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Hey there friends.
I'm doing some xmas shopping for a dear friend and I want to buy her a book.
She's interested in being a lawyer and likes to read about fucked up criminals. She's currently reading Charles Mansons bio.
Is there anything you can suggest?
I thank you in advance.
>She's interested in being a lawyer and likes to read about fucked up criminals.
You're dear friends with every single white woman ever?
>>7415804
Every last one.
If she's enjoying Manson, Helter Skelter would be a nice follow-up.
So most every famous writer from Hemingway to DFW got their start writing/being correspondents for literary journals or major publications.
How does one start down that path? Just write and submit your works to a bunch of different publications and hope it gets picked up? Is it even possible in our time?
The modern equivalent is being a hipster whore, tweeting and sucking cock until someone lets you write awful blogposts about blockbuster movies.
Skip the corresponding, get right to the illicit gay sex, alcoholism, and blowing your brains out.
>>7415779
>Just write and submit your works to a bunch of different publications and hope it gets picked up? Is it even possible in our time?
wtf do you mean is it even possible
of course it is
just send out your work you autist.
>>7415787
I'm not questioning the actual process of sending your work out there.
I'm just saying how would someone these days get a written work published in something like The Atlantic. I know that specific case and others take online submissions, but thousands of people must submit shit per day and those that are actually even read and reviewed probably wouldn't get published.
can you read while you're baked?
like, can you bake while you're writed? write? right?
>>7415734
yeah, sci-fi or whatever; any kind of light reading is chill
Personally I can't I get too lost in it and end up not realizing what I just read.
Thought you would like to know what the best books of the year are
>>7415691
Call me uncultured, but this year has been, to me, pretty stale in really all forms of media: no good albums--at least, none as good as last year's-- no good movies, and, worst of all, no good books: it's really kind of disappointing.
>>7415691
>goodreads
what did you expect
>>7415714
To Pimp A Butterfly and Divers are top tier as far as pop albums go. I haven't listened to much art music lately because college/literature/work.
What's his best work? I just finished reading "The Colour out of Space".
>>7415682
My favorite was the one with the computer brain. Don't remember the name.
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>>7415744
Me on the left
Post over rated af acclaimed historical texts
Pic oh so related, the worst fan fic I read so far.
>>7415586
Excellent bait, friend.
>>7415586
If Vergil is fan fic, then so is literally the entirety of the western canon.
Bait 3/10
>>7415586
This overrated garbage. Just a bunch of pretentious nonsense that nobody would care about if it wasn't for the fancy Old English writing
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∫ 1/cabin d(cabin) = log cabin + c = houseboat
If you don't immediately get this joke then you should stop reading Pynchon, because he is too hard for you and you're just reading him to acquire cultural capital.
It's not that complex of a joke
Anyway math humor is for autists
>>7415570
>It's not that complex of a joke
Which is why you should immediately get it, like I stated. Did you read the OP? Clearly not, or at least you didn't understand it. Please read it again and then immediately delete your post, thank you
anyone who has passed high school should
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Thank you /lit/ for tricking me into buying this fucking shit.
-Screen almost brown and dark as shit if i dont use the light
-4 huge light leaks in the bottom because of a terrible design
Why the fuck do you guys use and like this shit.
Because I'm paid to post nice things about them
>>7415535
should've done your research and gotten a nook or kobo
try to get a refund
>>7415552
So am i, bu i only endorse good products, this is legitimaly shit
Has anyone read Church Not Made With Hands by DFW? It's from BIWHM, and it's perhaps the most compelling story in the collection, imo, which can be found via torrent if you're so inclined to join this dicussion and haven't read it (it's very short).
It seems to be about redemption and faith wrapped up in a dense, poetic language and there's a lot of elements of linguistic deconstruction taking place, I'm wondering what critical lens would be best to view this with- something along the lines of Derrida or Heideggar?
just read it senpai
>still have trouble reading the interviews themselves
what's the point
Who is objectively the best fiction writer of all time, /lit/? And why is it this man?
>>7415447
I too, like dicks.
literally the only sci-fi writer worth reading, that's including Le Guin who was actually his 'dead' twin and also a parallel manifestation of the same consciousness.
>>7415510
That's not true though. Try reading before you post on /lit/, there's a good boy.
Why is this writing style allowed? It makes me want to fucking punch someone, I wish the narrator would shut the fucking hell up and let the characters tell the storyFUCK
Fuck off with your genre-trash and reading for plot.
>>7415192
>>7415195
>"I'm not like those plebieans because I only read classics from the canon! fuggin sheeple amirite?
>>7415201
What did the fag who deleted his post say?
This is the worst shit I have ever read.
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This is the worst shit I have ever read.
Much like Hemingway and Alan Moore, Whitman himself is great but everyone who came after him and tried to imitate him is fucking awful.
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This is the worst shit I have ever read
Are pen pals still a thing?
I'd love to have one, I think it'd be fun.
Any of you guys have one now, or did in the past?
>>7415114
I fell in love with mine and decided never to do it again.
If you do, do it with men.
>>7415154
How very romcom
>inb4 Vonnegut haters
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What did you like about it? I read it recently and thought it was kind of dry and disjointed.
Catcher in the Rye desu senpai faggot kek
Do you feel that you are a more mindful reader now than a couple years back? Especially those of you who are already a few years into adulthood.
I do wonder how much of it would be, well, bias.
I definitely have learned how to read better. in my late teens and early 20s I tended to consume everything within a novel without discrimination, didn't have a filter for what was important vs what was not important to understanding the text.
>>7415078
that pic
>>7415078
Who be that erection confection yonder?
