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thanks!

That was pretty damn 90s!

Might as well leave this here to spread the word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yqIa8khMqA

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I think I found this one on knowyourmeme. I forget for the Carl one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_EaudNCsO8 I got a shout out.

Who's that Author?! (play pokemon theme and go to commercial)


It's Mikhail Bulgakov! (show commences).

Alexander Pushkin

A 20th century literary movement that involves using the writing style normally associated with realism, then suddenly magic shit happens and creates a massive tone shift. Normally magical events occur in Fairy Tails and "Sword and Sorcery" Fantasy novels that are never written in a realistic tone. For example, at no point does Conan the Barbarian or The Hobbit ever sound like John Steinbeck or Dickens or Chekhov is the one writing.

Firstly, no because Trust and Betrayal is a prequel. It would be more helpful to watch T&B first and then watch Rurouni Kenshin.

On the topic of Gunter, because he was one of the greatest and most influential writers of the 20th century. He started "Magical Realism" before it was independently created by Marquez, and was a large inspiration on the magical realism of Rushdie. He wasn't the first to create a novel where a character represents the people of a nation or some aspect of a nation, but he did it much better than most, and once again had heavy influence on other writers like Marquez and Rushdie. Grass's interpretation of how the Holocaust was allowed to happen was strikingly similar to the currently favored thesis of historian Ian Kershaw, only Grass wrote Tin Drum showing a not aggressively evil, but extremely indifferent and selfish German population over 20 years before Kershaw. Grass was also an absolute master of pitch black humor thrown into his satire. He also was a master of descriptive writing, which unfortunately meant he could write the most stomach churning passages of any writer I've ever seen. People like George RR Martin only WISH they had Gunter's gift for describing the grotesque. Overall, he was a talented motherfucker.

makes sense. You certainly don't have to. It is basically just a long rant more than a review.

Did you actually read my review on Ender's Game? If so, thanks for bothering to take the time. I don't really have issue if you personally liked the novel. My little brother loved the novel and he is a VERY bright guy. He graduated with a degree in aerospace engineering. I understand "Death of the author". There are several works that I like, even though my interpretation may be wildly different from what the author intended. I also have several artists whom I love their work, even though the artist is a complete douche. I'm a HUGE fan of Wagner for example.

I don't hate Lolita, I just think it got overrated. The largest reason that so many people read it was due to the controversy, which Nabokov intentionally provoked by initially refusing to state whether or not he identified with Humbert. Years later after the novel had already sold millions of copies he said, "No, of course I don't sympathize with Humbert! He's an unreliable narrator!" If he had simply said that from the beginning, I kind of have a suspicion that Lolita would likely have joined Pale Fire and basically the rest of Nabokov's bibliography in the land of "books no one has actually read or cares about."

As to why certain authors hate other authors...who knows? They just do. Sometimes they hate the prose. Sometimes they hate the morals or philosophy. Other times they just hate other authors as individuals, so they hate their books by extension.

As for Ender's game...too many reasons to list. I DID write a rather lengthy goodreads review of it.

I actually made a mistake. There were 2 other authors Nabokov actually loved. One was Franz Kafka (Nabokov probably wasn't aware Kafka liked Dostoevsky). The other was oddly enough Lewis Carroll. Well...it would be odd if you didn't know the biographies of both Carroll and Nabokov and the fact that both were latent pedophiles (sexually attracted to pre-pubescent girls, but never any evidence that either actually acted on their desires and abused any children.) Basically if either of them were teens in 2015, they would be HUGE lolicon fans but insist they don't do anything bad in real life, so it isn't weird.