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Aside from reading, what else do you guys do?

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I really want critiques and I want you all to be honest. Tell me how good it is. Tell me how bad it is. I dont fucking care. Just help me. Leave me comments and shit. Critique my ass as hard as you can

I'm really proud of this. Its a Walking Dead cross over with Inuyasha. I worked hard.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11909828/1/Oats-in-the-Water

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going to read his works

how do you view his works?

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>Reading some genre trash
>"Damn, I could write better than this"
>Sit down and write for 30 minutes
>Read it over
>It's genre trash

Is getting published a matter of just not caring that you're writing genre trash?

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Why is it that people can never come to a clear consensus on this book? People either say that it's the emperor's new clothes or that it's the greatest thing ever made. Even with other meme-books on /lit/ that people might ironically shit on, these books will still have a clear majority consensus outside of /lit/.

However even outside of 4chan, there isn't really a clear majority response to whether or not this book is shit or is good. Does it have a lot to do with people wanting to like this book even if they dont understand shit about it? On the flip side, does it have to do with people not really being able to get into Pynchon's writing?

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Should /lit/ have a book of the week kind of thing so that we can all at least talk about one book instead of constantly comparing the ones we have (pretended to) read?

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Do US libarts colleges give good financial aid?

I just took a sample GRE and it was the easiest test ive ever done in my life and im considering applying to some of the meme places in the northeast, not American so it imagine it would be extremely expensive if I didnt have huge aid

Any particular places that would accept a high scoring poorfag as an international applicant? Would obviously have to not be undergrad exclusive

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how would you describe this series?

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Jungians of lit, I have a question for you. Is there anywhere in the Jungian literature (his contemporaries included) dealing with the subject of pedophilia, more specifically hebephilia? I have read much of Jung, Marie-Louis Von Franz, and Robert Johnson but I haven't seen this subject dealt with in the least. Perhaps I just haven't read the right books.

I have to deal with this sexual orientation and I am looking for a solution through Jungian analysis if there even is such a thing. It is quite painful and shameful to have to avert my eyes every time I'm in a public place and see a quite underage girl pass by. I look into her eyes and see the possibility of completion but then I have to stab myself in the heart and scream "Stop it you fool!" because I am aware of the consequences for both her and myself. I'm 30 years old and have never and would never act on my feelings and I need to deal with these feelings in a constructive manner because it's quite toxic at this point.

>inb4 kill yourself
I prefer life affirmation.

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I used to hate the "The movie wasn't as good as the book." people, until I got into reading... Anyone else experience this? I'm a huge movie fan too, but since I really got into reading about 2 years ago I'm definitely one of those people now.

At first I didn't really agree, because what got me back into reading was actually The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It was a really quick read that introduced me to how captivating the simple words in a novel can be. Anyway I saw the movie and thought it was actually a really good representation of the book. Practically a clone actually. So those people must've just been book snob elitists.

Then I read The Martian, saw the film. Book was much better and had much more comedic value. After I read The Shining, and realized it was much better than the film. So I began to realize there's tons of examples to support that statement I once loathed and hated.

The biggest disappointment was the Hulu original show 11.22.63, based on the Stephen King novel. It was such a letdown. I loved that book and envisioned the perfect movie, with say Jonny Depp. I mean it was a good show but wasn't really like the book. I don't know, I was disappointed. I think it would've been better as a 3-part TV show event. Shows butcher novel plots I feel like. Under the Dome was subpar.

I guess the only exception was The Stand. The TV specials were amazing. Anyway, what's your biggest letdown in the novel-to-movie category?

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so why the fuck did this pussy lie about the downsides of inherently beneficial herbs?

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"Remember that life is made up of loyalty: loyalty to your friends; loyalty to things beautiful and good; loyalty to the country in which you live; loyalty to your King; and above all, for this holds all other loyalties together, loyalty to God."
Queen Mary (of Teck)

Can we have a monarchist book club? We'll vote on which books to read first, but before that we'll nominate, so name whatever monarchist literature (philosophical, poetic, fiction, whatever) you would like to be on the poll, and when I get another thread up in a month or something, I will have all the nominated options on it, and we'll vote (lacking a monarch to decide for us) which work to start with

Here are some of my nominations

De Monarchia, by Dante
Eikon Basilike, by King Charles
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, by Father Seraphim Rose
The Henriad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wI5KCyu44

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where to start with samuel beckett, namely his novels?

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What is the deal with the story in the Bible about Jesus cursing a fig tree so that it may no longer bear fruit? What is the meaning of that story? For what purpose does it serve? And why would Jesus curse the tree? The tree is not a sentient creature and is not responsible for its actions. why Jesus, why?

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How'd I do /lit/?