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FUCK YOU LEATHERMAN

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>>9252848
What would the great, polemical DFW think of John Green? Is he, as the great, polemical DFW put it, "New Sincerity"?

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>>9252920
>>9252852
Have I just been memed by lit

>>9252752
That's bullshit.
Think about it. Do you want your first book to be Eragon?

>>9252752
publishing is always going to be about contacts. yeah, a high schooler can publish but i'd say majority of them would come from literary families.

"most successful" writers is too vague to be worth anything. for ever "successful" writer publishing young, there was an equally promising high schooler who dropped off for whatever reason. there are also "a lot" of successful writers who published late in life as well.

>>9252772
This.
>thanks God my parents are not billionaires
>thanks God I haven't published the shit I've written when I was in 10th grade

Be glad.

>>9252717
Fuck.

>>9252724
Never mind. OP made this up.

what is e-ink

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>Bellus homo et magnus vis idem, Cotta, videri
>sed qui bellus homo est, Cotta, pusillus homo est.

>>9252716

It's Ovid my man

whoreass
wasn't faggy like poets usually are

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> Disney's remake for beauty and the beast in cinemas
> see so many people saying how excited they are for it because "it's a story as old as time"

The original story was published in 1740, so existence has only been around for the past 277 years for these people. This shit really triggers my autismo.

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> go to bookstore
> ask the qt girl at the counter where the classics are
> "sorry, any old books we have go straight to the library or ebay. People pay dumb money for old books"
> I ask if she meant classics like War and Peace and Dracula or if she meant book editions that were showing signs of age
> "well if you bought old books who would buy any of the new ones? what would be the point of putting out the new ones?"
> see the shelves
> realise it's nothing but boxsets for the Hunger Games movies, Star Wars novelisations, colouring books for "mindfulness" and how to draw manga guides
> gain an erection
> i ask "a-are you f-free tonight?"
> "huh? what was that?"
> she looks down at my erection, isn't impressed by the size (it begins to pop out from under my shorts)
> she screams and smacks the tip of it as if to scold a bad doggy
> makes me cum, it dribbles down my leg
> ask her if she'll marry me
> she throws up and farts
> Roundabout by Yes plays on the in-store speakers
> a Japanese class of school girls comes in with their phones ready to take pictures, i'm not prepared
> I'm so anxious and when that happens I need to poop but there's very little places to go so I try running around the shelves
> begin to fart out racial slurs
> can't stop
> she screams "get out, i can still see you!" so i try ducking but it doesn't work
> try finding my wallet in my waist coat pocket but the pockets are so deep
> my chin gets itchy havent shaved since August
> throw money at the cashier, a quarter hits her eye
> I begin crying
> kneel down and pray hoping for forgiveness
> Mr Takanura screams at me and asks why I didn't turn up for math class

mom's gonna flip

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>>9252886

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Marx: 1337
Rand: 1

LEFTYPOL ON SUICIDE WATCH!!!!!

why didn't she develop her "philosophy" formally.....you know....like marx did?

marx wouldn't gotten anywhere if he wrote bad novels

>>9252612
A thread died for this shitpost
Apologize

>>9252612

goddammit I laughed.
Have your goddamn you.

>>9252619
no u

Harry Potter. The Hunger Games is thinly-veiled politics for lazy teenagers obsessed with Twitter and Instagram.

Albeit neither are particularly good but at least Harry Potter has a nostalgic appeal.

>>9252631
The one thing that doesn't make me want to read the Hunger Games is the retarded names. Katniss? Wtf? But yeah I'm trying to read YA so I can learn how to write it and I figured I should start with the basics

Neither but if I had to choose, I'd say Hunger Games. After all Harry Potter is the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody. Just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>9252552
I dunno man, it's difficult to figure out what the best book is.

>>9252552
As in, only weirdo faggots like it? Probably Finnegans Wake.

Ananas belongs to piitsa

>underage brainlet fresh off Ieddit criticizes one of the greatest works of modernism and tries to fit in
Ukk urff.

>>9252500

>underage brainlet fresh off Ieddit criticizes one of the greatest works of modernism and tries to fit in

Finnegans Wake is shit to everyone who isn't a ridiculously erudite scholar on Irish folklore m8.

Go read The Emperor's New Clothes.

I love Finnegans Wake.

>taking notes while reading

>Find a good book
>Buy it
>Take notes in the margins when you have a thought about what you're reading. Underline and or mark bits you like.

Those are the things I tend to follow.
I've been much into journaling about what I've read, so I can't give much advice on that aspect of it.
If you have memory problems then anything by Pynchon is a bad start. He's an amazing author, but you will hate him for how he writes. I commend you for starting with him. Good luck

>>9252439
>be reading
>"wow this sentence is good, i'd like to remember it better, if only I had a copy of it in writing i can refer to"
>writes sentence verbatim

>>9252331
>that belt buckle
>those catholic-colored sperrys
>no bulge

Is ANY male summer's fashion attractive?
Shorts are so horrible unsightly. Sandals? Don't get me started. T-shirts? Sweaty T-shirts? Ew.

Not just asking rhetorically. Like is there a single attractive summer's outfit?

>>9252647
>Is ANY male summer's fashion attractive?

On Chad, yeah

>>9252329
Define postmodern
I feel like brainlets just label anything recent and difficult that

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I usually avoid it.

Ain't got no time for no Babylon, bumbaclot head-fuckery

>>9252329
"Hurrdurr post modern bad!"

>w*men writers

nope

Who?

I love lem
lwow is rightful Polish clay