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>post thread on 4chin
>name it "pitch me your idea for a hit book, /boo/"
>plot twist, another dimension
>turtles all the way down

>>10029563
>sex dolls become more popular
>men lose interest in women
>men learn to suck their own dicks
>women population decline
>men realize they are better off without them
>start selectively breeding only men
>fast forward hundred years or so
>only men in the world
>few women live in hiding and steal men to help keep their sex alive
>women hunted by male death squads to get back the men they steal
>main character works as a guy who reintegrates stolen men or men bread in captivity to the normal world
>other main character is a guy bread in the women camps
>hilarity ensues when the two main characters get together for reintegration

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>>10029596

No ones there :(

adding /lit/ might be a little much

>>10029489

My first guess is Joyce, likely Ulysses. What do I win?

What does it mean? Fuck all. Especially if no one can read it.

>>10029519
how about making some claims on the negative side instead of the affirmative?

>>10029467
>Does linguistic competence affect language performance?

what did op mean by that

Define "linguistic competence"
Define "language performance"
Define "affect"

General familiarity and academic tradition during its period of publication?

>>10029406

Being such a pleb and not realizing that Deus, Theos, Jupiter and Zeus are the same word. Daddy.

>>10029406
The Roman names are better anyways

Pretty beautiful. Telling that the oldest text known to man is about the fear of death.

It's OG as fuck, OP. Good baseline materials for exploration of myth (in subsequent texts). Interesting as an anthropological document. Good shit.

Really beautiful and a great way to get into epics. It also blew my mind how much this book had in common with the Old Testament.

Underrated and not read by as many people as it should be.

What do you mean by "purests souls," OP? Like Mr. Rogers or some shit? If so, then any book about the loss of a child should hit the spot. How about the opening of Paradise Lost?

>>10029354
My dead sister's diary desu

>>10029354
Twin pinks sucks

>>10029332
No, I usually, find, comma's are actu,ally pretty easy, to. use,

how;eve,r semicolon;s can be a bit, more, problem'atic

You're not retarded. You just don't understand how to use it properly. You use it correctly in your first sentence, though. So you have that going for you.

>>10029332
bugs,, easy on the commas

>>10029273
Ayyy, what the fuck is up, JR? What's going on, my dude? You earn that cash? You make that seamless transition? You still get who is who and is talking? Lol, JR, amiright? Good shit, anon. Real smart lit., ya know? haha, such a good book, bro. Gaddis is such a G.

>>10029280
This guy gets it lmao

Who walked up the wall in the rundown apartment. Anyone notice how gaddis writes really vague shit when it's not dialogue.

If you can even get to bukowsku-tier cringe then you can ask this question you arrogant fuckwit.

Don't exaggerate with overwrought metaphors. Write honestly and simply. Listen to Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked at Me for an example of painful directness.

>>10029238
Dont?

>>10029216
>judging books by their cover
Fucken patriarchy

>>10029216
> buy paperback
> glue pieces of particle board to the covers
> hardback

there. was that so hard?

>>10029743
I'm not judging the book by it's cover. I want the book, I don't like the cover.

I'm also wondering if there is a publisher that published all the books in the series in a similar style so if I want to continue on I can.

>>10029212
Reads like something a liberal would write

>>10029212
Not even meming but you've stolen a shitload of imagery and direct phrases from a prose poetry thing I posted as part of a novel I'm working on in a crit thread a while back. Last time I contribute sincerely to this hell-hole.

Thanks for severing another addictive tie to this place you fucking pathetic weasel.

>>10029212
looks like someone just discovered ginsberg
don't worry op, i wrote like this when i was 14 too

>>10029194

Is this a ruse? I can't even tell anymore..

>>10029215
Same, but I'll go for an answer to >>10029194.
The short answers are both yes and no. Yes, you can use vocabulary training programs such as Memrise to build vocabulary, but no, you won't be able to apply new vocabulary unless you're actively employing it by writing and reading diverse texts. There are no shortcuts unless you're precocious, which you're not, so buckle down and keep reading and writing.

And stop watching anime, OP. It's fucking awful and will not contribute toward your goals.

>>10029223
I can't finish reading at least 99% of books. I already met all my goals really and wrote over 30 books and write at minimum 2,000 words a day and sometimes up to 10,000 words in a day, But my vocabulary is pretty basic. No one has complained though but I hate not being aware of a certain word.

Don't know how I can finish reading a book when the only reason I'm reading it is for the vocabulary and not the story/anything else.

Anime is pretty fun to watch, understanding why people like anime will help you write better books anon. I already know how cliche and flawed the stories can be yet I still watch them.

Of course she did, haven't you read the rest of the book?

Just a hint, OP. Perhaps the graphic presentation of the rape has less to do with fetishization but rather more to do with the themes in the The Fountainhead being localized to a power struggle between those two characters.

>>10029188
Yeah but did she have a rape fetish?

Most likely, yes, OP. This isn't a board known for celebrating popular literature, nor is it particularly interested in genre, at least in the manner that Brown and his ilk explore it. You're better off sharing your thoughts on /x/, of all places, considering the goofy machinations Brown employs to come up with sub-par commentary on contemporary institutions. It's tedious reading, and few (if any) people here will care if you make another thread once you finish it.

already pre ordered it

I don't have anything against pop lit.
I do however have something against one trick ponies.
ie Writers who had one massive hit and then just figured "Fuck it, I will just write that book 10 more times because people are stupid and will keep buying."
John Grisham and Nicholas Sparks also apply to this.
But if you enjoy it, go for it OP.