/lit/ - Literature

pic related, it's what she looked like, only prettier and less slutty

Underneath the Sealab
Underneath the water

those 50 pages are arguably my favourite of any book ever

5/10. Not your best story, brownbear. The Twilight bit was funny, a good reversal.

Are you actually reading Under The Volcano?

I'm pretty sure you posted this, or something very similar before, but nevermind. It's still hilarious. It's even more hilarious when I imagine you as some obese neckbeard cringing as some tight little hottie tries to get into your sweaty elastic pants.

I finished Under the Volcano a few weeks ago.

Personally, I found it a difficult read but not to say I didn't enjoy it. The final chapter and the one on the bus are the best in the book.

>>1726144
>>1726144
yes i am

>>1726160
>>1726160
yeah the chapter on the bus with the Indian was top banana

bump

What book are you going to read next?

>>1726242
>>1726242
Brave New World by Huxley, never read it before

I've said it before, but-
I'd def purchase Brownbear: The Collected Works
or
The Girl Chronicles, by Brown R. R. Bear
or
Prettier and Less Slutty: A Brownbear Anthology
or
Books and Bitches: My Life, by Brownbear

Malcolm Lowry squatted in my hometown for a while.

So, that's cool. I guess.

>>1726270
>>1726270
im actually collecting them together and (not even joking) i would want to send you a copy, i'd pay to get it printed and everything V Dubby

>>1726270
That would be top banana.

>she gets offended and tells me her other favourites include fantasy books such as A Son-
>stop her there and inform her that if she's wants to escape reality she should just kill herself.

But you just said that "taste was subjective." D:

>>1726274
I want that to happen so bad.
I'll send you my poems from The Anaconda Cycle in return (I'm not sure if you read any of these but I wrote a total of ten and posted them throughout several poetry threads on here).
I am effing $100 serious
I will send you a hand-written collection
in either print or cursive as per your preferences
with author's notes and a special dedication
in a rlly chic little notebook

>>1726269
We'll read it together~
I'll start tonight and we can talk about it in your next thread~

>>1726292
>>1726292
here is my email V Dubby
i really want to be your bro IRL
;_;

>>1726294
>>1726294
okay sounds cool, reading last fiddy pages of UTV now will start BNW later on.

Nice thread Brownbear - to sage and report that is. The aside at the bottom of your post doesn't redeem the heap of shit on top of it.

>>1726304
>>1726304

another off-topic shit post by Anonymous!

>>1726274
>i'd pay to get it printed and everything
Is a lot like saying:
>I have no life.

>>1726309

>He talks about the first post
>You call him off-topic.

>>1726311
>>1726311
>stop doing what i don't do xD
it's cheap as fuck to get one copy of something printed, it's equate to about 50 pages maximum

are there any other covers that aren't ass for that novel

srsly, it's like looking at some sort of caribbean adventure book for teens or something

>>1726326
>>1726326
here's the cover that mine has
(picked it up 2nd hand from Oxfam)

>>1726326
>>1726326
this is mine

Make that 2 copies please.
I made you a book cover~

>>1726344
lol

>>1726344
WOAH.
That looks nice.

>>1726352
>>1726349
Thank you :3

>>1726344
>>1726344

>>1726371

>>1726360

awesome...
another fucking queer joins the roster; this is all turning sour really fucking quick.
and brownbear. if these stories are real, you should kill yourself. If they are your pathetic attempt at absurdist fiction,manifest as these annoying fucking "coming out of the closet" miniseries, then you should still kill yourself.

Just finished the book
ending was p good
i give it 3/5 stars

also last 20 pages made up for it
best part was bus scene with Indian on the horse and last 20 pages.

not sure if story is true...

>>1726484
>>1726484
you're so silly

lol'd OP

>sitting at my local 'fair trade" coffee roasting house
>trying to cross-reference three different translations of The Possessed
>a girl wearing hot pink shorts with black tights sits down next to me, shoves books off the table
>I, incredulous to what has just happened, ask her why she would do such a thing
>she tells me that she wants to make our first encounter "out of the ordinary" as she is an "extraordinary" girl
>continues to tell me that I'm lucky indeed; she's seen something special in me, she feels a kinship towards me
>she cocks her head to the side and asks if I, like her, read the Animorphs books as a child
>Look. I think you have misunderstood me. Just because I read books in public (although you will note I did take this high-backed booth in the corner of the shoppe for reasons of anonymity and seclusion; my flatmates are rather noisy and I come here for respite and succor) doesn't mean that, like you, I seek attention or recognition for my interests.
>she asks me if that's a quote, she loves quotes, one of her favorites is Vonnegut's "so it went"
>I flag down a barista and ask her for a copy of my receipt, and to put the expenses on my tab
>I knit my eyebrows and address Strawberry Shortcake: We are not the same. I am a literatus, you're a mythological beast.
>I pack my books into my courier bag and exit the shoppe as her grotesque unicorns horn extends from her forehead, tears in her eyes as she returns to the sylvan beyond

