/lit/ - Literature

bad prose
stupid characters
flat characters
useless characters
formulaic plot
lack of conflict

I just described every Harry Potter book.

The difference between Neal Stephenson and China Miéville for me is that I never liked the latter, even though I’m supposed to; even though it is simply an accepted fact that people of any cognition whatsoever are turning each page with a shaking hand, ready to receive his next sacred revelation. I own every one of his books, each time thinking this will be the one until his unique ocular drill begins to whir and I must hurl the book across the room or be blinded. This may be the first time you have read on a website that China Miéville is something less than a God; I’ve certainly never seen it typed, which was reason enough to do it.

In trying to understand what it was precisely I found so intolerable, I recalled a song called “Fit But You Know It” by The Streets. Being smart, or beautiful, or strong, or confident, or epitomizing any other virtue is whatever. But you can push these things, you can grind them into another person, and we have social censure for this kind of behavior. His writing is incredibly smug. I can feel him leering at me through his typewriter, shoulders up, breathing hard. That’s when I stand up, walk over to the bookshelf, and place it with the others. No way. We have no shared history; I’m not going to bore through one of these things out of deference to some prior affection. I don’t owe him shit.

Apparently he has a book where there are two cities and they, like, overlap. That’s what I heard anyway, and if someone else had written it maybe that would matter.

Women are free to wear whatever they want

Women are not free of ridicule. Nobody is.

DEAL WITH IT.

who is this author / book?

he was a janitor who wrote a huge series or novel that spanned over 16,000 pages. I don't think he officially released it. It might have been published after his death. It dealt with kids and stuff...

he was something of a big deal

>>1110476
>post-apocalyptic samurai Macbeth

>>713282
>Frodo Baggins : I can't do this Sam.
>Sam Gamgee: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here.

Am I the one that's going to have to say this?

This quote isn't from the book. It's from the movie. The whole "By all rights we shouldn't even be here" is a tongue in cheek reference that in the books, Frodo and Sam never went to Battle of Osgiliath like they do in the movies.

NOT LITERATURE

HOMEWORK

NOT LITERATURE

HOMEWORK

NOT LITERATURE

Any publisher that uses "Lightning Source Press" such as Lulu is a scam.

You will never find a book published by Lulu in a real bookstore, like Barnes and Nobel or something. It's because Lulu actually makes it less profitable for book stores to carry their publications. Also, Lulu publishes a lot of shit, and book stores know this. When someone comes to Boarders or something wanting them to carry their book published from Lulu, all they think is "oh great, another talentless moron who couldn't get a real publisher to touch their stupid shit. I bet it's got spelling errors everywhere."

I worked an an independent book store, and a girl in middle school came in asking if we would carry her book in our store. We couldn't because (1) it's not profitable, since if a book doesn't sell within a certain period of time, we return it to the publisher, and you can't do that with Lulu books, (2) young adult books regularly have a standard price of about $10, and her book cost three times that much, (3) the book's dimensions were simply too big to fit in the Young Adult book shelves; not only was it 500+ pages in length, but it was too tall to fit on the shelf, and (4) publishers are supposed to root out the garbage from the publishable stories, but publishers like Lulu makes the book store owners make those incredibly awkward decisions with the publisher right in front of you.

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And I bet not a single one of you stupid faggots reported this thread.

>This is not a fan-fic board!
>This is not a fan-fic board!
>This is not a fan-fic board!
>This is not a fan-fic board!

>>475206
>The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski

I've been meaning to read this. I read a small excerpt of it and it seemed really nice. But I hear it has some pretty severe plagiarism accusations against it.

>>475245
I share your sentiments. God, how could a bit of prequel fanfiction be considered one of the best books of the century? If that author's so great, how about she comes up with some original characters instead of piggybacking off of the success of Charlotte Bronte?

Fucking women authors.

sure is great coming to /lit/ to discuss smoking instead of literature.

Oh look, there's a thread about eating instead of literature.

And there's a "do my homework" thread.

And there's another Twilight thread.

way to be a bunch of il/lit/erates.