/lit/ - Literature

>>948512
you'd be surprised by the cloud of sycophants that surround academic artists

>>948493
>Anyone could do this.

not a good argument

>Some guy splashing paint and going "lol it is a masterpiece!" is just a lazy piece of shit

this is a better argument

>>948457
GOATSE IS FINE ART NOW

>>948453
jesus christ.

INTERNET IS FINE ART NOW

>>948422
Tubgirl is fine art now.

you saw it here first.

>>948374
LOL HE'S SO SHOCKING AND PROVOCATIVE

IT'S NOT GIMMICKY AT ALL!

>>902668
my favorite romance

>>897022
I'd try to get chapters published independently in magazines or journals or something in order to build publicity

>>896971
you had to know that was inevitable.

>>896967
in all seriousness, your best bet would be to make a small-run freebie yourself with friends and distribute it where there are hipsters in your city

don't send manuscripts to Poetry.

they just do not take unsolicited manuscripts, and any claims that they do is bullshit.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens:

goosedog 69 (New York) wrote: "if you don't like reading books with way too much detail than don't buy this book. when i was reading it i couldn't understand anything it said. if you are older maybe you wouldn't think it's boring, or if you like this author's books, but i thought it was very boring and it took me forever and a half to read."

A reader wrote: "I found this book difficult to follow and hard to hold my interest. I am an English teacher so I don't think it's me. I was revved about the book and started it immediately unpon receipt. I didn't even finish it--which is something I can say about few books..."

those... those might actually have merit. Dickens blows. I don't care if you got payed by the word Chuck, it's purple prose.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe:

Newton Ooi (in Phoenix, AZ) wrote: "If imitation is the highest form of praise, then this book must be one of the most praised books in the English canon. A man from a middle-class upbringing leaves it and ends up stuck on a tropical island. This story would inspire Swiss Family Robinson, Castaway, and probably Lord of the Flies. Mr. Crusoe is a white, Englishman with a wife and kids. After the wife dies, he leaves the kids to go on his own and to serve God. He ends up stuck on an island by himself. There he encounters cannibalistic natives, and one of their intended victims. The former scares him, and he essentially enslaves the latter, teaching him to call him Master.

"The book is not that interesting, as tales of desperation and survival are actually quite common."

>"The book is not that interesting, as tales of desperation and survival are actually quite common."

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare:

Son of Sammy wrote: "i just read this book. everybody like always talks about how great it is and everything. but i don't think so. like, it's been done before, right?? soooo cliched. omg."

>In my opinion, buy it to learn the person's detailed life, but don't be suprised if it is boring

>>460012
I expected far more of the typical Wilde wit.

it was surprisingly moralistic.

>>459971
welcome to transcendentalism nigga