American literature - /lit/ (#24598887) [Archived: 96 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/1/2025, 1:56:27 AM No.24598887
343
343
md5: f5988923d76b0d09a6185c99cfc7d653๐Ÿ”
>favorite author
>favorite novel
>favorite poem
>favorite short story
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:28:20 AM No.24599064
>me
>mine
>mine
>mine
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:38:19 AM No.24599085
>>24599064
Post work
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 4:08:06 AM No.24599162
>>24598887 (OP)
1st and 2nd

Cormac / Melville
Moby Dick / Blood Meridian
Bartleby / Old Man and the Sea
Song of Myself / Thantatopsis
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 4:57:28 AM No.24599249
Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom
I haven't read much US poetry
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 5:23:22 AM No.24599281
>>24598887 (OP)
Faulkner
Tender Is the Night
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Bartleby the Scrivener
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 5:28:52 AM No.24599288
>Poe
>Cold Mountain
>The Raven
>Fall of the House Usher
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 5:36:28 AM No.24599305
>>24598887 (OP)
Steinbeck
The Godfather
Raven, it's the only one I know.
Of Mice and Men
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 6:21:53 AM No.24599377
>>24598887 (OP)
Nabokov
Pale Fire
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Silent Towns (I don't read many short stories though)
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 6:23:57 AM No.24599382
>>24598887 (OP)
>Willa Cather
>Absalom, Absalom or Sometimes a Great Notion
>The Waste Land
>A Perfect Day for Bananafish or A Good Man is Hard to Find
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 6:27:42 AM No.24599388
>>24598887 (OP)

>James Madison
>the Constitution
>the first amendment
>the Fourth amendment

Fuck you continentals, we took our constitution from the Iroquois nation of America.
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 6:38:19 AM No.24599407
>>24599382
John Ashbery
The Day of the Locust
Flow Chart
One of Washington Irving's Christmas shorts in Geoffrey Crown
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 7:14:43 AM No.24599472
>>24599377
Kek
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 7:55:51 AM No.24599539
>>24598887 (OP)
Is that Sydney Sweeney? She has great genes.
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 9:25:15 AM No.24599661
Gw1SSc9WgAMYrgE (1)
Gw1SSc9WgAMYrgE (1)
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>>24599539
>Is that Sydney Sweeney?
Not at all. Sydney has bigger tits.
>She has great genes.
Sydney is ugly. Mid genes. The tits do all the work.
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:19:54 PM No.24600075
>>24599661
Keep seething, leftoid. Titler is here to stay.
Replies: >>24600205
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:31:34 PM No.24600091
9780143105954
9780143105954
md5: b1058463f046ca0c426583da9636bffb๐Ÿ”
i've only just started Moby Dick (50 pages) but how is this not objectively just the best thing written since Paradise Lost
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:33:20 PM No.24600093
>>24600091
If it were, youโ€™d have no way of discerning it
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:33:44 PM No.24600094
>>24600093
it's pretty obvious to me ngl
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:43:15 PM No.24600106
>>24600091
How is it?
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 3:51:05 PM No.24600110
>>24600091
the early part is good but the book definitively drags on a bit too much with all of the chapters concerned with whale anatomy and whaling techniques etc and the language is outdated/specialist to the point of hurting enjoyment
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 4:28:31 PM No.24600146
>>24598887 (OP)
>favorite author
Thomas Pynchon
>favorite novel
The Sot Weed Factor
>favorite poem
The Skeleton in Armor
>favorite short story
Young Goodman Brown
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 5:10:03 PM No.24600205
>>24600075
>leftoid
lmao just being objective.
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 5:34:58 PM No.24600243
>>24599661
Genuinely mid face thereโ€™s 20 of her in every small southern town in America. Huge tits and inbred retard face
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 8:12:38 PM No.24600557
>>24598887 (OP)
Guy who wrote foe
Foe
Fanfiction.net
Americans are garbage
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Anonymous
8/1/2025, 9:30:08 PM No.24600751
>>24600557
Brown hands typed this.
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 9:32:53 PM No.24600767
>>24598887 (OP)

Hunter Thompson
Tropic of Cancer
Bluebird
The Legend of Sleeping Hollow
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 10:08:43 PM No.24600845
>>24599407
>>24599382
>>24599162
Based
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 10:28:02 PM No.24600880
>>24599085
It's that pussy F Gardner, he ain't gonna post shit.
Anonymous
8/1/2025, 10:38:37 PM No.24600905
>>24599472
That wasn't a joke
Anonymous
8/2/2025, 10:10:22 AM No.24602180
Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Annabel Lee
The Masque of the Red Death