/lit/ - Literature

For me, it really depends on the book.

If it's a shitty book, I'll put the book down when I'm done. Then maybe I'll watch some TV, do some homework, pick my next book to read, go play some tennis, maybe write, whatever.

If I'm reading a book that I really like I actually start to feel a little depressed towards the end, because to me it feels like I'm about to lose a good friend.

>ITT: A whole lot of people who don't know what postmodernism is.

Just like every other postmodernism thread /lit/ has had.

>>1244417
I wouldn't even call him a poet.

Bukowski is to poetry as kindergarten fingerpainting is to illustrated art.

>What do you think of my collection?

I think that books are meant to be read, not collected.

>>1241920

>>1241903
I've yet to explore that venue, but if it'd get me published then maybe I'll look into it.

>>1241897
I apparently write shitty short stories, as far as I can tell.

Let's talk getting your work shat on by unseen judgmental phantoms. Like, what you're trying to get published, how often you've been rejected, how it makes you feel, what it felt like to finally get published (if you have), etc.

I've been trying to get my short stories published for the past few months, since about March. It's certainly unrealistic for me to think that I should've been published by now, but still. I've sent out three stories, and so far they've resulted in nothing but rejections, all of which are form letters. There are also some journals that have yet to respond, but I am sure that those will turn into rejections soon enough. Though there was one form letter that was friendlier (our readers responded positively to your work, but we can't place it in our journal, et cetera), though that wasn't much of a consolation.

I also entered a contest recently, and I believe that my piece made a deep run, but it got ultimately got squished. The winner is some poet, and I found a piece of that writer's poetry online, and it's not . . . . that good. I can't help but feel that whatever won that contest is inferior to what I wrote.

Though, obviously, the publishing game is based on a whole lot of subjectivity, but that's the most frustrating part of it. You send out stuff, and you feel it's good, but what you think about what you've written doesn't amount to shit. The fact that you have absolutely no control over the process whatsoever drives me up the wall.

>Roger Federer
>Babolat racquets
>Charles Bukowski
>Sherman Alexie
>Lady Gaga
>McDonald's
>World of Warcraft
>Joanna Newsom
>Marriage

>Last book I read.
Infinite Jest. Finally finished it after a few (grueling (but very enjoyable)) months. I honestly wish that it were 500 pages longer, or that there were a 1500 page sequel.

>Reading next.
American Psycho, because after reading Infinite Jest, well, I'm really looking to ease into a book that doesn't use big words, and so far the biggest words are 'Armani' and 'Toshiba.'

>>1239839
>ITT: Neckbeards calling neckbeards neckbeards.

>Comics thread.
>Turns into sci-fi nerds arguing over their shitty "literature."

This is why I hate science fiction and the people who read science fiction.

>>1239539
WHOOPS, FORGOT MY TRIP.

>>1238225
Do you go to UH yourself?

>>1237898
Really, you're only going get this handled by talking to her. You aren't going to read your teacher's mind. I'm also pretty sure that teachers appreciate students who put in the time and effort to get shit done. I can't think of a teacher that ever liked the uncaring/silent kid who sat in the back of the class.

>>1237879
It's needlessly verbose and rather clunky.

Of course, I'm just guessing there. Your AP teach might not appreciate the line for other reasons.

It would probably be best to ask him.

>>1237663
Bros4Lyfe

>>1237634
Whoops.

>p.s. u so mad rite now lol

I'd say Tropic of Cancer was the most vulgar book I've ever read.

Also saging this thread because Naked Lunch is a pile of shit.

>in b4 Tao Lin.

I think the SUCK IT is a pretty good idea actually.

>>1233281
I swear, whenever I'm reading his stuff, I'm like, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS GUY DO A READING SOMEWHERE.

I don't know why I always forget the fact that he's pushing up daisies.

>>1232550
>This is now a let's-laugh-at-James-Franco thread.

http://www.esquire.com/fiction/james-franco-fiction-0410

itt: eighty percent of the posters are tao lin (including myself hehehehe).

>>1232488
>>1232474

Seconding these.

I'd suggest checking out Winesburg, Ohio. Books a bit old school, but it's a very nice read.