/lit/ - Literature

>>14290686
>dat ending

>19 yr old girl finds herself increasingly distanced from her friends and their hedonistic lifestyle
>she quits her job, draining her savings to live a pointless NEET life
>meets a Redditor guy and they have long conversations at Waffle House at 3AM
>she friendzones him and she is further alienated from everyone around her
>set in the month of December so I can just shit on consumerist normies in their Christmas craze

So basically just a pathetic facsimile of Book of Disquiet for millennials.

>>11408622
>the modern peasant who might be convinced to risk it all
>aka anonymous 20-somethings on an online imageboard

>>11297223
But dude, there is a lot more than what is recommended here. And in my opinion what is called YA should only be called shit as there are genuinely interesting stuff that appeal to young adults, they just don't get enough light.

>>11286571
>Better than it's ever been.

>tfw write every day but only about two or three paragraphs
>tfw I despise every word I write but still don't want to stop

>>11044949
That's the thing about it, brother anon: only the geniuses suffer for their work.

What books did you enjoy reading as a child? Tell me about em.

>tfw I would read a Series of Unfortunate Events book in one day but as a teenage went on to play vidya instead of reading more
>tfw having to catch up now as an adult

Does anyone else feel like their writing lacks direction? I've been following some prompts from a book I received as a gift. But everything I come up with is just too long-winded even when plan it all out beforehand.

How do I git gud?

>writing on paper is "old school"

Timmy Tingler

>>6412181
>mfw I fail those captchas

hey /lit/ how do you motivate yourself to read/work on your backlog? I have about 15 books I wanna read this year but I always put it off or play video games instead.

I want to train myself to be more well-rounded, consumption wise, but I dont know what to do

>Like many other women who read this book (American Psycho), I found myself getting faint and queasy, and ended up hurling it across the room in disgust. I couldn't make it to the end. As a female and a feminist, I found the book problematic.
Of course, the character of Bateman is supposed to be vile, but his misogyny is so pronounced that I find it hard to simply glom it on with the rest of his misanthropic tics. Sure, he kills his a*hole co-worker, and a few other dudes here and there, but mostly, he kills women. And unlike the asexual murder of his colleague, these womens' deaths are hyper-sexualized. They are all committed post-coitally, they are almost all prostitutes. While I don't think that Bret Easton Ellis is unaware of the misogynist content of A.P., I nevertheless find it more disturbing because of the narrator's lack of analysis, and because of a dearth of the clever commentary Ellis sneaks in during so many other moments in the novel. It is heady territory, just waiting to be mined by some iron-willed feminist scholar with the eggs for it, but I am not that woman, and if you don't think you're that woman either, then I would STRONGLY advise avoiding American Psycho.

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