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4989630 No.4989630[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Let's face it:

/lit/ would love Franzen if he looked cool.

>> No.4989644

>>4989630
I would love him if he didn't literally stop his books to tell me about the environment. It's like they have ad breaks, except the ads are informercial-length and hosted by Al Gore wearing a Franzen character meat suit.

Also he is all substance and no glamour, which is just fucking drudgery. Especially when the substance is not substantial.

>> No.4989647

>>4989630
even if you "looked cool" nobody would like you

>> No.4989681

i think he's quite dashing

doesn't make me like him any more

>> No.4989733

>>4989644
C'mon now, only Freedom is the only one like that. The Corrections barely touches on that, same for Strong Motion.

>> No.4989790

He has always looked like a Muppet but I would think him a bore, his adulation of Edith Wharton disturbing, and his translation in The Kraus Project a monumental waste of time.

>> No.4989795

>>4989790
*regardless

>> No.4989821

A certain subsection of /lit/ would love him if he looked cool, yeah. The subsection that pushes the idea that your ability to write well is intrinsically linked to how many drugs you've done & how cool you look as you moodily smoke a cigarette while leaning on the hood of a car as the sun rises over the Nevada desert & all that shit.

But not everyone on /lit/ is like htat. Thank god.