Is writing about one's love of reading pretentious?

>>9815411
no

>>9815411
worrying whether you're pretentious is pretentious

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>>9815411
nah m8, just put it in a really complicated way and someone will follow you

>>9815411

It's almost always dull as shit. Valorising reading and writers is the bread and butter of mediocre litfic.

>>9815411
True love is never pretentious.

Not pretentious, just boring and self-indulgent.

>>9815411
If you can write like william gass it's okay

>>9815411
especially when attempted by boors like DFW who mistook the trash they were fed for time-tested and proven actual talent with words, and moreso when that injustice is extended to people who remember when neurosis was the engine rather than the whole fucking car, though honestly thinking that way it's not a shock at fucking all.

If Stoner is pretentious, then being pretentious is A ok

It is on /lit/.

>>9815551
Yes. Fahrenheit 451 was fucking awful.