/lit/ - Literature

>>9599532

> write first draft of a book
> girl I'm friends with says it's cool I write
> ask her politely if she'll read my first draft
> "uhh ok but i'm not free today"
> she says she reads it
> Gets back to me
> "It's nice"
> "which part did you like most?"
> "it's just really good, you should write more sometime"
> she doesn't speak to me again

like, i get it if it was some edgy horrorcore erotica but it wasn't

> Once there was war.
> Then there was peace.

It's 1000+ blank pages after that. The fuck, Tolstoy.

> my little brother says he likes to read
> never reads
> he catches me reading some of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow - it's pretty good, memes aside, would recommend
> he says "wow, that book is massive, what's it about?"
> struggle to tell him what it's really about, but tell him some of my favourite passages, a simple run-down of the narrative and some of the experimental methods it uses to connect unusual story points together (if you've not read it, there's a giant octopus that threatens a woman on a French beach, a man who is flushed down a toilet to avoid being raped by Malcolm X and steamy sex affairs, as well as beautiful abstract metaphors that can extend to a page sometimes)
> he says it sounds amazing and I say it is but that he'll probably struggle with it like I was
> "nah it's fine, as long as you follow the story it can't get that complicated"
> Shrug and let him borrow it when I finish it, just so he can see he's talking shit
> a year later, which is a few weeks ago, wonder where my copy of GR has gone
> remember he has it somewhere
> ask him for it back
> "Awww, but it makes my shelf look really nice. it's a good thick book, makes me look like a better reader lol"
> he actually says "lol"
> i ask what he thought of it
> "nah, I didn't like it. Didn't get past the first pages, it was boring. Nothing complicated it just goes on and on lol"
> ask him for it back
> get it back
> notice some pages are missing, who tears pages out of a book?
> he drew stick men on the back pages
> he's 19 years old

What the hell

> Disney's remake for beauty and the beast in cinemas
> see so many people saying how excited they are for it because "it's a story as old as time"

The original story was published in 1740, so existence has only been around for the past 277 years for these people. This shit really triggers my autismo.

>>9223199
> booktubers with shelves full of YA fiction, Harry Potter/every JK Rowling book, piss-poor genre fiction and self help books
> main culprits are women who organise it based on colour and size

can literature just be a cool guy club from now on, everyone else wants to ruin it

>>9212712
Bookstore story here:
> go to WH Smiths in town
> have about £25 on me, pretty bad at maths but figure that I can get a couple of books with it
> pick up Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Homer's Odyssey. I know it's entry-level pleb-tier high-school-core, but I hadn't the chance to read these before and figured it'd be a good deal
> take it to the cashier, sweet woman probably in her fifties takes the books and smiles at me, says she wished more people would buy books like this
> the books total up to £30
> tell her i'm actually a little short for cash
> she says "no worries" and takes an unused voucher from behind the counter, scanning it and giving me £10 off from my books
> go through my wallet, getting the money to pay her and basically place every banknote on the counter thinking it's £25
> it's £30
> she looks at me, not amused
> "oh god, I'm so sorry, I'm awful with numbers and I thought I was short of cash" - completely legitimately made this mistake
> try to smile it off but she isn't amused and just passes me the books
> leave the shop feeling embarrassed

>>9165119

> all this hostility
> just because somebody asked a question about what happens after being dropped by a publisher

>>9109435
> OP asks for last five
> he only posts four

I know you're not a mathematician.

>>9065813