/lit/ - Literature

>>18264284
>>When Midnight Comes Around
My diary desu

It's a romance novel about a prostitute with a borderline psychopathic pimp who winds up falling in love with a client who is secretly gay. She then has to balance her own feelings which will never be satisfied with her desire to do what is best for him. Eventually, she helps her gay crush find the love of his life, all while still working for the same abusive pimp.

And the People Bowed and Prayed

>>18264340
It's a 4-part political thriller about a fanatic cultist attempting to perform a coup in the United States. His coup backfires and a second civil war begins. Although he fails in his attempt to conquer the US, he manages to break the Union's back, and is able to claim a large portion of the Bible Belt for himself, while other politicians and warlords take over the rest. It inspired many spinoffs of stories of other eccentric politicians, and the foot-soldiers who had to do the dirty work.

Keep this thread alive until tomorrow. I like this one

>>18264284
The Serpent's Daughter

>The Small Hands of the Rain

>>18264380
Taken, but he's an ex-north korean assassin known as "The Serpent"

The Black Thorn Heart

>>18264284

>>18264385
It's a story book for children about a child who has fun playing in the rain, but gets lost and uses safe strategies to get home safely. It teaches kids to know who their trusted adults are, to know the layout of their neighborhood, and to stick where mommy and daddy can see you

>>18264397
>The Black Thorn Heart
A story about an Indian man who, bitter over the colonization of India, joins the IRA and becomes involved in the Troubles.

The Vulture and the Snake
>>18264340
It's a Western ambiented in some old town of the US's far-west. The old Father Moon, priest of the local Church, makes a tragic prophecy about the destruction of the town.

>>18264413
I was gonna make a greentext, but then I realized I don't know how to depict an Indian accent over text. I can't think of anything they mispronounce like "w=v" or "l=r" in the case of German and Chinese respectively

>The Tragedies of Family
>>18264284
Sherlock-type
>>18264340
Post-modernist apocalypse book where the protagonist is a cult leader who slowly goes insane keeping up the act, in the end being brainwashed into worshipping a new leader who looks and acts exactly like him. The great twist is that, at the end of the novel, it is the exact same scene from the beginning, but now from his perspective as a worshipper.
>>18264380
YA Trash
>>18264385
Poetry collection about nature and grief

>A Tale Forever Untold

A piano plays in an empty room
>>18264437
Victorian play, highly comedic, about an aristocratic family man who has to deal with his incompetent sons, extravagant and luxurious wife, and daughter, who ran away with one of the servants.

The bald spot

>>18264284
Maßlose Gedichte und Aufsätze. L.O. Seyn. Suhrkamp Gesammelte Werke Band XII. 2066

>On Feed and Seed
>>18264461
Absurdist play about a man who wakes up with a giant bald spot on the left side of his head for no reason, which he tries to hide at all cost, even at the expense of his own job, house and family.

10000 Wartime Sweethearts and 9999 Honourable Deaths

>Chekhov’s Mistress

Jeff's Laughter

Winter Spares not the Old

Niggerman - Whiteman

The Darkness Underwater

My Kind of Hell

>>18264497
A tale of Lovecraft’s friend and cat breeder Joseph Whiteman. It is the true story of Lovecraft and life with his cat

>>18264284
Black people

>>18264473
A prominent play-wright is shot to death with a blank pistol on the set of his next big production. A pulpy mystery begins to take shape surrounding the circumstances of his mysterious murder and the insidious love triangle he cultivated with his wife and the female lead. Film by Halfred Itchcock.

>In Defense of Raskolnikov

>>18264531
Also the twist is that the wife and female lead are lesbian lovers who staged the playwright's death.

The Prince who Became Princess

>>18264544
Also the entire time you think it's the female lead's jealous boyfriend, but you come to find out she doesn't have a boyfriend and it was just her in a costume to try and throw the detectives off her trail.

The Prince Who Became Queen

>>18264571
And then you find out that it all takes place in a detective’s head

>>18264585
Man I didn't even get that far yet!

