/lit/ - Literature

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>>9722773

I've never seen someone promoting his book here, like posting a link to amazon of his novel. Is that not accepted? Why not? Or is it that noone here actually writes?

Which books should I read to become smarter, /lit/? I feel like reading fiction books gives me nothing. What are some books that really make you think?

ITT: Everybody gives his understanding of what a SPOOK is.

I'm tired of all the threads where one anon gives an explanation and two anons will say "that's not it" without improvong upon it

>>8193025
This guy is right.

Hard to argue that OP isn't all about gettig sex. If he cared for the books, he'd just concerned himself with those. Or he was deluded to expect he'd find 80% of copies of his own character in uni and discuss lit with them.

What would you do if you have a girlfriend who was as well-read and literature-infatuated as you?

Git gud OP

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>>6729947
me

>tfw talking to gf about french feminist literary theory after fucking

>>6692021

> tfw found my old parody of Lolita in the style of Pynchon's V. from when I was 18

Ripples molested the surface. They cancelled, waves falling flat as an untrained chest.

-- Look upon portside!

All attention careened to the portside. A beauty in the dock: harbored in V formation, with pink nylon fastening firm to shore. My eyes rapt at her seamy fasteners, nearly bursting at the seams. She lay tenderly etherized upon a spine board, buoyed as a ship against Norfolk sunset and oyster shells. I envied the one who would take her on a virginal voyage -- how I wished for shakedown! To cast off those ropes, spill decks with blood of the hunt, spill with blood of the enemy seafarers, blood of a battle -- V formation coagulating with my spine, now W formation! W formation! Legs locked against spine! One and one making one in the water! Blood of the fruit in the water! And then to cast it off as soiled spoils of sport (mutiny aboard the Bounty!), spoiled pink nylon upon seedy surface tension, tending to an escape, escapades in a court martial, serving a prison marshal behind bars for twenty to life.
She molested my attention. Waves canceled around her form, now propagating flat as her chest (which would sadly grow parallel her emotional maturity, sprouting cantaloupes within the year.) My Profanity hitched a ride from Norfolk to seedy New York: I wanted to have sexual intercourse with this fourteen year old girl. I wanted to have sex with her In the water. I wanted to fuck her while others watched without merit, and I fucked without mercy. I wanted to tear the greater of her two evils, her two piece swimsuit, the bottom of her two piece swimsuit, tear it like a parent rips boxtops from the child’s box of Kellogg's, set it afloat with the ceaseless woes of a Parent Teacher Association short on boxtops, her mother pacing with a baggie of boxtops in a Parent Teacher Association meeting while her dropped-off daughter train to be a lifeguard in the water, her mother ignorant of her daughter’s pummel as she concerns herself with middle school funds scraped from boxtops, her daughter’s sinful V transvertebrating with my loins in the water. Her daughter’s tongue would make a trip of two steps down to my palate, recycling my used air, filtering it through gentle pubescent pheromones and venting it through her turned-up nose. I tasted my breath, cupping two hands around my mouth and filtering my air through two nostrils. Coffee. Could a fourteen-year-old’s pheromones percolate a morning’s coffee-breath?

-- Look upon hindsight!

FUCK BOOKSHELF THREADS
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
STOP SHOVING YOUR "FANCY" TASTE DOWN OUR THROATS
LOOK FOR THE VALIDATION OF STRANGERS ELSEWHERE
WE DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR BOOK COLLECTION
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO IMPRESS ANYBODY

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>>6496847

When did "Reads a lot" stop being a positive quality for a male to have, in a woman's eyes?

>>5898571
I think the distinction is really cut between snooty, elitist fawning, a want to keep things in a binary hierarchy, and real bliss in simulating understanding with a text, be it TV or a novel. I think the former is made more for posturing and and an aristocratic political policy of "keeping things clandestine, and within the family." The latter however provides a platform for the imagination, aiding it in understanding an inexplicable knot, or a literary labyrinth. The best one can do is something like Ariadne's Golden Thread in the myth and the eponymous method of logical analysis. In it one has to be brave, and act through fear and despair, in order to explore and kindle within themselves a stronger constitution.

>>5865113

Guys, I'm getting kind of bored of pretending that I like literature. What do you think I should do next? I'm a girl, btw :P

http://strawpoll.me/2360359

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