>opening paragraph reminisces on something his/her father did/said
>>8009997
>B-but people trust fatherly advice.
Patriarchial scum, gtfo out of my mainstream page-turners.
Doesn't The Great Gatsby do this?
>opening paragraph reminisces on something her/his mother did/said
>opening paragraph sets the scene
> opening paragraph is vague nonsense that only makes sense once you've read most of the book
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>Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday
>>8009997
>book has an opening paragraph
>>8009997
>paragraph
>>8010043
Like dying.
>>8010078
>text
>books
>existing
>*
>>8009997
This only happens in mediocre man lit e.g. Hemingway, Faulkner, Mailer, McCarthy.
Women instinctively understand the artificiality of the familial unit since they're the ones forced by society to maintain the façade
>
>>8011254
You mean women are highly susceptible to being brainwashed because they think emotionally and not logically?
>>8011267
What an emotional and illogical response to my post. Are you by any chance a woman?
>opening paragraph is intentionally incoherent and nonsensical in a contrived attempt to avoid falling victim to any known trope
>opening paragraph talks directly to the reader and calls them out on their sexual habits
>>8011334
That likes something specific, what book?
>>8011342
>he hasn't read the most brilliant work of the millennium
>>8011344
I don't read a lot of booksam I making it worse
>>8011355
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6VLTTTj5XI
>>8011254
>Mccarthy
>mediocre
WHOAH that edge
>>8011365
true
he's low-tier
>>8011367
according to some faggot on lit? or every single other american author or scholar of american literature
>>8011367
>Women instinctively understand the artificiality of the familial unit
oh wait, I'm talking to a postmodernist who doesn't understand 8th grade biology.
nevermind lmao
>>8011362
what
>>8011374
>he fell for the mccarthy meme
m-muh argumentum ad populum
hey at least he's better than pynchon
>>8011374
mccarthy is both popular and alive, of course /lit/ is going to have problems with himI do think his brilliance is a tad overstated though. I find him very hit-or-miss
>>8010064
what is this from?
its on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember
>>8011392
nevermind I googled it, that shitty book the stranger. man that book sucked. same with the plague, fucking hated the plague. myth of sissypuss was aight.
>>8010038
Yes.
>>8011254
>it's a "society forces women to _____" post
>>8011365
Welcome to /lit/
>>8011254
>Let us divide literature by gender,class,race!
There is not such thing as "man lit"
There is only literature