>>18264585
the rest of it is an absurdist comedy where the detective tries to make the dream a reality

Several Degrees of Chaos

>>18264660
Warhammer novel.

>>18264454
You read my mind

>>18264340
Botanist discovers that trees regulate human behavior through phytochemicals which can inspire various mental states including contemplative religious rapture.

>>18264487
"the sound and the fury" a la "simple jack"

>>18264441
empty book

>>18264284
The King's Left Hand

>>18264537
Crime and Punishment from the perspective of the painter who confesses for the crime

>>18264284
Agarthan Keep

The Ascension

>Her Heart bleeds Blue

>>18264284
The Phenomenology of Cum Socks

>>18265039
The autobiography of a cumrag mushroom.
picrel

>>18265007
This is just a transcript of the plot of Kong vs Zilla

>>18265012
: A Guide to Advancement in the Elevator Repair Profession

>>18265037
Some bullshit book about the american upper class doing the bullshit they usually do.

I See Clearly Now Brief Glimpses of Beauty
>>18264472
postmodern satirical dystopian novel contrasting the romanticized heroism of WWII with the Vietnam anti-war movement

>>18265076
>I See Clearly Now Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Alternative title for No Longer Human.

>>18264441
Stream of consciousness about a vaguely mentally ill man (maybe on the spectrum, maybe schizophrenic, somewhere in between) who has lived through trauma and a hard life, doing his best to make ends meet and keep his dreams alive and hope burning

>>18264454
It's about a pianist making low income playing in in grimy, dirty, barely attended bars and jazz lounges

Caligula's Seed

>>18264496
PTSD riddled ex-POW soldier living out his last days in a cabin in a Canadian forest, alone. His friends have died. His family has been lost, too distracted by their own lives and/or impatient with their troubled father. His boring day to day life is shown side by side with scenes of war and the POW camp, alternating between them

The Bowels

>>18265185
A story from the POV of Ahab after he gets swallowed by the whale

>>18264523
Gordon Ramsey’s meditations as host of a popular TV show.

>The Cripple

>>18265039
Satire about insemination à la Swift but for dissemination across imageboards
>>18265037
Noir novel but with somewhat highbrow literary inclinations.
>>18265168
I, Claudius and Naked Lunch, so a real vulgar surrealism from the POV of a catamite.

The Dog’s Bones

>>18264284
Classic, Pam

>>18264284
finally someone else made this thread
>>18264576
the sole offspring of the matriarchal kingdom's ruler was male. he tries to exploit the loophole of the sacred law, that the highest monarch is the Queen, but never once states the queen must be a woman.

>>18265076

An American WW2 vet suffers from PTSD returns to the states; he is a war hero for destroying an entire tunnel complex with his flamethrower- he remembers faces of the Japanese he was burning alive. But there is something else aswell that pesters his fragile mind- he can’t tell.

He attempts to reintegrate into normal civillian life as an office worker, but he suffers from complete disinterest in everything.

At his widely televised medal ceremony, looking at the rows of soldiers in the seating infront of him, he has a complete mental breakdown and falls into a coma.

During the coma he remembers: At a occupied japanese village, witnessing a squad of fellow troops r*ping women, he sets them alight with his flamethrower and the whole village burns down- killing dozens of locals and US troops alike.

All of the screaming faces, of the people writhing in pain meshed together. But no longer. He remembers vividly now, each face, the feeling, the sound.

After awakening at the hospital in the middle of the night, he sneaks out to seek the one thing that still gives him life.

He breaks into a nearby armory, and puts the fueltank on his back one final time.

As for my book title,
“For I Have Tasted The Fruit”

>>18264470
good one
>>18265194
based


Crossed poles

Mahogany sawdust

They who talk in circles

>>18265178
this is kino. would read

>The Cripple
a woman with Munchausen syndrom is the sole intact survivor of the housefire. she lays in the hospital, assuring the nurses she's sick and damaged, seething at the burn victims that used to be her healthy, attention-giving neighbours, the bad luck drives her insane.

