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Which Stephen King books are worth reading?
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>>7672982
Different Seasons
The Shining
Pet Semetary
IT
The Stand
Misery
Gunslinger 1
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What's with all the King threads being made?
If you're seriously asking for King reccs, just go for any of his most famous novels, like Carrie, The Shining, It, and if you thought it sucked then don't explore any more because it's not getting much better.
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>>7672982
Full Dark, No Stars
Just After Sunset
Everything's Eventual
Basically any of his short story/novella collections and not any of his full length books. He's terrible at writing those. Also don't expect anything more than shallow entertainment, because that's all he does.
Almost finished with my first novel, and it's turned from the initial concept of a serious dark story, into more of a campy, fun and lighthearted story littered with references and occasional dark moments.
I still like it, but I'm worried if I try and publish it I won't be taken seriously as a writer.
Thoughts?
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pseudonym, my familiar
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>>7672972
You won't be taken seriously either way
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Anyone here listen to erotic audiobooks?
I was thinking about trying it for my daily commute, but is erotic fiction just for getting your rocks off or is there some good story that just happens to have sex in it?
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>>7672961
>her purrfect match
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How was he as a writer?
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>>7672930
trully a talentless hack
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He was paid by the word. That never goes well.
ITT: books that make you cry
LOTR, that bittersweet ending.
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>tfw you'll never be Aryangon of nearly pure dunadin blood and live to age 220 with your elven qt3.14
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>>7672928
For a dude who's so associated with the fantasy genre, Tolkien knew how to write some good feels without being needlessly dramatic.
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What can you tell me about speculative realism and its children (OOO, transcendental materialism and nihilism)
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nothing?
Why is American """"""""""""""hard"""""""""""""" sci-fy so unimaginative and entry level?
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>>7672868
because it's not literature
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>>7672868
>why is genre fiction shit?
There, now go ask that question somewhere that cares about such things.
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>>7672868
Hard sci-fi is written by autist science nerds, so they can't really have imaginations or be creative and such.
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I only like to read when it's fiction (nonfiction bores me). Fantasy and Sci-Fi are my go-to genres. So, lately I've been told by the 80-year-old lady that I'm working for that the genres I read are junk and not very good for (brain) stimulation. She wants me to read classics because, in her opinion, they're better than the mindless things I fill my head with.
What's your opinion on this?
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Whats your opinion on it
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Sounds like a patrician called you out for being a pleb. Still, be a pleb if you want. Just don't muck up the board with Sanderson/Pratchett/Martin threads. Read whatever you want m8
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>>7672860
That I enjoy the books I read and I still learn lots of new things from them
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Why is it that fans of fantasy fiction have so much trouble making the jump to literary fiction, or even any genre fiction other than fantasy?
When I was young, I read nothing but Stephen King books. That didn't stop me from trying new things, and I have moved on to literary fiction in the past few years, while still being fond of the time spent reading King. I never felt apprehensive about trying new things. I enjoyed reading King, and I thought, "I'll read different books once I've read all the King books." I stopped before I could finish all he's written, but I still plan to read it all one day. I've enjoyed my time reading literary fiction in general much more.
However, you don't see the same thing with fans of fantasy. These people will read nothing but fantasy, and balk at the suggestion that anything else is even worth reading. It is all "boring," or "hard." What is even more strange is that they will also dismiss the best of their genre, such as Tolkien, as unappealing. It's as if they have a total aversion to quality of any kind.
What can one do to introduce a fan of fantasy to more insightful, better written books?
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Why do you have so much trouble keeping dicks out of your ass?
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I havent really seen that, and personally I hardly make a distinction between literary and genre since they both can be either equally involved and stylistic or equally superficial trash.
People will read what they want to read, drop a line but dont force the issue.
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>Wardine be Cry.
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>>7672825
Epic jest friend.
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JEST
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>>7672825
Nice meme, but in all seriousness is there any explanation for why DFW would choose to write such a poorly rendered dialect? Or was this just a failed attempt at an actual recreation?
>inb4 authorial intent is dead
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It's 3AM and my slight is flickering
How fucked am I?
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When I went to the bathroom I saw a red eyed demonic woman in a picture I have on a wall
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Also something rustled under my window just now. It was prettty loud, I heard it over my headset music
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I have only so much liquor left, how do I survive
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ok guys.
I'm planning on making a short interactive comic or a small videogame (something between those two mediums).
My goal was to first to write a short story to have a guideline over what to work from.
Sadly, I'm a taco, taco, burrito señorita brown manlet and I'm not a good english writer (my grammar skills aren't top notch).
Here it's the spanish text:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5XObLJyxru8AbfAmbaA_6LD8Xwuo1g4RwhQm9LgBow/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry bout no being an english speaker.
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>>7672764
Es mierda hijo, mierda.
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>>7672833
I know.
but I need to finish a lot before making something good.
do you think Borges didn't wrote crap at the beggining?
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What does /lit think of Norman Mailer?
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I was always confused about Mailer's scant recognition here. Posted far less than Updike or even Roth.
You'd think someone like Mailer would interest /lit/ greatly. Executioner's Song accords with the standards of their meme trilogies, but, I've never even seen it suggested.
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Mailer is God. If it weren't for him I would have a much lower passion for lit in general. Probably wouldn't bother with posting on this board.
Not enough/hardly any mention on /lit/? Okay by me. You tards ruin everything.
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Never read him but I enjoyed the middle portion of River of Fundament.
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I'm getting kind of schizo other when people meme and not here on /lit/
for example everyone seems to hate IJ or other books while they are on the top100 list, so which books does /lit/ actually like and how do you know, while having aspergers, when people meme
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what
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>>7672191
The real meme is thinking that caring about other people's opinions is worthwhile
Just try reading something. If you like it good, if you don't like it, stop. It's that simple
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>>7672200
He said he's getting schizo, that's literally all you need to know.
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You will always envy another's life, simply because you are seeing it from the outside. It was not until I saw my life through a reflection, that I appreciated mine as well.
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So basically, the grass is always greener
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>>7672189
wow so deep i'll share this with all my facebook friends :^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
seriously, fuck off
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Ya, I bet she's at a superb owl party now.
Maybe I'll just rob her place.
Slut.