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shirley jackson: mother.
edgar allan poe: weird little guy, associate him with black cats, death, and women (naturally). i have a generalized preference for poetry with meter because of annabel lee, a poem i happen to have memorized in highschool because it is just so delightful to recite. i am very fond of his short stories, and he has a thing for bodies in walls i find interesting.
william blake: lovely. he is a guy that made me like god more than 9 years of religious schooling did.
john milton: another one that did more for my non-existent religiousness than my school - i read the bible for paradise lost. i do have to say that whenever i read paradise lost, i regret not paying a lot of attention to sunday school as a child, because i get the ancient greece references easier than i do bible references.
oscar wilde: i am not going to say Overrated because i do believe he is a great writer, but i will say overworshipped with a rather obnoxious cult following. and i mean tumblr user dark academia lord byronians insufferable english majors who also worship donna tartt.
and his/lord henry’s aphorisms read like the misogynistic quote tweets made by a 30yo gay man obsessed with popcrave/choquei with dorian gray being his pathetic reply person. also house of pomegranates is crazy like?? Hedonism?? on a supposedly children’s book??
donna tartt: i am the tumblr user dark academia lord byronians insufferable english major who also worships donna tartt. im sorry but i like the secret history. and i love the amanita phalloides reference. who does henry winter think he is, lol? me?
bram stoker: i read his letter(s) to walt whitman and they are a little heartbreaking. i used to joke about fanboyism, but cmon. “you have shaken off the shackles and your wings are free. i have the shackles on my shoulders still but i have no wings” like. i get you on a deeply personal level man. also dracula is fucking great congrats
virginia woolf: an entire novel about the Great Legs of the 6’0’’ goddess situationship you once had (orlando). typa shit mf pearl from steven universe would pull.
anne sexton: sylvia plath’s less known sister (on a tumblr perspective)
richard siken: fathered tumblr prose; would perhaps benefit from staying off twitter.
sayaka murata: save me weird women protagonists, save me…
frances hodgson burnett: lovely books if you ignore the racism
mary shelley: god i love your freaky ass lmfao yeah you go girl. only 19 years old when you birthed a genre (mpreg)
patricia highsmith: i literally only read the yuri, so i can only speak for the yuri and not for the crime novels, but nevertheless you go girl. but therese was 19 she shoulda been at da club.
thomas harris: you ruined a beautiful lovely female character for shock value you asshole i will never forgive you for that. but props to you for creating such an interesting guy (hannibal).
dostoevsky: graciliano ramos russo divulgaria bet pra pagar divida
graciliano ramos: i have read 3 books of yours. i loved them all. but you’re not my style.
lygia fagundes telles: makes me want to live. /pos
kafka: makes me want to die. /neg
jorjor wel:1 individualist hypocrite
tomas antonio gonzaga: individualist hypocrite
mark twain: and just like with patricia highsmith, i only ever read the Odd One Out (personal recollections of joan of arc), but i adored it. hope to read huckfinn and the others soon! i also never read capitaes de areia, but i suppose theyre similar.
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