>>18264284
The angels of David


>>18264934
A king secretly funding his left wing opposition. So he can turn them into controlled opposition. Through keeping those wiling to deal and disappearing those who don't. >>18265037
A book about a female cop with something to prove
>>18265185
Gay novel with multiple narrators about London's underground(subway) bathroom scene

>>18265231
A female professional, despite maintaining a successful career, has a crisis after realising how hollow her achievements and social connections are. The novel follows her ultimately unsuccessful search for meaning.

>>18264284
>Sleepersville
>The Scope of Calamity
>Fading Signals
>The Elevation of Madsen Carioux

>>18265037
Farcical biography of Susan Sontag

>>18264340
Commentary on the current mentality of the world, where any and every crazy thing will find its followers due to ease of communication and degenerated morals.
Gradually becomes more and more cryptic and schizophrenic towards the end.

>>18264472
Chinese cultivator trash

To Wax Lyrical

Project Gyigas

>>18265341
Huh pretty good.

>>18265395
18th century Chinese novel about a bunch of pseudo-intellectual poets conning their way into the upper echelons of academia.

Near the Fire

The Sacred Disease

>>18265503
A destitute couple abuse their child by faking stigmata to con their rural, religious community.

>>18265503
One rogue seminarist in rome discovers that Jesus was the first to have a certain deadly std and his teachings ultimately had the purpose of spreading it, which He considered his holy duty. Interspersed with episodes from Jesus' pov.

>The Mangled Language
>Oval
>Verily and Rightly So
>Call On The Horseman
>Every Man to His Martyr
>Kill the Reader!

>>18265364
>Sleepersville
A group of British researchers visit an American town inhabited by a group of what seem to be corpses (due to their unhealthy appearance) that only wake up between the hours of 6am-9pm.
>The Scope of Calamity
A non-fiction piece on various natural disasters across history focusing mainly on the societal/cultural impact they have caused to the effected cities/civilizations.
>Fading Signals
A generic sci-fi YA novel or something about radio transmission, idk.
>The Elevation of Madsen Carioux
A (seemingly) feel-good novel about a down-on-his-luck loser who wanted to kill himself, but eventually a wise old philanthropist shows him what makes life worth living. However, the old man dies, and Madsen is heart-broken (and beyond repair). The "elevation" of the title refers to the literal heights which Madsen will eventually fall from.

>>18265517
>>Oval
A /tv/ janitor ponders a life wasted in service of Moot.

>>18264284
To Touch the Jewels of Indra's Net

>>18264284
A Familiar New World

Recreation Blues

Faro Farosi: A life well lived

>>18265734
Arab rip off of Zorba

How to Be The F@#$ing Boss

>>18265734
Futuristic “trad” ruminations from a native of Faroe

>>18264284
Neo-Luddite Realism.

>>18264531
>>18264544
>>18264571
>>18264585
would read

Afternoon poets

>>18264340
An American soldier deployed in Iraq leaves the army and discovers a Sufi community. He ends up becoming a mystic.

Sinner in Heaven

>Plugo
>Poptimism II: Contemporary Situation
>Every Finger is a Flower
>Dogs Bark Different in English
>>18265754
Self-help book that tries to be relatable to zoomer by using references to twitch, memes, and other pop culture. It's obviously trash but will become popular.
>>18266287
Early 20s friends that hang out in the afternoon to talk about literature as a facade against their mundane lives, which they never admit to, preferring to enjoy pretending to be a highbrow individual.
>>18265572
The ruminations of a man after becoming a grandfather and pondering about the passing of time.
>>18265517
>The Mangled Language
First person narrative of a mute man. Stream of consciousness that revolts around his self-hatred and anger about his inability to properly communicate with people.
>>18265228
A short story about someone digging the grave for his dog a day before he is euthanized.

