/lit/ - Literature

>>8754750
>I'm committing suicide in a few months, so I want to read all the books I heard about but never got around to reading.
>Almost done Atlas Shrugged. It's entertaining, and not bad.

Wow you actually took my advice when I said kys

>>8693183
>caring about non-American opinions

>>8571592
Uh huh sure

>>8523656
lel the irony in this post. see >>8523666
Consider lurking for a another few years

Most of what Americans consider literary canon is overwrought pseudo-religious dogma, also it doesn't make money/earn respect/mass publicity anymore.
"On August 15, 2011, The New York Observer reported that Lin had sold his third novel, then titled Taipei, Taiwan, to Vintage.[1] Lin's agent, Bill Clegg, brokered the deal with editor Tim O'Connell based on "a 5000-word excerpt and a ~3-page outline", for "$50,000 with a $10,000 bonus if it earns out its advance."