as if! this is like six authors. There are many more than six authors on the earth.
Last night my old man was loudly playing the guitar during a conversation and I had this nauseating flashback to high school as well. Dudes loudly playing the guitar while you sit worshipfully before them.
YOUNG DUDE BEHAVIOR! Informing you that Bukowski is great and then making you listen to them read it for an hour, then playing Dark Side of the Moon over and over again on an acoustic guitar while you're sitting there like "for this I'm wasting my one hour of free time after study hall" but then when they finally put down the guitar and awkwardly start frenching you YOU LET THEM!
YOU LET THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND IT'S SO AWESOME, THE FRENCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the point is that there are some authors who just really lend themselves to all that is most insufferable in a teenager, both boy (all the aforementioned writers) and girl (Tom Robbins), and this is kind of interesting. And so then it's like you grow up and can only see Bukowski as incredibly juvenile and stunted because he appeals so specifically to 17 year old boys. He's the Michael Bay of poetry.
Yeah, we've listed only a few authors so far, but it could be really long. What is truly going on is that teenagers are insufferable no matter what they're reading.
Are there any authors that make teens wonderful and pleasant?
I for one am not blaming anybody. I'm merely saying that if a grown-ass man had these preferences, which I so associate with that dumb just-starting-out pretentious teenaged worldview, I would steer clear of frenching him.
Didn't anybody else read Steinbeck and really love him as a teen? He's good, right? It's been a long time. I feel like reading his books helped me "connect" with "the world" in a new way, even if it was a sad connection for the most part.
I am the boss, ask me what else is good and I will inform you.
I'm the Tim Tebow of reading habits
STEINBECK 4EVER
Any teen boy who was into Steinbeck would receive a frenching from me post-haste!
(all this talk of frenching is sadly ironic, for very few boys actually wished to french me at this time. I'm speaking metaphorically I guess, about whether or not I would deign to bestow a frenching upon various of them. Obviously given a choice at that time in my life I would've frenched pretty much anybody)
You are so wise to hold out on F for C. I am all caught up and now every couple of days I am struck with sorrow that it will be YEARS before another GoT book I can read!!!!!!!
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this is like six authors. There are many more than six authors on the earth.
Last night my old man was loudly playing the guitar during a conversation and I had this nauseating flashback to high school as well. Dudes loudly playing the guitar while you sit worshipfully before them.
YOUNG DUDE BEHAVIOR! Informing you that Bukowski is great and then making you listen to them read it for an hour, then playing Dark Side of the Moon over and over again on an acoustic guitar while you're sitting there like "for this I'm wasting my one hour of free time after study hall" but then when they finally put down the guitar and awkwardly start frenching you YOU LET THEM!
YOU LET THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND IT'S SO AWESOME, THE FRENCHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are there any authors that make teens wonderful and pleasant?
Does Vonnegut improve teens? I think so.
mccullers
maybe some charming frenchman like if you were a twee kid who got really into baudelaire or something
Edward Abbey! My call
Austen
The worldview is so incredibly narrow, they can't help but swoon over pretentious books.
I blame no teen for their reads. READ ON, DUMMIES!
I am the boss, ask me what else is good and I will inform you.
I'm the Tim Tebow of reading habits
STEINBECK 4EVER
Any teen boy who was into Steinbeck would receive a frenching from me post-haste!
(all this talk of frenching is sadly ironic, for very few boys actually wished to french me at this time. I'm speaking metaphorically I guess, about whether or not I would deign to bestow a frenching upon various of them. Obviously given a choice at that time in my life I would've frenched pretty much anybody)
You are so wise to hold out on F for C. I am all caught up and now every couple of days I am struck with sorrow that it will be YEARS before another GoT book I can read!!!!!!!
I always liked that Thoreau thought of his time in the woods as a business matter,
But yeah, "no frenching sanctimonious snots" is a policy I can support.
worth saying twice