/lit/ - Literature

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>>7772900
Its not coincidence. They meet at a cancer support group so its entirely logical that this "le quirky love story" could feasibly occur.

>>7772876
Get ready to hedge all of your words, assuming you're not lying.

>A)
You're going to have to start with his strengths, or to concede some ground to ease them into it. If you've actually been forced into this (which sounds like utter BS) then they'll go in ready to hate you. The less confrontational you are the more they'll be receptive to your opinions.

>B) Generalizations and platitudes.
Sounds bad on paper, but as someone else mentioned, you can easily make the argument that there are simply better things to read.

The issue is that "Young Adult Fiction" is more a descriptor of a medium than a genre. There are sci-fi, horror, mystery, etc, versions of "Young Adult" fiction. So what does young adult fiction mean then? It means fiction that's meant to appeal to immature tastes and reading comprehension.

Then follow this up easily with classic novels: Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Call of the Wild, Frankenstein, etc. These are all novels that are well in the capabilities and tastes of young adults, but they aren't DEFINED by that. They're simply solid fiction that CAN appeal to young adults.

>C) Challenges.
Don't aspire to mediocrity.

>D) ACTUALLY read and listen to him.
For fucks sake don't spout your idiotic opinions if you haven't read or listened to him. I've done both. I think he's decent, you could do much better, but you could do worse. I think he very much goes into writing with the awareness of wanting simply to encourage people to read, and not to act like some big shot. He's just happy to have had success. Knowing this will help you with doing A) and make you less of an asshole.

E) Appeal to subjectivity.
If you have to say what makes him bad in YOUR pov then you can conclude with specifics on what is unappealing to you. i.e. he doesn't focus on big questions, doesn't have subtly, doesn't have intertextuality, etc.

>>7397306
>>7395521
>>7395946

Idk about Bleeding Edge but I know enough to say that Pynchon is textbook post-modernism done extremely well.

Part of my literature course analyzed Crying of Lot 49 very interestingly. Speaking from that experience, I know that his work has great depth, and his prose -although discursive- is pretty damn impressive.

I think that the style of it being so elliptical and difficult is -in itself- a type of commentary or at least a progression into a new style representative of the era.

>>7265716

This way my first time writing for myself out of creativity. Pls no bully.

"His knuckles slid from the neck of the bottle. Roused from his complacent sedation, he rose, and strode to the house with self-assuring rigidity. The receiver now in hand, the high-inflected voice of insincerity ululated in his ear: “Hey Charles, how’s your weekend going?”. A momentary slip of composure, but no recoil as of yet. “Great! Y’know how it is, spending time with the wife and son in the sun, ha-ha-ha!”. How hypocritical to project such insincerity, But it’s easier to use the distant flame of resentment to feign the warmth of some type of sentiment he thought. Great. That’s great Charles. Great-great-great. So, would you mind just quickly ramming your head against the dry-wall a few times for me? Wait. “— just see the receptionist Sunday and you’ll find everything you’ll need, thank you so much”. “Yup. Got it (I didn’t). I’ll get right on that (like hell I will). Bye! (Fuck. You).”
Another weekend paints its resignation on the bathroom walls."