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Everybody say it's really good, but the summary makes it look gay as fuck.
Would I like it even if I'm not gay?
Also, on its wiki page:
>It was a bestseller within the gay community.
What would people think if I read this in public spaces? I don't want them to think I'm gay.
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Women writing about civilisation generally doesn't work out well.
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>>7785572
>le women can't write meme xD
I suggest you to read Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar.
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>>7785043
Mary Renault writes a lot of gay shit mang. Generally it's good shit I hear.
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80% of my way through his short stories. Very hit and miss, but when it's good, it's fucking good.
A few favorites : AtMoM, Dexter Ward, The Mound, Better Call Chtulhu,
basically anything long-ish that isn't named The Bore-Fest of Sleep Kadath.
I see where Stephen King got his biggest influence, those guys basically made sure I will never step foot in New England long as I live.
I'm interested in your opinions and experiences with this bad boy.
What are your favorite short stories?
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>>7784947
i like call of cthulhu, dunwich horror and haunter of the dark the most. mountains of madness is alright. havent read charles dexter ward yet.
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>>7784947
my friend made me read this guy a few years ago.
the only things i remember that were even worth reading were
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Out of Time
The Mound was ok
Charles Dexter Ward was ok
I think his best and my personal favorite was The Colour Out of Space
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>>7784947
It's called the "Dream Quest" because it will put you to sleep.
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Post childhood photos of your favourite author
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>>7784342
Hungry Elliot
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>>7784342
not lit
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He's the one on the right
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let's share some good images for book covers
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>>7784200
>Le corner of the room of that resembles a pair of girl's legs and some panties
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The best Lolita cover has a photograph of a little girl on it. Also I would suggest that a good choice for a Lolita cover would be a Balthus painting; one of the portraits of Therese. I am currently writing a work of pedophilic fiction, I think the aesthetic of little girls is very important. OP, your cover is shite.
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>>7784230
yeah the balthus is the way to go.
What books should I read during my cross country travel through the south of the States?
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Just read The Game and The Mystery Method beforehand then you can get essentially any and all girls to accompany you on the trip.
If you're driving you can use NLP to get one girl to drive you while you have sex in the back seat.
If walking you can use NLP to get one girl to carry you and another to blow you or eat your ass dependent on the style of carrying you get the first to use.
That's what I did
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Blood Meridian desu
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Apparently I write like Dan Brown
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So, about a year ago, I decided to step into writing. I loved reading, albeit I'm not very cultured in literature. Especially English, since I've only used it as a second language. Still don't know why I picked English to start writing, but who cares?
Recently, I found this site: iwl.me, which analyzes your text and tells you to whose writing your writing they found similar. I took some excerpts from my book I'm currently still in the process of writing, and got lots of results, but mainly Dan Brown.
Now, from what I can gather, people hate the ever-living fuck out of Dan Brown. Please, elaborate, /lit/, why? I'd love to be a writer and release my own book, and I need your help to see where Dan Brown falls short to avoid these pitfalls. Thanks in advance.
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It's a dud site. Change the words around a little and it'll say Herman Melville. Sites like this provide basic meme software and make their money on ads and pageviews. Literally delete this thread and then yourself.
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>>7784071
It's a good feel.
I'll wear this badge with pride.
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>>7784079
Makes sense. Still doesn't answer my question on literary pitfalls, though. I'll commit honorable sudoku once I've gotten my answer, senpai.
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Any OCDfags here? How does it affect your reading and writing?
I have to reread lines that describe bad things several times, thinking "it will never happen", in fear that these unwanted events will happen to a person close to me. I also look at the page number every time before I turn to the next one.
In writing, I'm over conscious to usage of words, and when narrating in first-person, for example, I'm really annoyed by all the "I"s. In general I find myself caring more about the aesthetic appearance of sentences, rather than the substance and end up feeling like a poor Lovecraft imitator. I'm going into very minor details that sometimes defect the "flow" of the work because I want the reader to get the exact same mental picture I had (I know it's impossible).
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>>7783955
I've got it. Not as bad as it was when I was younger, but some days it still gets me.
I've had the page number experience. Not the aesthetics thing, that was never really mytrigger. Bad things fear not quite, but similar stuff.
Some people have bad experiences, but SSRIs have helped me a lot. SOme people say they feel flattened or dead when on them, for me it's exactly the opposite, I feel like I've finally come to life. Give them a try if you haven't, just to see which group you are.
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Reading Lolita as a 14 year old with untreated P-OCD made me believe I was a pedophile for many years
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>>7784661
>P-OCD
Woah, I learned something today.
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What should I name the dog I'm getting soon /lit/? I need /lit/ approved names. Since it will be a Siberian Husky and I love the Russians I'm thinking something like Mishka.
What do?
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Muad'dib
Or
Chani
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>>7783498
>I love the Russians
cultural appropriation
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When I get a dog I plan on naming him Agamemnon, Lord of Men.
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Bad book thread. I'll start.
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>read it in high school so it sucks
ebin thread. upboated.
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Do you have purpose?
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>>7782191
nope
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>>7782191
maybe.
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i don't. nope.
What's the last book you lent to a friend?
Did they like it?
Have you gotten it back yet?
>Mona Lisa Overdrive
>They never read it.
>6 years later, nope.
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>Crime and Punishment
>He never read it
>Five years later, nope
FUCKING NORMIES REEEEEEEE
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>>7781129
Salt of Earth by Ratzinger knowing he won't read it.
It was only 3 weeks ago so I don't need it yet.
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>>7781129
>friend
:'(
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Does anyone on /lit/ like Gramsci?
I'm embarking on a project to read huge selections of the Prison Notebooks, guided by secondary materials, and I'm wondering if there are any especially magisterial/authoritative readers or critical treatments.
I'm also very interested in other "culture critique" figures. Frankfurt School is up next.
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>>7780731
marxistfag get out!
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>2016
>Liking the guy who unleashed Critical Theory upon Western Civilization
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i like his war of position war of manoeuvre ideas the best and think they are the most relevant to latecapitalism. (b/c it is so hard to take on the economic base these days)
what secondary sources are you going to read OP?
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Tell me about the things you are you writing, /lit/
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>>7779581
I found a solid short story pulp formula that nets first drafts, but like everything else, thats as far as I tend to end up.
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>>7779581
ayy lmao
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>>7779615
short story about a paralyzed man listening to his eulogy waiting to be cast to sea on a funeral pyre
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Does /lit/ have any recommendations for younger readers?
I want to get my little sister a birthday present, and I'm not sure which series' are the best at the moment
The stuff I read when growing up I don't think would be very interesting to her, that was mostly fantasy like Robert Jordan and Stephen King
I know she liked the Percy Jackson books, and that she has read the Maxiumum Ride series, as well as Room.
Anyone have any recommendations? What have your younger siblings been reading lately and what do they like?
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>>7776346
Finnegans Wake.
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>>7776346
His Majesty's Dragon/Temeraire depending on your country by Naomi Kovaks.
UnLunDun by China Mieville.
Depends on the age though, how old is she?
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>>7776358
She's 13
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I'd like to know what the average SAT score of /lit/ is. The scores, of course, will be self-reported and thus unreliable but it's the best we can do.
I got a 2020 on the (now old) SAT, I have yet to take the new one. How did you all do?
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I never took such a test or went to college
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uh I scored 18,50 out of 20 in the french leaving certificate which I guess is the equivalent of the SAT
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I live in the South, so I took the ACT instead of the SAT and got a 30.