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Hey /lit/ bout to read this.
What can I expect? Will it tell me how to get bankrupted multiple times?
Just read it, jesus fucking christ
>>7683603
>how to get bankrupted multiple times
I think Trump is an insincere demagogue who is playing to the absolute lowest denominator and has no business in the election, and even I know that restructuring your business through bankruptcy is probably some of the smartest shit you can do in his situations.
>>7683603
>Will it tell me how to get bankrupted multiple times?
Haha, upvoted for the win!
>tfw you like the kindle but otherwise hate amazon
Is it still worth buying if you get your legal ebooks from other sources and convert them or would one be better off just getting a Kobo?
>>7678863
Why do you prefer it to the kobo? When I looked they seemed pretty identical.
Most people on /lit/ would simply tell you to pirate your books
>>7678863
>legal ebooks
The kindle is a great product. It doesnt break or go bonkers, or if it does because of a corrupted file you just factory reset it. Ive had my first gen touch for 6 years now, and I have 0 complaints.
I also use Amazon for all major purchases because prime pays for itself. I bought an entire home gym, probably 1/2 a ton of equipment including a deadlift platform and plates for 0 shipping.
That said I pirate 100% of my books.
Name the best work of fiction published in the last 5 years.
Hard mode: no Bleeding Egde, no Pale King.
How is no Bleeding Edge hard mode?
>>7677500
It's to go to answer for memesters, and people who were born in *le wrong generation :^(*
>>7677492
A Brief History of Seven Killings.
post something Borgesian ITTif ur smart enough that is
>>7676323
A voracious reader and celebrated writer becomes blind.
dude like infinity and words LMAO
>>7676323
A box whose contents are unknown can only be opened by a combination of words which form an ineffable word. The problem is, who is the creator of the box and what could possibly be its contents.
template
The fuck did you have to make the template resolution so high, OP?
PLEBIAN: (Insert generally popular author)
CONTRARIAN: (Insert edgy /lit/ author)
PATRICIAN: (Insert someone from the canon/completely obscure)
The dust must have settled by now, and we can begin to appreciate just how autistic this abomination is and what has become of it. The book is enjoying a short-lived highlight on some book blogs and there are people dedicated to reading the entire thing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpe3rJIwv3isMjyNJBzXC5Q
I think it's time to discuss what went so wrong but so right, what could have been done in the hindsight, et cetera. Anyways, alt-/lit/ thread.
>>7671433
Hypersphere is just a Tundra imitation by redditors who weren't here in time to infect the original
le racism and memes
>>7671466
this desu
Why is capitalism bad, /lit/?
Actually, property is literally just.
because it's not fair that anyone has more money than me
I personally don't like it because it doesn't give me stuff for doing nothing in return. The current sort of centrist welfare state I live in does provide me with what I need though. Hybrid economies aren't perfect but they're the best we've got so far.
Is the best literature of the 20th century written in Spanish?
>Borges
>GarcÃa Márquez
>Rulfo
>Fuentes
>Sábato
>Delibes
>Cela
>Vargas Llosa
>etc.
>Is the best literature of the 20th century written in Spanish?
No
/thread
>>7679551
Why?
>>7679559
because Céline and Proust
What was the last book you read?
What are you reading?
What will you read next?
Guess shit about each other basing on their answers.
>What was the last book you read?
El Beso de la Mujer Araña, by Manuel Puig
>What are you reading?
The Decameron by Bocaccio
>What will you read next?
I guess Under The Volcano by Lowry
>What was the last book you read?
Red Dragon
>What are you reading?
Don Quixote
>What will you read next?
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
>What was the last book you read?
The Demons
>What are you reading?
Notes from the underground
>What will you read next?
The falling or the plague
Have you fapped to any book?
>>7670634
yes.
but all too often I read second hand books and library books with pages stuck together at the sex scenes.
>mfw there is a serial ejaculator who gets off into books in my town
>>7670634
Yes
No book has ever been good enough for me to fap to it directly.
/lit/ humour
this image isn't posted here often enough
>>7680098
more like /lit/ tumours because nothing in these threads are funny
>>7680098
PURE IDEOLOGY
*sniff*
So I'm doing a paper on the works of Tolkien, and we just had a lecture todday on how The Lord of the Rings is essentially racist because of its Eurocentrism.
Is this really a valid criticism? Is it wrong for a man to write a story that takes inspiration from his own ancestry and culture? I feel like this is something that only a white man could be criticized for.
>>7676681
It is a racist culture which it's taking inspiration from. Think about how sauron is the good guy
>>7676688
Suaron is of the same race as the more noble men in LotR, he has just become corrupted. I dont see how that's racist.
No, it is not a valid crticisim. It is a wonderfully entertaining book written by a man with a very inoffensive worldview.
So how is Houellebecq? My university adviser loves and said If I liked pessimistic stuff I should check him out. What do you guys think? What books of his did you like or dislike?
he's extremely easy/quick reading, just have a go at it.
>>7673003
DUDE MUSLIMS LMAO
>>7673039
Don't really care about that either way.
How can you avoid cluttery dialogue? Most of my writing seems to feel like
"Text," PersonA said.
"Text?" PersonB asked.
"Text," PersonC said.
Is this alright or is there a better way to do it?
>>7672765
vary it up, give them physical motions. And often times you can inform who the speaker is by context, so you dont need to label them for each line..
And if someone is asking a question and you end it with a ?, you dont need to say "they asked"
Anon noticed the thread and wanted to help OP.
-Why doesn't he just do it like Joyce?
He then proceeded to write a meta post as an example.
-It may free you from having to think of synonyms of said, you only have to do it when you need to.
He remarked smilingly.
>>7672765
unnecessary
once established that its conversation between person a and person b, take out 'who-said-what'
example:
"Text," PersonA said.
"Text?" PersonB asked
"PersonA replies, continues conversation?"
"It's called running dialogue, dumbass."
"Honestly, Colin, I never expected that sort of behavior from you,"
"Eat my metaphorical shit, Martha. Fuck you, and your unseasoned chicken."
Does anyone know what happened to Megan Boyle?
Her book "Liveblog" was supposed to come out today but didn't for some reason (per amazon). She hasn't updated any social media/tumblr/etc for months or years. Her publisher has zero mention of her or the book.
>>7665735
Tao Lin probably murdered her.
Wow, that ugly lady who sang so opera well on that Britbong show sure has changed her style
>>7665772
wrong megan boyle
