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Alright, which one of you disgusting people bought the entire Tundra series for Christmas?
I know you're here
>>7503221
There is a fucking series ?
I never heard of this
What the fuck
>>7503221
He was in the lit Christmas thread friendo
Call me Big Papa
Thomas Freekin' Pynchon
Tomasz Jebany Pynczon
>>7503123
Tim-tom "fuckmaster" pincone
>>7503128
Tommy "The Smug" Painkhon
Reminder that you should read Gaddis this Christmas break. The Recognitions is a perfect place to start, so you can work up to reading the greatest American novel, J R
Bit of a shit meme trilogy desu
>>7503026
pleb
What does /lit/ think of Gore Vidal? Where do I start with his work?
I recommend starting with the book that presents an extremely problematic depiction of trannies
period piece tier I imagine. I've never read him.
He's a writer of genre fiction. Not very good at all, especially in comparison to his contemporaries.
I got my dad a copy of his favorite book (pic related) for Christmas, and I wanted to make the gift a little more personal. Any tips on writing inscriptions?
Make sure to write inside the book and not on the cover or on things that are not the book
why doesn't your dad have a copy of his favourite book
>>7500429
good idea. I didn't even think of that
How do I stop being pretentious? Apparently it comes off as such in my writing and my personality and I don't know why.
I'm not even that well read
>>7499765
Talk less, be silent, appear mysterious. Speak only if you are of superior knowledge in a given field. Deplete your dopamine so you look like an over-worked sage (so either sex, drugs or sth). Try not to spill spaghetti.
>>7499765
be cruel as fuck. talk down to them so hard that they don't know what hit them. approach their sensibilities and ruin them. people who say you're pretentious probably just don't fucking get it. fuck them. who do you write for anyway? you write for those losers who think that you have some sort of animosity towards those who might not agree, understand, or identify with you? fuck em. write in whatever way that's comfortable for you. polishing is fine, honing your skill is fine, but changing your entire style because some few don't like a few sneers? you have to draw the line of how far you're willing to go to change yourself for others. you might lose whatever voice you had in the process.
Self-deprecating humour
Are any of the Star Wars books good? What's canon? Are they all books for babies or are any actually well-written? The only genre books I've read are ASoIaF (fun reading, imo) and I know nothing about the SW universe or whatever, so any opinions are appreciated.
>>7502000
He's a big guy.
they're written by C-grade sci-fi authors who's only intent is money.
avoid at all costs.
also they've all been retconned.
Nothing is canon and George Lucas is a fucking child in the flesh of a hairy testicle
Rate my haiku, /lit/.
4/7
annon it is great
the only thing it needs now
is a marry sue
>>7501746
quality post
Reading Kafka gives me nightmares.
normal ones or Kafkaesque ones?
>>7500155
his actual stories
>>7500155
What are the 'normal' Kafka stories?
Is there a single good writer that wasn't at least moderately attractive in their youth?
me
>>7490160
who is that though?
>>7490212
>not knowing Balzac
What are your hopes for the final installment?
authors who actually try to contribute
themes and plots
an anthology of poems and stories on a theme
mostly people trying
If I see /lit/ put out one more of these meme books I'm going to puke. You're all a bunch of cowards, writing shit and memes when you fancy yourselves writers
>>7504608
Hypersphere did all of these things though ..
JUST
I never understood this meme.
>>7504382
J JJ JJ JJJUST THOO IT.
Really would like to know what the origin of the JUST meme is.
Sister bought me this book for Christmas, is it any good?
>>7504128
A preachy trite list of outmoded nonsense.
bin it
>>7504128
It's an amazing introduction to Stoicism and probably the one book that has really influenced my worldview and thinking.
The message is: don't be a worrying bitch nigga and let things come and go.
>>7504146
/thread
What are the best English novels since 1970?
Mao II
That picture is fucking Hilarious.
English language?
Please stop memeing DFW. He makes American lit look like shit. He's for people who read Rolling Stone and creative non-fiction.
1. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
2. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
3. A.S. Byatt - Possession
4. Barbara Pym - Quartet in Autumn
5. Nadine Gordimer - Burger's Daughter
6. Joseph McElroy - Women and Men
7. Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
8. Edward Jones - The Known World
9. Ian McEwan - Atonement
10. Don DeLillo - Underworld
Young adult garbage, or actually decent literature?
Read the last book in the series
About Muslims killing everyone
>>7503696
Christian garbage, a uniquely foul kind of YA garbage.
>>7503793