>>18264472
Romance novel about a soldier who rejects his duties to be with his lover, however due to his cowardice, his love rejects him

>>18265514
holy fucking based
if dubs you write a story


>>18267040
a clerk who made subtle fradulent changes to his paperwork ends up in heaven. he learns his minor corrections had effectively prevented the new great depression.

>>18265701
an anthology of poems and stories written by the first terraformers on a remote melancholy planet. the toiling of reacreation is opposed to the battle of earthly men against the naturally present.

>Dream Forsaken

bumpe

>>18264284
>When Midnight Comes Around
A novel set in the "last days" of this civilization. Apocalyptic themes, dystopia, religious persecution, high technology, the fanaticism of a New Age religion, unimpressive attempts at colonizing space.
In short, Revelation-flavored Cyberpunk

>>18265407
A schizo non-fiction book about Earthbound, printed by the author himself.

>>18265517
>>Verily and Rightly So
A contemporary take on Shakespearean comedy, centering around a Quixote-esque character who's prone to rambling and windy, overdrawn parables.
>>Call On The Horseman
A story vacillating between a young man in the early 1940s discovering his grandfather's old journals from his days as a rough rider and occasional ne'erdowell in the late 19th century. Viewpoint switches between the grandfather in the past and the grandsons analogous struggles in the present
>>Every Man to His Martyr
A collecting of despondent and nihilistic poetry which upon subsequent readings is discovered to be the bright, shiny kind of nihilism and not the gloomy kind.
>>Kill the Reader!
My diary desu

>>18264531
Baaased

>>18264284
The day will never come.

Swallow It Whole

>>18265701
an illustrated children's book depicting two souls. one soul assumes the roles of animals and insects over hundreds of years, and the second is a single tree. the first soul is always coming back to the second in each life.

Venetian mint

>>18267795
An art historian who tries to drive tourists away from Venice by acts of terrorism so he can enjoy it better for himself.

>>18267656
a pseudo scientific medical expose about the dangers of paracetamol/asprin/ibuprofen, the book is picked up by Oprah and starts a culture wide rejection of the drugs in a similar fashion to the current diet fad of demonizing sugar.

>>18267656
Your diary desu

>>18267820
God no, please don't give her ideas. Leave the decent painkillers alone!

>>18267810
I would read this

>>18267827
just cut it out of your diet anon, we never evolved to use these drugs. I stopped and I feel great, like I have way more energy and less foggy. My elderly mother did the same and it helped her arthritis.

The Seoul Solution

>>18267883
I very rarely use them, but every now and then a painkiller for moderate pain that doesn't get you addicted is useful.

>>18264284
... And Christ Grimaced

Fate's End

>>18267948
The spiritual successor to Monty pythons "the meaning of life", a kickstarter graphic novel.

>>18265329
>A king secretly funding his left wing opposition. So he can turn them into controlled opposition. Through keeping those wiling to deal and disappearing those who don't.
Kino

>>18265502
A collection of short stories told by some friends around a campfire.

The Gumption Trap

>>18267981
Twilight, except the main character is male and the love interest is a sexy alien.

Tobit’s folly and Masonic vespers

>>18264284
Springtime for Hitler

>>18264359
too cliche, the EMPEROR should have succeeded

>>18264284
Call of the Crocodile

Plumbing Incidents of the 20th Century

>>18268268
Don't be stupid be a smarty, come and join the nazi party.

>>18267948
due to the contextual differences between the world contemporary to Chirst and our modern day, the same sins - perhaps even more exuberant - don't bear equally grave connotations anymore.
if one used to overeat back then, it meant someone else would starve. if one overeats today, well, he got tricked by the food megacorps. fewer are dying from hunger than from obesity.
licence used to mean some slaves get exploited to please the master's eye - now it's onky the viewer who gets milked.
all sins took such a backward dizzy turn, a tangled sequence of tempters and victims, intervined in a multitude of layers so great that Christ, upon his second coming, can't help but make a face.