Pic related except prettier, less slutty

>>1726344
I would buy that fucking book so many different times. The cover is great, just like the text would be.

also,
>>1726721
>"so it went"
you had me there

>>1726721

>>1726721
>>1726721

>>1726721

>>1726721

3rd does Brownbear better than Brownbear

bb, your threads, I love 'em.

>>1726917

oh hi Brownbear

>>1726930
>>1726930
retard

sometimes I wonder why 3rd even posts on this shithead shithole

>>1726344
Holy shit
holy shit that's p good.

BB I sent you an email brah. Brah. Brah, I sent you an email.

>>1726721
The same thing happened to me except when she knocked all my books on the floor i asked her politely to pick it up,then when she bent over i raped her in front of the whole coffee shop.After that ordeal,i spit on her face and told her feminism was dead.
>Like a boss
30 second stories are fun

>>1727032
>>1727032
thanks bro will check it now

>she giggles and tells me that's funny whilst placing her hand on my leg (wut)
She thinks you look retarded, and feels sorry for you.

>>1727032
>>1727032
mfw you haven't even emailed me

>>1727471
>>1727471
you really think so?...

>>1726274
That picture.
It pleases me.

>>1727494
>>1727494
glad you like it

.

>>1727678
>>1727678

>>1727480
Yeah, or she was trying to mug you.

This one time I was reading Twilight in my local coffee shop when this bitch walks up and plops her disgusting poon right on my table.
I'm like "Go away, bitch, I'm reading Twilight!"
She then strips her shirt off and shows me her subpar titties so I just raped her right there in front of everyone.

And that is how I got away with rape.

>she guffaw's loudly in my ear and lights up a cigarette

You are boring and illiterate. Stop posting, bore.

>>1727793
>boring
>+ 58 posts and 25 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.

lol

>>1727799

>thinks no. of posts is significant
> mfw

>>1727800
>thinks that popularity is no measure of how boring something is or isn't
>mfw

My question is simple: how can I be as pretentious as humanly possible?

Clothing, habits, diet, reading material, etc

>>1727799
by your logic, that ivy league intelligence thread is a real example of quality posting

really wish someone would ban brownbear

>>1727806

>thinks popularity determines how interesting something is
>thinks American Idol is the most interesting thing on TV
>takes refuge in the false comfort of popularity
>moron

>>1727808
no but i think the number of posts means it's popular and non boring.
read my posts you dolt.

>>1727807
You have to be extremely vain. Adam Smith describes vanity as the state of believing your own abilities and status to be in excess of what they are. So it doesn't matter what you eat, wear or read, so long as you look down your nose at all those other plebes eating, wearing or reading their inferior things.

>>1727810
>if it doesn't interest me it isn't interesting hurr durr

>>1727811

>still conflates popularity with 'interesting'
>claims to be misunderstood
>mfw

>>1727821
>doesn't think popularity is any measure of interest

>if she didn't read the Divine Comedy in it's entirety
>the Divine Comedy in it's entirety
>it's entirety
>it's

We don't write it that way because if we did, it could be confused with "it's" meaning "it is", which it obviously doesn't mean in this sentence. I recommend learning English before attempting writing.

Also, the popularity of this thread is almost only made of comments like mine telling you how bad you are and how you can't spell for shit, so I wouldn't capitalise on that fact to defend myself.

You need to read more before you write. Once things like "it's" for "its" become obvious to you and make your eyes bleed, then you'll have the required level to attempt writing. If you don't take words seriously, nobody will take you seriously either.

>>1727825

>doesn't understand the difference between "lots of people taking an interest" and "interesting"
>is forced to concede that the most interesting things in the world are therefore the most popular
>cannot think for himself

>>1727825

Twilight.

