/lit/ - Literature

>>2297427
>not reading blurbs from the back of the book you're reading on the sly when asked by passers-by what your book is about
>2012

I had the most glorious one just today. A lady on the bus smiled at me and asked me what "The Master and Margarita" was about.

I held the book out to her, cover facing forward so I could read off the back discretely, and rolled off with a huge shit-eating grin:

"This is a carnivalesque romp through the dark ages of Stalin's Moscow. It's a masterpiece of magical surrealism, a triumph of the imagination."

She walked away with a confused look on her face.

>>2159265
>separating writers from the novels they've written, as if you can judge their writing separately from the book itself

Nigga, u are so dumb

>>2025165
>she thinks that people need to be able to say something to that person's face before they are allowed to post it anonymously on 4chan