/lit/ - Literature

>>23156864
>all the effort to sustain the pretty picture show had better be worth the payoff in conceptual and symbolic content.
Yeah, I realized that a book needs to have a strong plot or theme or purpose to capture me. Most literary fiction is just a bunch of words to dazzle you, but it's empty underneath.

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