Who is the North American author most similar to Dickens?

>>24472034 (OP)
A good American writer? Can't think of any.

>>24472034 (OP)
Philip K. Dick

>>24472034 (OP)
Mark Twain probably.

>>24472138
This

>>24472079
>>24472138
Why?

>>24472034 (OP)
Edith Wharton

>>24472213
Isn't she better compared to Jane Austen?

>>24472180
>>24472138

I'm not seeing it. What novels are you talking about?

>>24472367
No way. Wharton is like a low B tier while Austen is solid A tier.

>>24472034 (OP)
Melville

Honor Levy.

>>24472504
>So many modern books will age extremely poorly because they're referencing the most niche bullshit only extremely online mental patients will understand

>>24472034 (OP)
Why do modern authors take embarrassing pictures like this?

>>24472531
Like who besides her?

>>24472531
It is not embarassing. You have to analyze. She is crawling through the "doggy" door in order to get "ducked." It's a beautiful, poetic image that sums up her work.

>>24472540
What does that even mean?

>>24472551
She's crawling through the doggy door to get ducked.

google search suggests el doctorow but based on the two books of his ive read i disagree

>>24472551
She is crawling through the "back door" or "doggy door" of the house, in search of a beautiful "duck" and she has a "pink purse" in her arm, expecting it to "get filled" or stuffed with "something." What the something is is anybody's guess. It's kind of like trick or treating. It might be that she expects $$$ or it could be a "big black clock."

It's brilliant. I have to look up the work of this photographer.

>>24472555
>>24472564
>niggas when they see shawty with a female duck

>>24472504
I hate it but like the vibe.

>>24472555
The mind of the atheist, they see a woman and immediately think of beastiality. Subhuman trash golem of the jews.

would love to give her a dickens

>>24473925
Mind broken.

>>24472375
Advice: read Wharton. They're both up there

>>24472034 (OP)
Thomas Pynchon

>>24472367
Different. She's like Henry James in a clear mode. Late 19th century American society is just too different from the early 19th century English countryside to make a meaningful comparison. Both are excellent writers

If I was behind her, I'd look away out of embarrassment. I can't look at her behind! No I'm not a pervert! Please don't think I'm a pervert...

Is there a single American novel that is like a Dickens novel?

>>24474463
VALIS

>>24472079
>>24474468
Based and true

>>24472034 (OP)
Who's this semen demon?

>>24474553
Honora Levitica Regina, Queen of /lit/

>>24474558
I'd like to have sex with her and cum on her face if you catch my drift

>>24472034 (OP)
Hey, where did you find this photo of my Jewish au pair?

>>24472504
I feel bad that I can read it.

>>24473925
If you had seen any of her dogshit posts on here, you'd understand. She comes on here to self-shill all the time, only recently she's started doing it without namefagging. She's probably in this thread right now. (spooky)

>>24472034 (OP)
This makes me think of petplay/animal play, which is extremely hot. Making a girl behave like a dog or a cat or some other animal as part of the sexual act. Naturally because I am a fatfag and enjoy large ladies, it's pigplay for me. Making a girl wear ears and a curly tail, and oink and snort. It's very hot. There's some videos of BBW porn stars doing it that are quite hot.

>>24475872
I was at a neighbourhood party once when I was a kid, and all the parents were drunk and egging me on to crawl through the doggy-door.
I did it, obviously. They all laughed and clapped.

>>24472504
Hold up, they put aspartame in lip gloss??

>>24475898
That sounds like childhood trauma to me

>>24474214
>She's like Henry James in a clear mode
So not at all like James

>>24477035
Daisy Miller, Portrait, Washington Square, and many of the stories are very clear-- and Wharton's best novels are at least better than these (Age of Innocence, House of Mirth). Where Wharton and James are most similar is in their Travel writing, but then they often traveled together, so

>>24477316
>they often traveled together
were they fucking?

>>24477495
Kek. Anon, please

>>24475898
something out of cheever