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Besides that sort of facetious comment I made at the end of the OP, I also wanted to say that I think it would be fun to try to make writing fun. I can only imagine just waiting to hear what the assignment is, then figure out how I can add my own elements to it, while still going through with the objective of the writing assignment. It would be cool to try to figure out how I can twist and subvert the thing which I'm trying to write, and find the most bizarre meanings behind them when I go to write my paper. It sounds like something which would be pretty fun to put my mind to and really grapple with.

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I'm having battered cod and chips for dinner

>>8512194
lol, nice blog bro.

Start with the Greeks.

>>8512102
The Great Books of the Western World.

>>8512137
Thank you, seems like a great book. What about wisdom outside of the western world though?

>>8512011
Omg capitalism is so evil!!!!

I don't know if this is necessarily a bad thing. Think about comedians like Pete Holmes or Marc Maron. They built their own audiences from podcasts so the people who come out to see them aren't comedy crowds but fans of them. It allows them to experiment because the audience is giving them so much leeway.

It's about the following you're trying develop. If you're just pumping numbers on twitter by posting clickbait and inane shit then you'll create an audience who likes that. If the work is solid and you promote, you can gain fans who are just excited to see where you'll take them.

>>8512011
and what are the other five?

>>8512009
Is he white, male, masculine, and conservative? If so, I'm on board

>>8512009
Is the lead character interesting in their attitude and behavior in their debut? If not, I'll lose interest and return the book.

I lost interest in Anita Blake since I couldn't see her motivation in her debut book. But I got interested in Artemis Fowl for his severe and careful attitude toward his mother.

>>8512043
This, but also tempered with some healthy confiction.

If a hero is like, rocket pointed at an objective it quickly becomes more about the objective he's after than him. Which is ok, if the book is really just about the world he's in.

But if he's conflicted, has doubt about what he's doing, if it's the best thing to do, etc... also have him fuck some things up just to add some gravity to those doubts. He, and the Audience will be like "weeeell... you DID fuck up the last time you tried this, maybe you SHOULD try something else"

2014 /x/ please go

>>8511977
All pill retards should die.

They don't read so why even speculate

>>8511977
>Blue Pill

Either Hillary Clinton's Autobiography or an O'Reilly book

Nope, sorry. No books like that written, ever.

>>8511836
Modernist, postmodernist and surrealist authors and others that don't use conventional plot elements. Plenty to pick from famalam.

early Knut Hamsun

Also, If any of you have done anything similar, any help is appreciated

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>>8511802
Better ask /tg/. /lit/ is made of elitist assholes.

>>8511797
>sync a text story with music

dude that's called a song

haha

haha

haha harambe

>>8511711
National Book Award is one award that I don't think is entirely shit.

>>8511711
None of the fiction titles seem interesting.

Turbo-pleb core.

They'll give to a woman, I guess.

>women on the list
Bullshit like this is why I can't get published

>>8511700
Is that Jacques Lacan's "Ecrits"?

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>>8511708

>>8511708
Haha, I get it!

The Strange Video Game Report (a little blog I worked on a few months back).

https://strangevideogamereport.wordpress.com/

>>8511689

i am spooked by the terrible spooky ghost Randy. He say "BOOO" i go silent.
The spooky ghost speaks:
"5spook7u"
he laugh the very big laugh, the interminable laugh.
i am seated...

The emperor,so a parable runs, has sent a message to you, the humble subject,
the insignificant shadow cowering in the remotest distance before the imperial sun;
the Emperor from his deathbed has sent a message to you alone. He has commanded
the messenger to kneel down by the bed, and has whispered the message to him; so
much store did he lay on it that he ordered the messenger to whisper it back into his
ear again. Then by a nod of the head he has confirmed that it is right. Yes, before the
assembled spectators of his death -- all the obstructing walls have been broken down,
and on the spacious and loftily mounting open staircases stand in a ring the great
princes of the Empire -- before all these he has delivered his message. The messenger
immediately sets out on his journey; a powerful, an indefatigable man; now pushing
with his right arm, now with his left, he cleaves a way for himself through the throng;
if he encounters resistance he points to his breast, where the symbol of the sun glitters;
the way is made easier for him than it would be for any other man. But the multitudes
are so vast; their numbers have no end. If he could reach the open fields how fast he
would fly, and soon doubtless you would hear the welcome hammering of his fists on
your door. But instead how vainly does he wear out his strength; still he is only making
his way through the chambers of the innermost palace; never will he get to the end of
them; and if he succeeded in that nothing would be gained; he must next fight his way
down the stair; and if he succeeded in that nothing would be gained; the courts would
still have to be crossed; and after the courts the second outer palace; and once more
stairs and courts; and once more another palace; and so on for thousands of years; and
if at last he should burst through the outermost gate -- but never, never can that
happen -- the imperial capital would lie before him, the center of the world, crammed
to bursting with its own sediment. Nobody could fight his way through here even with
a message from a dead man. But you sit at your window when evening falls and dream
it to yourself.

>>8511591
it is somehow always women who do this

>>8511591
A strong reason I cannot read Murakami, his insufferable angsty young male twats take away from the reading. Other characters that take away from the novel are Pip from great expectations and almost any protagonist in a BEE novel except for Bateman. As far as top tier literary works that are dragged down by shitty protagonists, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and Flaubert's female protagonists make me absolutely not want to engage with a book further.

>>8511615
Completely untrue

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>>8511591
>hey this book is pretty good
>cant wait till they get out west
>a...talking dog?
>alright... I guess
>fuck I cant read this anymore

>>8511582
If she teaches me to dance.

>>8511582
Awh hell no. The story took a sharp turn for the worse the moment she entered the story. A bloody shame.

>>8511866
>she

>>8511575
There you are. There's one blessed place [that] hasn't shut up, aye?

>attempting to capture a non standard dialect.
>not using ipa.
Fucking capefags.

>>8511575
Sounds like a parody of Lovecraft

Le Carré generally writes damn good novels.

>>8511672
But have YOU read it

>>8511847
no, MOM told me