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>participate in class discussion every week, not overzealous, but i make a couple erudite comments here and there
>girls all impressed when i mention Joyce or Melville
>girl shows interest, asks to exchange numbers in case she needs help with an essay we were assigned
>feeling fly af
>finna quote Ulysses into her pussy
>don't want to fuck this up
>avoid her for the rest of my life so i dont fuck it up
>read Moby Dick a fourth time
>wallow

>first year of college
>Shit for gaydar
>Don't know which guys I can talk to.
>Don't have the confidence to talk to them anyway.
There's an awkward YA novel in there somewhere and I have to write it.

This is an /r9k/ thread. There's nothing literary about this. Kindly fuck off.

>>7313162
Excellent troll post

>>7313172
Not a troll post mate. I get why you think it would be though.

>>7313185
Well then I really don't know what to say. I think, in general, gender is pretty important to an authors presentation of character and would distort it's message if it was changed to something ridiculous. In the cases when it's not, it'd just superficial and signs more of badwrriting.

Don't read much romance (read Twight in my tweens though) which is probably the best genre for it.

Amadeus or a bit of the ol' Ludwig Van desu

I personally like to watch a movie and swim while reading, haven't tried listening to music yet.

>>7313152
Classical if it's just comfy reading (research papers, works that I'm not going to analyze or think about). Earplugs if it's not (when I'm studying, analyzing, or the text is difficult).

The trash bin.

American Power and the New Mandarins

>>7313138
On Language

>>7312973
It's a dumb gimmick that's fun in small measures and tedious if you decide to fill large chunks of your book/story/whatever with it.

>>7312986
Think you'll find that regularised spelling that takes little notice of how people actually pronounce and talk, making everyone sound the same, is the dumb gimmick.

>>7312973
>welsh
Please stop; you're tainting my love of this board.

>>7312916
I don't think most of us have read it. Isn't it out of print at the moment? You'll probably have better luck if/when that reprint I heard rumors about actually happens.

>>7312916
Share your thoughts. I'd like to hear what the book is about.

>>7312938
I got it from my girlfriends university library and I was the first person ever to take it out since they got it in 1987 it was weird

>it really made me realize how much I dislike realism in lit

so you dislike a good majority of the western canon...?

>>7312861
Depends what books you are talking about to be honest, because it's not that I hate it, it's just that I prefer other things, like more avant-garde stuff, and maybe more magical realism in a sense.

>>7312874
What do you mean by
> making you forget you are even reading a book; almost as if I'm just seeing scenes from the book in my head in sequence.

since that's essentially what a book is. Do you define/think of books as escapism or something?

My Life was brilliant.
I only read Three Sisters at the age of 17 and didn't like it much then.

Story - Gooseberries. Seriously, it's fucking brilliant.

The dingle in my nuggies was the best 1

it's nothing super amazing but the rest of his stuff is heaps better than white noise

i've read underworld, white noise, and mao ii

mao ii is a failure
white noise is really solid and quite funny
underworld is breathtaking at parts. probably too long but some of the best passages in postwar american literature

delillo is an amazing stylist but he has obvious faults (monotonous character construction, clumsily inherited pynchonisms, ambitions he can't quite match)

>>7312317
Alright thanks. I get the impression you aren't much of a DeLillo fan at all

He was a bat in human form.

He's alive senpai

What's Knut Hamsun's best book?

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>Zverkov

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>>7312258

>Nothing but rampant alcoholism for page after page

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>The proposition of feces in my mouth
>Rockets on their way back down

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The concept of Western esotericism is a modern scholarly construct

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Scholars established this category in the late 18th century after identifying "structural similarities" between "the ideas and world-views of a wide variety of thinkers and movements"

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Western esotericism consists of "a vast spectrum of authors, trends, works of philosophy, religion, art, literature, and music"

>>7312231
make it gross or comedic

Downplay its intimacy. Most sex scenes in literary fiction paint sex as pointless, mundane, horrifying, or simply disappointing.

>>7312231
Literary sex is either non-satisfying or non-consensual. If you write positively about sex, it's porn.

>>7312202
Not literature

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>>7312182
The Haunts of His Youth, by Jonathan Strong.

Most of the stories aren't "out" gay fiction but they're all gay fiction, so that's interesting.

>>7312082
fuck off cancer

>>7312096
Tell me about it man. /his/ was a terrible idea

Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker