Are there any authors that IQfy universally likes?
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Are there any authors that IQfy universally likes?
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Montaine
I havent been filtered by many books, but Charles Cotton's translation (the one free on gutenberg) of Montaigne did me in completely.
I remember reading one of his longest essays for nearly 2 hours straight. I was getting tired beyond belief but also too pissed to drop it.
Chekhov is barely mentioned here but whenever he is, there is not a word but of praise about him
Chekhov sucks ass
Not THAT Chekov!
Chekhov is my hero.
Sometimes a Great Notion
Lonesome Dove
Warlock
I don’t see many bad things about these books. Every popular book will always have a dissenting voice because of contrarians. As the anon above said, Montaigne is well regarded here (and everywhere, really) but I’ve seen a few “Christians” smear him
please don't raise awareness about warlock. this board has wiped it's ass with enough masterpieces already.
Cormac McCarthy
David Foster Wallace
Ernest Hemingway
All universally beloved and universally American
>David Foster Wallace
wtf are you talking about
I would argue each of them gets hated on just as much here
Theirs a vocal minority that hates Mccarthy to either be contrarian or because he's spammed all the time in threads
nice memes kid
I hate McCarthy
I've never seen someone shit on Aristotle
You hate one of the greatest authors of all time? Okay
Yes, a lot of people here hage at least one, it's not something weird. His style is unreadable to me, I have to read each sentence 3 or 4 times to suppose what's the meaning.
hate*
There are people on this board, maybe in this very thread, who hate Jane Austen.
It's a crazy world. Stay close to your loved ones
>I've never seen someone shit on Aristotle
It was the norm to trash Aristotle from around 1600 to 1800 and some of it is tacitly repeated on IQfy even if rarely explicit or focused on.
>Turns out she was talking about the Hasan discord
melville
I want to marry her.
me
Definitely not. Any recognition of universal acceptance would bring contrarians out of the woodwork. The much more interesting question would just be who has the most net popularity or maybe even whose reputation on IQfy is furthest from their reputation outside of IQfy (other than contemporary female and poc writers).
There are a handful of writers who skirt the fine line of being praised but also not memed/generally popular enough to be a target of scorn, with the end result that you see the occasional strong admiration but no shitposters who even know how to mock them. Off the top of my head I'd apply that to
>Oakley Hall
>Turgenev
>Sherwood Anderson
>Hermann Broch
>John Dos Passos
>Nicholson Baker
When brought up, nobody ever disparages them. Compare those to "big" figures for IQfy like Faulkner or Nabokov or Pynchon, who have ready-made shitposting lines to call them bad that you don't necessarily need to know anything about them to ape.
I disparage Turgenev constantly in my inner voice
>Nicholson Baker
HAHAHAHA shut the frick up you terminally online ~~*pomo*~~ twatter loser. Dude is a hack and you and Max Dyel Lawton cult need to frick off
What a bizarre post. I don't have a twitter or keep up with whatever homosexual trends you're talking about and I've got no idea who Lawton is supposed to be.
I have never once seen Baker's name mentioned outside of comfy Mezzanine threads. You're clearly the terminally online one here.
Melville and Tolstoy
no
Nabakov
Probably Sayaka Murata, only people here who don't seem to like her are racist who learn about her for the first time
mark twain
I've never seen someone who disliked mark twain who was neither moronic nor a true scotsman
Plato- Many (most?) disagree with him but no one here disagrees that the questions he asked kickstarted all of western thought and everything which came after. Everyone's favorite thinkers and philosophers are indebted to Plato as they owe him their existence. Aristotle, Marx, Stirner, Hegel, Kant - all of em. You all love Plato by default.
Uhh you're thinking of Socrates, who didn't write anything down
Irrelevant nitpicking. Please get lost.
lmao Plato was a moron dude. Nobody reads his books for HIS ideas
Socrates only existed as Plato’s self insert
He existed in Aristophanes and Xenophon too but it’s not like anyone cares about those depictions of him.
Hey, people care about Aristophanes! It's just that nobody assumes that "Clouds" was supposed to be anything beyond a charicature of Socrates.
Haven't seen anyone hate on Lewis Carroll.
Apart from the pedophilia, that is.
Slander.
You mean libel.
Bulgakov and Nabokov
Balzac
damn, what an embarrassing shirt
I'm gonna guess most of her activity is "somebody should do something about this! like this post if you agree!"
out of touch
>taking a joke this seriously
no wonder you frickers can't get laid
um i'll have you know that i have had sex with two whole women
"I never fricked a ten, but one night, I fricked 5 twos!" -George Carlin
Not worth a thread but something meta I have always been curious about: To what extent does IQfy tend to recognize a difference between literature and philosophy? It's not clear because based on how it looks IQfy sees only a blurred, if any, line between literature and philosophy, but this could be for lack of a philosophy board or because of a deeply shared gradient between the two. I think this is great and I am really grateful for IQfy working this boundary out of my head. In education they're discussed like totally separate subjects so without an outside perspective it's a matter of finding a place like IQfy to begin really appreciating comparisons between like, Pynchon and Aristotle.
Pure Reasonposters are based and always make me smile.
Jane Austen, apparently
I'm pretty sure I've never seen any hate on Alexandre Dumas. Auguste Maquet is sometimes mentioned, but that's about it
Homer
Eric Carle
No one has ever said anything negative about the Pendle Hill Pamphlets that the Religious Society of Friends have been writing.
This is categorically the only correct answer.
Jules Verne, I like his scientific fiction.
Appolonius of Rhodes, he is better at homeric similes than homer.
Dante.
Michael Hitzik writes American History.
Fitzgerald or atleast I have never seen anyone on here call him a hack
John “Stoner” Williams
roald dahl maybe?
Don't think I've seen anything against LeGuin, which is odd since she was a woman and quite left leaning
Hermann Broch
Robert Musil
Jaroslav Hasek
Rabelais
Witold Gombrowicz
Thomas Bernhard
Heinrich Böll
W.G. Sebald
Lol no. Did you just recently discover and read these writers, and felt the need to post because you think you have good taste?