/lit/ - Literature

>>7219267
What is ambitious about it? Name one theme or idea.

What is clever about it?

What is good about the writing?

Seriously what is good about this book i don't get it at all

>>7208380
genuinely disgusting wow

>>7208504
nice blog thanks for taking up half the thread to share it cool

>>7208608
one of the only excerpts i've seen with a fem protag. the writing is easy reading but conveys nothing beyond "this is it as it happened" is there a subtext i'm missing? similar to "the tenant"

>>7141916
i like it.. genuinely funny, genuinely arousing ;) well done you did good

>>7139960
i really liked House of Leaves when i read it a long time ago but i did not like this

>>7142142
i really liked
>middle of a blizzard with my dad’s Coca-Cola skin
until it became apparent that you intended that as a serious metaphor and not a cheeky jab of surreal imagery
your purple prose doesn't marry well to the "aw shucks" slice of life thing very well at all and needless to say this doesn't read like a real childhood memory but of something seen on television

>>7142166
tom clancy strikes again

>>7142259
reads like lana del rey lyrics (not necessarily a bad thing)

>>7142424
>moment of skidding when your shoe first touches the wet surface, followed by an almost instantaneous revision to stability
i know that feeling yeah
>>7142427
ok the first half wasn't bad (not great either) but the second half is so overwritten it's cheesey af
>quoting wordsworth in this
whyy

>>7142547
>lovecraft
lol

>>5342497
>anything i don't like comes from tumblr