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Thoughts?
Thoughts
It's a really cool book
Really enjoyed it. The narrator switches were both interesting and effective storytelling tools. It also had a lot of nuanced symbolism and interplay between the characters.
Hey/lit/ lets rate each other's aphorisms.
I'll start.
Maturity is the slow process by which who you want to be and who you ought to be converge to become the same thing.
Maturity isn't a process though. It would have to be maturation.
>>7744118
Ah true. Fair criticism.
What does everyone here think about Steve Alten's work? He is my favorite author. I love his Meg Series and I will reread it all before the next book comes out.
>megalodons being badass giant sharks
Whats not to love?
Also the Loch is pretty cool, One day ill read Vostok, I have it on my kindle I just haven't gotten a chance.
Also
>purchased some stuff from his site recently
>Have a chance to be in his next meg book and if enough sales immortalized forever in his current meg book thats releasing soon
>purchased during a special tiime and will get a signed copy of his book.
Truly I have won this round of life
The quality of photoshopping and inconsistent resolutions of the source images they used for that cover bothers me.
If William H. Gass and Gene Wolfe are the new memes (in place of Pynchon and Joyce respectively, obviously), who is the new DFW?
>>7744054
Yuri A. Kunt
>>7744056
OP I'm pretty sure this anon is calling you a cunt.
Comment?
Zadie Smith
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
Christ, I knew Wallace was a hack but this ridiculous. No discernible talent is right.
Graham Greene said that.
>>7744049
Pretty sure it was Joyce
>>7744045
my dad sent me a link to this article and i had the exact same response: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-pundits-dont-get-about-trump.html
Is Ken follet good?
Are you asking me?
What is the good?
Which lisbon did you want to fuck the most
-lux
>>7743937
How old was the youngest?
Hey /lit/ if you were a woman, what would you be reading?
I just finished Amy Poelher's book "Yes Please". I loved the insights she gave on working with the SNL crew, and her dazzling and courageous bravery described in the face of the hardships of being a female comedian. This woman is funny, sexy, and strong, my new idol in life.
I'm thinking about reading "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" by Mindy Kaling. It look's like a difficult read so I may have to have my girlfriends read it with me, or maybe consult a booktube overview.
>>7743901
I know you're poking fun at the notion that she's been horribly oppressed, but you have to admit that she's one of the tiny sub-handful of legitimately funny female comedians.
>>7743912
You are the cancer that is killing /lit/. We finally get a thread about a decent book and you want to destroy it, shameful.
Im a 26 year-old male starting to write his first book. I was wondering if there is enough male readers out there who would be interested in a story surrounding 2 male college students and roomates (not homosexual) who are trying to get rich quick by breaking into rich peoples houses. Their aim is to get the money to fit in with the cool crowd of 30k millionaire douche bags in their town and the rich kids at their university. Im trying to be respectful to women and don't believe in sexualizing female charactors so if I dont mask a porn as a story like Game of Thrones or 50 shades could I attract a male audience? And even though im a male author that respects women can a story about 2 dudes with not very female characters appeal to a female audience? Id appreciate it if you could give me brutally honest advice as I want to get it right.
Men generally don't want to read porn. Judging from the way you wrote your post, I don't think there's a lot of hope for your novel in general.
you should probably just an hero now op you're hopeless
Write for yourself, not for a specific audience.
Also this, >>7743856
dont hate me /lit/ but im not usually one for the classics. a couple chapters in and i just google the plot and summary notes just so i know the tropes and concepts. every once and a while though there's always a classic that holds up like The Island of Doctor Moreau (imho). so /lit, does lovecraft hold up or should i just google for the notes? which ones to read and which to skip?
pic fuckin related.
Generally it's agreed that the mythos he founded was good but his writing is mediocre at best, generally poor.
>>7743817
>is lovecraft any good
yes
> should i just google for the notes
no
> a couple chapters in and i just google the plot and summary notes just so i know the tropes and concepts
does anyone actually read a book for its own sake anymore?
if you scroll down a bit you'll see another thread on this.
these are the 4 /lit/ takes:
1) lovecraft is garbage
2) lovecraft was original hugely influential. he's good but not literary.
3) he's not good, but he wasn't trying to be good. a man's gotta eat
4) nigger
>tfw you are from european nonrelevant country
>tfw your book will never be /lit/ meme
Today I Wrote Nothing, or Zettels Traum, may make it into memehood some day
>>7743798
>You will never grow up in the 19th century on a poor farm north of London, read English at Cambridge, pen your magnum opus, and die of cancer leaving your penniless widow with 2 young children
Why live?
>tfw Joyce always looks sort of weak and emaciated in his photos
>tfw he was actually a living breathing person who got shitfaced with Hemingway and probably assaulted others regularly
/lit/, thread with our librarys
my library
>>7743771
half these stupid things mean the same thing. Intending to read/ saving for later
will never read/ purely for show/will never read
I read books for their engaging stories... not the message i'm suppose to receive or the sole fact they're "classics"
Somehow, I feel like this makes me a bad human, but i'm not sorry about it.
I'd take The Golden Compass and Harry Potter over Catcher in the Rye, Infinite Jest, and For Whom the Bell Tolls any day of the week. I keep Jane Austen novels on my shelf to seem more astute, however I only made it halfway through Emma and a quarter of the way though Pride and Prejudice.
Any other plebs out there that pick up books for the story and not the "amazing metaphor and cultural awareness" (no matter how pretentious) a book tries to convey?
what if I don't find stories in themselves to be engaging
Catcher in the Rye is a pretty engaging story. Persuasion is probably the best story of Austen, though Emma is pretty good in that front too.
>reading for plot
Who are some good black authors who don't talk about muh racism
>>7743742
He's just telling it like it is. If you think it's whiny, then maybe that's a you problem.
>>7743752
*tips cabbie hat*
>>7743752
Oh hai taniqua redcoats!
> Muh favorite book is pic related.
How badly memed am I?
why don't you make a thread where you don't post like a retard
