/lit/ - Literature

>banned

What the fuck is a litotes?
No googling faggot.

>Novels with a sense of impending doom

I'm talking about a certain sense of malicious, negative inevitability. Doom. As heart and soul crushing as possible.

Tonberry hit your best guy, and that counter is fucking counting down, and all your other party members are dead or barely alive -- and the last time you saved was 5 hours ago.

Hundreds of titans are at the wall and there are only 6 dudes with machetes
I actually hate AoT, but the beginning has the impending doom I'm talking about. Up until, ta-da, Eren isn't dead and can turn into a titan and the whole series is ruined

THERE'S A BOMB ON THE BUS, IT WILL EXPLODE IF WE GO UNDER 60, AND THERE'S A GAP IN THE ROAD UP AHEAD

I'm going around and trying to find different opinions on improving this passage. Can anyone lend a helping hand to a non-english major working on a book?


“During the night, when you sleep soundly and I lay awake, I sit on the side of the bed and I think; I think until it hurts. But had it not been for your preference of the wall rather than the edge of the bed, I may not have discovered what I had,” Esmond said, almost bragging.
“I never sleep soundly,” Alistair interrupted, feeling obligated to add that much.
“Regardless, I stepped onto that damnable bucket to look at the night sky. One night, I thought that it’d been so long since I’d felt a breeze anywhere else besides my face. So I looked up to Elysia; you’d be surprised how much more beautiful the moon looks from behind those bars. It was so close, Alistair. I could see its scars even from down here.”

The year is 2023. Bret Easton Ellis has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Worldwide outrage ensues over the Nobel Committee awarding the prize to a white cisgender male. The Committee insists it's all right because Ellis gay, but no one accepts this excuse.

Radfem rioting erupts across continental Europe. The UK institutes Sharia law. Haruki Murakami commits hari-kari, kicking off a wave of mass suicide across east Asia. OPEC shuts off oil to the west. Race wars break out in America's inner cities. A transethnic freegan otherkin militia based out of Portland secedes from the union, taking the west coast with them and igniting a second civil war. Highwaywomyn roam the countryside raping displaced travelers. The first lesbian President admits she had sex with a man once, gets assassinated by the senate Julius Caesar style. moot deletes /pol/.

You're hiding out inside your house with the door barricaded when all of a sudden, someone breaks in. You scramble to grab your trusty shotgun, but when you dive for your bed, a bootheel lightly steps on your hand, stopping you from reaching underneath.

You look up.

It's Thomas Pynchon. With him are Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Johnathan Franzen, and the vengeful ghost of David Foster Wallace.

"And but so come with us if you want to live," DFW says.

You can only take five books with you on your journey to reclaim the world for white men. What do you take?

God is the Will to Power personified, and permeates the entire universe.

Prove me wrong.

Holy shit, i just realized, that objectively is Literally going to be the new "Literally" once the internet gets done with it

I.e. reducing the word to a literally objectively meaningless "intensifier" aka meaningless internet buzzword for shitposting and trolling in a linguistical race to the bottom.

>>3133741
>fuck succubi.

>>2955237
>No, you're misrepresenting the point
Sorry, that wasn't the intention. I was just asking if you think the work of an author who reuses the same characters over and over again is inferior to their first book? The Dresden Files would be a good example.