!bookworms, which authors you find overrated? Which popular one's do you believe are absolute hacks?
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Ursula Le Guin, not bad just horribly overrated by redditors.
Thomas Pynchon same as above but by /lit/.
James Joyce is and always was a hack.
Whoever wrote House of Leaves was also a hack because it was boring as frick.
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!bookworms redpill me on Thomas Pynchon, he's been mentioned in several comments on this thread. I have Mason & Dixon downloaded on my Kindle but I haven't read it yet.
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First
read The Crying 
of Lot 49, then V, and finally Gravity's Rainbow.
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pynchon has an incredibly long winded and forgettable writing style
i've heard good things about mason & dixon, but after reading a good portion of gravity's rainbow and the crying of lot 49 i've become redpilled on him
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What is your level of education? This reads like a take from someone that failed
out of community college. Some art is inaccessible to the masses and that's okay. Stick 
to Harry 
Potter.
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Love him. Probably the most knowledgeable author in existence. You'll be reading and constantly find obscure references to the arts/science/history that makes you gigle, and then you'll eventually learn that for every reference you spotted there were another dozen that flew over your head. He's just fun and maximalist.
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He also skirts the two cultures divide. Studied either eng or physics, but took a course taught by Nabakov and switched majors.
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zomg she made le fantasy characters brown!!!!!! Chuds heckin pwned
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SHE MADE THE HECKING ALIENS SWITCH THEIR SEXES. GENDER NORMS ARE NOW SMASHED AND SLAMMED
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That book was funny because it evened out to describing everyone as male except when they were being irrational
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Joyce was divinely inspired, I will not hear such mick hate
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