just so happened to find the money that he carefully stashed is absurd.
>>24758659>I also think that Dunsey Cass is the most cartoonishly evil character I've come across in a novel and that whole sequence wherein he kills Godfrey's horse and just so happens to wander into Marner's shack and just so happened to find the money that he carefully stashed is absurd.Based contrivance hater. I can trust your judgment in writing now.
I prefer George Eliot.
I have nothing against Austen or the Janeites, but>the greatest English novelist to ever liveis going a bit far, isn’t it? She’s certainly one of the greatest, and certainly she is under-discussed here because she’s a woman. Next time, you should just make a thread about something you’d actually like to talk about.
>>24758600>uneducated American hicksShalom, rabbi!
>>24758600That's not Thackeray
>>24758812He's got one book. Just one book.
>>24758716Settle down, Cletus. Didn't they teach you in your Bible study to respect and defend Israel?
Styles are too different and there are too many heavyweights to have a true greatest, but she's up there on the small list of big names. Her presence at non-American anglosphere universities is also significantly stronger.
>>24758616His prose is shit but his characters and stories are great.
>>24758819Barry Lyndon and Vanity Fair. That's two.
>>24758600My guess is most of the board is composed of American men in their 20s, that's why the discussion leans to American lit.
>>2475891230s through 40s would be a closer estimate I imagine.
>>24759168definitely wrong about that
>>24758907>His prose is shitMaybe if you're retarded.
>attempting to put on airs about dickenslol
>>24758600>It's because she's a woman and women read her, right?It's fitting you're on a literature board because you read me like an open book
>>24759260It is bad. It's overwrought, contrived, and overly Latinate. But it doesn't matter because character writing is where he shines. Second best English-language writer after Shakespeare when it comes to characters. No doubt about that.
>>24758600I'm not saying Jane Austen is bad, but Charlotte Brontë is better (and she was no fan either).
>>24759283Dickens was easily a better character writer than Shakespeare, the latter of whom has all his characters speak the same
Imagine reading books written by a woman
>>24759662Women are nice and soft and have fun thoughts
Jane Austen bores the living fuck out of me.
>>24759468And Flannery O’Connor is even better.
>>24760495Uneducated American hick par excellence. She writes barbaric grotesqueries and furthermore she's racist.
>>24760505>furthermore she's racist.kek knew this was a thread by the "femcel" poster. kill yourself.
>>24759468Obvious and true statement.
>>24759468Surely you mean Emily THOUGH.
>>24758600That isn't Eliot.
>>24758829You are brown and gay
She probably gets discussed here more than any other English novelist, and if not, she’s easily in the top three discussed English novelists
>>24758912Russian and French novels are popular here too.
>>24761000I have never seen maybe three Austen threads in as many years.
>>24760914Fair point. If we ever got to see Emily's second book (probably destroyed by Charlotte), I suspect there wouldn't have been any doubt about it.
>>24760505>She writes barbaric grotesqueriesand Austen writes caquetage mondainread some poetry you fucking loser
>>24758600Because only Persuasion is an actual work of art, and the others are just genre work with amusing dialogue? Two Brontes, Eliot, Woolf, Spark, P.Fiztgerald all shit on the mundane Jane.
