>>338446

You best be trolling.

>>338455
You wish.

No one else read this book?

havent read it sorry

looks boring honestly

Greatest American novel of all time.

It's one of the most beautiful American novels ever written. If you read the ending, you'd know that. It's about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Ya fuck knuckle.

OP....You do realize this is an extremely popular book right? Steinbeck won a Nobel for this book specifically.

Anyway, I've read it three times. I prefer East of Eden personally.

is american prose that bad if this is the greatest?

>>338726
maybe if OP posted the great gatsby

>>338733

You win Nobel prizes for your collective body of work. Pulitzers are given on an individual basis.

>>338740

0/10 You're not even trying.

Everyone on /lit/ has read this.

It's a pretty okay book. Reading for class sucked but it was good.

>>338749
it was an honest question! because i wouldn't call such a boring book great or even greatest, probably just ok or good, a book to be flicked through, dropped and forgotten, colorless and faded. is this all america's produced?

>>338733
Some girl told me to read that today! then she sucked my penis. Thanks for the reminder!

>>338758

Dipping into negative numbers, buddy.

>>338786
doesnt that mean i not trolling at all

>>338804

no, it means your trolling is so remarkably terrible it's sub-zero. Also admission of guilt in your post. Also John Steinbeck was one of the last Great American storytellers so you can stop typing about how terrible American prose is from your comfortable little den in Urbana, Illinois or whatever American city you're in.

>>338838
well if that's Great America poo-eeeeee

wait is thomas pynchon british or american one sec i'll check

thats like seventh grade reading OP

steinbeck is primary school essentials

>>338845
wow he's american he always struck me as extremely brittish
ok so thomas pynchon and william burroughs can be my great america
fuck you mr steinbeck god all your books are mostly mumbly evanglism in the first place heh

>>338851

>yeah, because there are NO religious overtones in any of Pynchon's work.

>>338878
not the shitty kind and not books full of that

>>338895

Please, define "the shitty kind" oh benevolent reader of all that is truly literature.

if you would like to read a nonfiction book on the same subject i recomend The King of California

I love Grapes of wrath.Makes you really appreciate all of your food and clothes.

Now of Mice and men,I wept at the end.;_;

>>338902
that ugly moralist strawchewin' lowlife truism bullshit, kind of empty passages get put in quotes at the bottom of diary pages

>>338851

By the way, To a God Unknown would like a word with you about "mumbly evangelism" (PROTIP: It's steeped in Hindu mythology)

>>338915
not like ill ever read it

>>338914

Happy happy poseur fag. "I'm so hardcore, I don't believe in fundamental truisms, look at me, I'm dressed in all black and I shun canonical literature. I'm so cool."

Also, we can keep debating, but let's sage our shit so we can have legit threads on the first page.

>>338926
i am going to pee in your mouth for believing in Fundamental Truisms but prob not god lol ooh no not fairy tales

plus also i only reject shitty Literature aa now i think about itt umm more Old American authors i like, i like melville and also ummm um that other guy..one that wrote the great gatsby @_@ what was it

>>338935

There are such things as fundamental truisms that exist entirely outside of a religious context. lrn2vonnegut. Also, I thought I said sage if we were to continue.

>>338954
wait noo!! i liked sirens of titan ok :3 but everything else oh so shitty boring what a petulant little man

>>338954

>not saging
>not offering adequate reasoning to his own arguments
>clearly out to pick a fight

fuck this shit, come back when you've got something legitimate to say.