/lit/ - Literature

You strive to attain monetary success through literature, anon? Take the John Green pill.
>Step 1: Locate the most popular genre
>Step 2: Imbed all reigning mores and platitudes of popular culture within said genre
>Step 3: Create a niche within said genre - the more pathetic and tragic, the better
>Step 4: Rehash the same basic plot for all your books, adjusting the mores and platitudes as/if they change
>Step 5: Profit
Simple as

Think for yourself guys

>"John Green sucks!"
Have you actually read any of his books?
>"Well, n-no, but my friends on /lit/ told me he sucks and he writes for teenage girls! Reddit haha!"

>>12147412
The thing Dany did next scared and shocked and surprised me in a way nothing had ever ever scared or shocked or surprised me until that moment, a moment which lasted no longer than one sharp intake of foul smell but one I have no doubt will last my entire life. She said 'BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP'. Not 'I need to use the bathroom' or 'Can you help me?' or 'I'm sorry about this'. I exhaled. Dany did too and for the first time I realized she was as scared as I was of admitting the way she felt. I stepped forward and held her hips. 'Do you want me to go buy toilet paper?' I asked. 'I think so!' she replied, groaning.

Any John Green fans here? What's your favourite book by him?

I enjoyed TFIOS and Paper Towns

Are there any excerpts or phrases from books that make you wonder how it got published?

It's too late now, but do you believe that he could have been a respectable author if Hank got aborted?

>>10066379
>The flame of
>heart
>is nothing after
>it extinguishes

>"The thing Alaska did next scared and shocked and surprised me in a way nothing had ever ever scared or shocked or surprised me until that moment, a moment which lasted no longer than one sharp intake of breath but one I have no doubt will last my entire life. She said 'I love you'. Not 'You're cool' or 'I had a really fun time' or 'Do you always kiss like that?' I love you. As in 'I, Alaska Young, love you, Miles Halter'. As in 'I Alaska Young have not only noticed that you Miles Halter exist but I positively adore the fact that you do'. I exhaled. Alaska did too and for the first time I realized she was as scared as I was of admitting the way she felt. I stepped forward and held her hips. 'Are you sure?' I asked. 'I think so!' she replied, smiling. I must have pushed her backwards because just then her body nudged the lightswitch and the room became as dark as my life was without Alaska in it. Laughing, she slipped out of my grasp and disappeared somewhere inside the room. I reached out like a blind man searching for the object that might grant him sight. Truly, I was Looking for Alaska"

-Looking for Alaska, p.124

WHY ARE THERE NO WOMEN??? WILLIAM GOLDING IS A SEXIST PIG WHO WON'T REPRESENT WOMEN!!! THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!

>>9840146
>Life is weird, why not look at it weirdly.

John "Cuck King" Green

Is /lit/ always this active during the day? My sleep schedule is usually fucked up so I only visit the board at like 3:00 in the morning. (Aimless NEET)

>>8723484

Within literary circles, is John Green considered a good (not necessarily great) writer?

I know that DFW had planned to insert him as a character in The Pale King the same way he did himself, it just wasn't fleshed out in a way that was publishable.

>this is the end result of DFW's influence
bravo, David.

>>8620025
>Alaska is peeling spliffs like peeling back foreskin. It's a hot-box in the way that a microwave is a hot box and I'm choking to death on a rooty-tooty-patootie ass-cloud of weed dust like crusting butt must. Alaska turns to me, the folds in her pants churning like a thousand dick exposés, my eyes rolling back and way back chutes-with-ladders-esque down my throat and into my ass.

The """"""influence"""""" of David Foster Wallace.

>>8456556
>Episcopal
>Great YA author
>Not a nihilist cuck
>Married to an art historian

No happy person wouldn't at least respect the Meme Green

>The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people. In his systematic efforts to ruin girls and women he strives to break down the last barriers of discrimination between him and other peoples.

KILL WHITEY LMAO