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>author uses "capital" unironically as a boogeyman
>authors
>americans try to use their distorted use of political terminology as if it applies to the rest of the world or even their own country accurately
>>8096941
more doggo pls
What are the essential meme books of lit?
I know of Finnegans Wake and Ulyssus, what else?
>>8096871
>Ulyssus
Infunoot J'est and Groovity's Ranbeau.
2666.
IJ.
GR.
FW.
The SD.
The R.
The T.
The Recocknishuns and The T'uu'u'u'u'unnnnell.
What do you do if your antagonist is turning out to be more interesting than your protagonist? Besides killing yourself.
Have you ever switched the backstories of your antagonist and protagonist?
What's the fucking problem with an antagonist being more interesting than the protagonist?
Just fucking keep going.
>antagonist
You sure you're writing literature there, sport?
>protagonist
>antagonist
>go to Amazon
>check out ebooks
>click whatever genre you want
>glance at the best-sellers
>come back with all the shit you can find
Trust me, it won't take long. It seems every top author nowadays is shit. Every single one of them.
>>8096588
>horror
>2nd book
>main characters are called Snowdenaelikk, Veiko, Dekklis
Literally face-rolled the keyboard for that, but it's the number 1 best seller in low fantasy?
>>8096588
>Literature & Fiction
>3rd book
>almost all of the blurb is made up of reviews
>look-inside gives: chapters starting on indent, written in a weird 1st/2nd person mix, and sentences like "the first time you hit me it was a shock, but not a surprise."
The author is more concerned with a handful of nobodies giving praise than her own book's contents (one even said "[author] has wrote a ...", so how the fuck are they supposed to be taken seriously?). Number 1 in Crime and Psychological, but number 3 out of ALL ebooks. All of them.
kindle ebooks bestseller, first result I found
>Killian Saint is wild and untamed, gruff and solitary, an arrogant loner from a family that people in West Bend say is no good.
>I should know better. A man like Killian should have no part of my life, not with a kid to raise and a bakery to run.
>Not even if the way his hands feel, rough against my skin, sets every part of my body on fire. Not even if the dirty things he whispers into my ear leave me so on edge I can’t think about anything but his lips on mine.
>Everything about Killian is wrong. The problem is, nothing has ever felt so right.
>Killian
>In life, I make my own rules. Rule #1? No wife and definitely no kids.
>A woman like Lily Grant? Hell, no. She talks too much and has too many damn opinions. And that kid of hers might be more of a smart-mouth than she is.
>I should walk away. But once I taste her sweet lips, I want to possess every inch of her.
W h a t t h e f u c k
I'm 33 years old.
I was in a gifted program in school. In AP Literature, I laughed because I thought our treatment of novels was like a 3/10 at best.
Now I'm in the real world and I realize that everyone else doesn't even think about novels.
So it's up to me to understand everything to its fullest? While I have a job?
What happened?
>>8096413
t. faggot
>>8096413
What the fuck do you want us to say? Or more accurately, what do you want to hear? That you're above everyone else because of your dedication to literature, or that you completely waste your time in doing things that are irrelevant to virtually everyone else in the entire world?
If you want to know what happened, it's that you wasted your life doing something that you never really cared about, while you left what you cared about to become overgrown and forgotten, eschewed in favor of cultivating what you were told was important in life.
>>8096420
I don't know.
>That you're above everyone else
Uh no
Any late night lurkers?
Wondering if you could critique this flash story. I am willing to take some insults, but maybe you could offer some general critique as well.
Thanks for your time.
I've finished my two eggs. Scrambled. With pepper. Two and a
half shakes of pepper. I
left one bite full on the plate. Have to leave the one bite full on the plate.
I have to turn off the light above my stove. Off. On again to make sure it's working. And off. Good. Everything is good.
I have to make sure the outside is still there. I don't have to. I want to. It's just a joke really. I do it every morning. But still. It's just a joke.
I have to put my shoes on before I open the door to check if the outside is still there. It doesn't matter that I'm not stepping outside. I have to wear the shoes before I can check. I don't have to. I want to. It's just a joke. Really, it is.
I tie the laces tight. Left shoe first. Always the left shoe first. And then the right. I cannot do the right one first, it wouldn't be right. Left. Then right. It's the right way.
Shoes on. I can go check. I unlock the door. I lock the door. I have to make sure the lock is working. I unlock the door. I lock the door. I unlock the door. I lock the door. I unlock the door.
No. No, no, no, no. Did I check it twice? Unlock, then lock, then unlock, then lock, then unlock? Or did I only do unlock, lock, then unlock? This isn't good. If I check it again, will it be right, or will I have done it too many times? I have to do it the right amount of times. I can't do it less. I can't do it more. No, no, no, no. Why is this happening? It's just a joke, really. I don't have to....
