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Technically yes.

7/10 joke, 9/10 book, forgot I needed to read book 2.

>>9053662
Did you just not give a fuck about the huge cliffhanger?

but to OP, literally yes he is.

>>9053467
It can *only* be produced in such circumstances.

>>9053476

What did you mean by that?

>>9053480
Russia has produced some of the greatest lit not despite but because it's always been a bleak dystopian hellscape

>>9053424
Elder Scrolls fanfic, ten goddamn years ago. Also the stuff I wrote tonight. (More ES fanfic.)

>>9053424
my earliest diary desu

>so and so was smiling at me and being really nice at school
>I have a really big crush on her
>what can I possibly do about it
>why is shit so fucking confusing?!?!
>I just want a girlfriend

>>9053450
Sounds like the diaries of 99% of the people here (myself included, except I got the girl and found out we had nothing in common)

I wrote a book and sent like 40 queries out, and they were all rejected.

>>9053384
my mom read my diary desu and kicked me out of the house

>>9053384
For undergrad I applied to one school and got in. For grad school, I applied to two schools. Wesleyan did not accept me "due to a high volume of exceptional applicants this year" and I ended up going to a school ranked lower but with more famous people in the department than Wesleyan.

>>9053330
I see some Robert Coover behind him

>>9053374
ouch the rarity!

>>9053330

Why else? We're starved for living Greats in literature.

But as a disclaimer I can't speak on his work personally. At least not yet.

did you just write some shit, put it up, and do zero marketing or anything to get the word out?

>>9053317
yep. how much money should I put into marketing to launch a book? I could charge it to a credit card, perhaps.

>>9053332
you shouldn't put any money into it. Do creative shit, get the word out.

whats the book about?

>>9053282

Those are the worst fucking IKEA instructions to put up a table I've ever seen

>>9053282
I love a good system. Thanks for the pic op. Eventually they'll find me drawing graphs on all the walls of my bedroom.

>tfw to intelligent to even try to understand that chart

>>9053265
Tolstoy never went thru real pain, he was rich as fuck

>>9053585
Not much of an argument about his actual writing, though, is it?

>>9053265
To each his own mi hermano!

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I dunno, but can we have a thread discussing 1984?

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>>9053237
>caring about covers

No

>>9054089
I like the book, I just wanted a copy with that particular cover.

>>9053126
it's great fuck you

>>9053146
Why don't /lit/ards have opinions?
>this book good
>this book bad
So fucking shallow

>>9053126
>it's great fuck you

>>9053108
notes from the underground

literally everything by ws burroughs and jg ballard

>>9053108

why dont you just book a trip to russia

>>9053087
because he's a pleb and wishes he was Donald Barthelme

>>9053090
this is the most wrong thing I have read on lit pertaining to literature in at least a week. >>9053087
Probably because you don't understand what's going on in the middle and need the fireworks of plot to impress you.

>>9053105
Pafko at the wall is the greatest thing he's ever written.

There was plenty of "plot" throughout Mao II but the prologue and epilogue--which had more or less zero plot--was still the best

White noise, was actually pretty solid all the way through.

>>9053072

i think hes dead

Shit. He knows it himself.

>>9053072
Nobel worht etoyrt

Bloom's is a highly creative person. It's endearing af. although he is, like Stephen, a man of ideas, since he writes ads

>>9053002
But molly considers cucking bloom again with Stephen during her monologue.

>>9053002
It's implied that Stephen will create something explosive in later life. But for now he's a pretentious little prick with nothing to write about.

Basically, Stephen and Bloom are both Joyce, at ages 25 and 38.

Yeah, I do it all the time. I submitted one this Monday that was written in like 6 hours but I still managed to get 74/75 points. I'm just a college freshman, though.

>>9052881
Stopped in the second semester of my undergrad. I forced myself to stay on campus after class (I live 90 minutes away by public transit) until I'd finished whatever I'd assigned myself for that evening. I was better for it and so was my work.
Mainly I gave up on the fiction that I could get any work done at home; that's where I shitpost and play vidya

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>tfw regularly had to do 200 word essays (sometimes even higher word counts) in uni but always started working on them weeks earlier and spent time to thoroughly edit