/argument

>>1727829
>We don't write it that way because if we did, it could be confused with "it's" meaning "it is", which it obviously doesn't mean in this sentence. I recommend learning English before attempting writing.
That's not the reason.

>>1727829
>cares about spelling and grammar on 4chan when the post was obviously readable anyways.
holy shit check out this aspie!

>>1727834

It is. Otherwise we'd add an apostrophe like we do for other possessive cases: Bob's, Jacob's, etc. Doing that became the rule for possessive pronouns: hers, its, his, theirs, etc.

You seem upset.

>>1727814
>brofist.jpg for Adam Smith reference

>>1727836

Discussing someone's writing on a board for literature; you're the aspie.

>>1727844
>caring about spelling and punctuation on 4chan of all places
>defends himself by using my comeback one me
dohohohohoho okay laddie

>>1727841
>You seem upset.
I think you're projecting for being called out.

Hers and his would never be her's and hi's, since they're totally different kinds of words (possessive determiners). They aren't related like you're implying to the pronouns (consider my and I)

>>1727852
holy shit you just fucking TOLD that guy

>>1727841
>implying Bob's can't be read as either "Bob his"or "Bob is" when taken out of context.
>implying you can come up with a sentence where a mistake made at its/it's can actually cause confusion.

mods filter 'brownbear' to 'a big load of poo' pls

mods filter 'prettier and less slutty' to 'i once killed a dog with my teeth'

tia

oh you guys!

Brownbear for janitor of /lit/!

>>1728244
>>1728244
that's not v nice

>pic related it's what she looked like only i once killed a dog with my teeth
doesn't have the same ring to it, also wouldn't be true unlike these stories.

>>1728332
>>1728332
thanks, i wonder if /lit/ does have a janitor yet

>>1726405
>>1726405
http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/lowry/content/parent_frameset.html

3/5 this. There's more to't than you know. I liked the blue ball feeling the author had going with the tragedy, that was relieved with the orgasmic ending, though the propheticism was seemingly bland. Lowry is better at developing critical allusion, comedy, anecdote, and exposition than an ending. Taking a lesson from Joyce, whose influence is evident, what with the temporal similarities and modernist mood, the ending should have retained the blueballism that I referred to earlier... Otherwise, Lowry should have annihilated the cathartic tension in the most post-modern, nihilistic way possible, by overcoming the new-orthodox, not with previous orthodox, what with the tragic ending, but with something like what Burgess or Bolaño did with 2666. It was not because the latter died that the ending was so abrupt, he could have very well produced the ending before his own, though better reasoning is that there is some verisimilitude in that the author does not want to kill his alter ego or it will be the death of his self. Like Wallace, Lowry was too egotistical to finish his novel in a satisfying way, and the two probably passed from this world much like Godel drove himself mad with his theorems that axiomatic arithmetic was unprovable.

jesus fucking christ.

>>1728416
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQgGUEnMZrg&t=54s

>>1728525
>>1728525
yeah i did read that with it, for most of it anyway, gonna consult it fully when i read it again.
still give it 3/5 tho

>>1728654
>>1728654
what the 'eff

>>1728416

Well, both House and brownbear are very formulaic, but they're both entertaining.

>>1727472
>>1727472

but...
but I...
I copied the email address from yer name and pasted it in some shit OH I'M SO STUPID I CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT

>>1729372
>>1729372
anonymousbear@hotmail.co.uk

try again bro
;_;

bump

>>1729646
check.
your fucking.
email.

I've been sitting on the edge of my seat biting my fingernails for hours now.

>>1726118
Love the book, but I hate you with a fiery passion.

>mfw reading your post

TRIPFAGS HAVE DESTROYED /LIT/

FUCK ALLLL OF YOU

>>1729665
nuh uh

>>1729668

>>1729671
nuh uh

i replied to your email V Dubby!

>>1729736
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>1728525
>Like Wallace, Lowry was too egotistical to finish his novel
Wut? wallace had depression and lowry battled alcoholism derp you think that illness was chosen by these authors as entertainment? why hasn't anyone else said anything about this?

>>1726118
The skull on that cover looks like a post-apocalyptic troll face.

It's a fair opinion though. While DFW did suffer from depression, I don't think it has anything to do with his story structure.

>>1729829
>>1729829
pretty good observation there broski

>>1729829

10,000 years later

you still mad

>>1729829
>>1729921
>>1729927

>>1729962
>>1729962