Twice or three times? This is not good. How many times? Do I check it again? I could just walk away from it. But I have to check to see if the outside is still there. I don't have to. I want to. It's just a joke, really. I have to check, I have to check, I have to decide on the lock.
One more time. I'm sure of it. That will be two. It has to be two. It doesn't have to be. Lock. Was that two, or three? I have to check if the outside is still there. Unlock.
I open the door.
The outside is not there.
That's not the outside. That's not the normal outside. It's yellow. It's bright yellow space. And dogs. Dogs are flying. I think they are dogs. They are animals. And they have children in their teeth? Or dolls? It doesn't matter. I checked to see if the outside was there. I did do that. I did check. I didn't have to. It's just a joke, really. I have more pressing concerns.
Did I check the lock twice or three times? I can undo it if I did it three times instead of two. Before I close it. I don't have to. I want to. It's a joke, really.
Lock. Unlock. That's minus one. Is it at two now, or did I make it one? Lock. Unlock.
The outside that is not there is being loud. I have to concentrate.
Lock. Unlock.
Wtf. Bit different but interested in where this ocd madman is going. Please continue for further appraisal
>>8096326
Very good depiction of OCD.
good job on not breaking the present-tense narrative.
Flying dogs aren't terribly creative, but I don't think that's the point.
Good job, I like it
I wonder if that was the first draft of his quote.
Is it worth reading?
I've just started reading it, it's a little slow at the moment but I'm enjoying it so far.
>>8096313
Yes. It's neat pairing it with a dfw. Seeing how dfw was inspired by him is cool
>>8096313
I liked it.
A bit slow, though.
The ending is a pretty good payoff IMHO
>go to goodreads
>see Frankenstein has gotten many 1 star reviews because people thought it was boring
pic related will make any /lit/erary scholar crack
>>8096177
That's the one I saw that inspired me to write this thread. I'm convinced that person is taking the piss
oy vey
What is the best episode of Dave's World and why is it S1E09 A Pynch Too Far?
I prefer S2E01 Late Bloomer
S3E04: Tao Lin Off
S05E13 Hangin' Out
Series finale
![tumblr_ma9pe9QUUf1ru44ono1_500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UBKiOpd.jpg "tumblr ma9pe9QUUf1ru44ono1 500[1]")
>first-person, present tense
If the story isn't written with a third-person omniscient narrator in the past tense, it's tryhard "experimental" bullshit and fails as literature because it's fundamentally inauthentic.
EVERYONE SHOULD WRITE LIKE ME REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SHUT THE FUCK UP MOM I'M TALKING ABOUT LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>8096044
Your pic very much related, share this with your friends at the next Magic: The Gathering tournament. Literature is just pretentious, Warhammer40k novels represent the pinnacle of mankind's cultural output.
>>8096047
That post confirmed the literary inadequacy of the the first-person, present tense.
What do you do when you finish a book, /lit/?
Do you write down a review? Or maybe write a summary and analysis of characters, thenes, motifs, etc? Do you try to have a discussion (in person) with others who've read the book? Or do you simply close it and never think of it again?
Personally I like to create my own "SparkNotes" for future/more in depth readings. Curious to see what others do when they finish a book.
>>8095849
I add it to my good reads with a one or two line review and a ranking, than I thank it for its services and place it away or donate it depending
>>8095849
I usually make a thread on /lit/ saying "just finished this, what did you guys think of it" and get like four replies if I'm lucky
I rant at my kid brother about it for 20 minutes because I live at home and I have no one to talk to
I also make note of it in my journal and I make a small reflection
Hello I am holding coalman I have angst and I am going to tell you about my angst for many pages thanks for listening also nothing will happen at the end
I wanted holder cobblestone to die at the end
>when he rapes his sister Pope
>>8095836
Oh yea I like grabbing little kids. K thx buy!
how do i learn to write and such
probably the best thread in the history of /lit/ to be perfectly honest
>>8095665
You must seek a Guru of writing, climb to the highest mountain near your home, let the sparrows lead you to your destined poetmaster from there
>>8095671
wouldnt be hard
What are the best novels that deal with memory and recollections as a major theme?
>>8095626
In Search of Lost Time
>>8095626
In Search of Lost Time is pretty much the best answer.
What did /lit/ last read, what are you currently reading, and what do you plan to read next?
Rules: to post you must recommend books to another anon. I get the advantage of being OP, fags.
Last read: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe
Current: Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Next: The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Last: tcol49 ( second read)
Current: Infinite jest ( around p700)
Next: I will read any recommendation in a dubs post
>>8095607
Read the life and loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger by cecil brown
It is legitimately funny but there are too many sex ( the thought of interracial sex disgusts me so this book was a challenging read)
L: Second Skin
C:The Recognitions
N: Phenomenology of Spirit
>>8095722
Steal a copy of Women and Men.
