/lit/ - Literature

>>21922286
>5 hours

>>16559947
Welcome to writing. Nothing you ever write will feel good and the only thing that will change is the number of people agreeing with you.

>>15301337
>>15301362
There you go. It's deleted.

Hey lit. I was trying to find a particular book, but cannot remember the name. I remember it getting memed around here once in a while with a typical "what did he mean by this?" and it has a page where some dude is saying something about "and she sucked it" and so on. Sounds like a black guy saying that part. Any idea?

>>13719502
To anyone wondering why the titles are so absurd: it is a combination of Japanese light novel writers being teens or early adults and just generally being shit writers (obviously) plus another factor.

To truly understand the shit of Light Novels, you must first understand the soul-crushing lifestyle of your average asian. They are not looking for literary genius or compelling stories, they are looking for an escape. They live in their tiny one-room apartments, wake up, and ride a packed train to work. Your average Japanese salaryman must survive some of the worst corporate culture in the world where no one is really allowed to excel and climb the corporate ladder. All workers are expected to leave only when the boss leaves (they are expected to apologize if they must leave beforehand), and must appear to be "working" at all times even when there is not work to do, which ends up in the entire office slapping their keyboards for an extra two hours as the boss pretends to work too so he looks good to his boss. After this day, they return home to their empty apartment and either go to bed early because they are too tired to engage in any hobby, or stay up far too late playing online games and masturbating to anime to distract themselves from their empty lives.

This is where the light novel comes in. They need something they can read on the train rides to and from home, and generally read the whole volume in one to two sessions and are mostly interested in stories about escapism, (hence the prevalence of harems, overpowered self-insert MCs, and isekai). They pick it out before their ride, and want to be certain of what they are getting.

This creates an arms race of LN titles to be as descriptive as possible, since it's the only thing the reader will go on to make their knee-jerk decision in the minutes before their train leaves. I could go on for hours about this shittiness of Japanese media, but I hope this little tidbit has enlightened you