>>18268920
>licence
woe phoneposting me
meant licentiousness

Sayonara Ridge

The grand cruiser in the skies

Bitter Pickles

Fart Lizard

>Have Sex, Incel

>>18264284
A priest who sees spectres in the cemetery
>Dishful Thinking

>>18264380
Malia Obama Biography
>A Gentlemen's Weapon

>>18270006
Niggers, stop commenting new ones and answer to old ones that haven't received any comments.

>>18268920
This is great, anon. You should right on this very thing.

>>18267656
A speculative realist novel set in a hypercapitalist dystopia in Vietnam in the near future. White expat man leaves the west for better job prospects in hyperasia, works for a business journal writing about bug crypto and spends his weekends fucking former third worlder now first worlder viet bitcoin heiresses who use him as a colonial lapdog and trophy boyfriend. Descent into madness an ulimately ironic kurtz-esque nightmare sequence. Think Fanged Noumena x Houellebecq x apocalypse now

My Diary, Desu

Of on a summer's day a faggot

If on a summer's day a faggot

>>18271321
A neurodiverse young man is paralyzed by not having any real direction. He seeks to escape the hell of his own making by deliberately not getting over a girl who he has had no real contact with for years. His spiral is quiet, unheroic and steady. He botches his suicide after which he is placed in a mental institution. The last entry mentions the girl before collapsing into a tragic cesspool of babble. The entry ends with the schizoid passage "She shone like the sun, but it was night. There is night suns in the northpole. I got sunburns and frostbite."

>>18264284
The Devils Greatest Trick

>>18271934
GPT-3 AI generated based on your title.

The Devils Greatest Trick

Synopsis: In Nebraska, in the bottom of a deep dry well, is a metal box with nine red balls. They each weigh five pounds and are exactly three feet from one another. The ceiling of the well is twenty-five feet above, reaching up to the very sky. There is no escape for the souls within; but there might be an escape for those outside.

There’s something strange about Corby Fletcher that only emerges when he’s immersed in mathematics or writing equations on whiteboards for hours at a time. Then it becomes obvious: he’s a genius. Perhaps he’s not the only one, though.

It seems that people who come to be with Corby are somehow compelled by him to invite others into their circle. The strange thing is that this invitation doesn’t come out of the blue or without reason; they are invited in some kind of way, by an invisible hand or a voice — just like Corby himself — and then they decide whether to take the step. Corby believes that he has a gift that only a few people in the world possess, and his obsession with coming up with the right equations to describe the world around him is what fuels this power.

The Number Nine

In an earlier time, the number nine was often viewed as either evil or sacred. It was the astrological symbol for air and chaos, and referred to the way humans operate. Nine was also the number of fingers on a hand, as well as of rivers that flowed in straight paths. It was thought to be the perfect balance between "below" (nine planets) and "above" (the Sun) and the most natural number for them all.

Will Corby be able to keep the world from ending by dispelling nine?

"Eleven new writers delivered an edition that rocked with its creativity and innovation. The Devils Greatest Trick is a perfect example of what can be achieved when you have a group of writers who all think differently and work together, as they did during the writing of this book. It is a work of art that breathes originality, creativity and originality. The Devil’s Greatest Trick is a must read for the fans of the genre."―Marianne Andronache, Book Reviewer

"[The Devil's Greatest Trick] provides another example of the rising number of really creative writers putting out books that are simply terrific. There are a lot of really interesting people who write this stuff, and they're not being treated nearly as well as they should by the big publishing companies who basically cranked out the same book over and over. This is a really unique book, and I'm delighted to be part of it." — Charlaine Harris, Author

"The Devil's Greatest Trick contains some of the most extraordinary short fiction I have ever read...

>>18272136
how long before gpt-3 like algorithms can write things well? If we train one on specific authors are they any better than gp trained ones? The sooner we can do away with authors and all their bullshit the better, more so for journalists.

Progeny!

>>18268059
A story set in 1920s America about a rural man creating an invention with the intent to sell it on the consumer market, only to be hounded and abused by the corporate culture of Wall St.

Daddy's CUMMIES

>>18269722
The Rick and Morty suicide letter that made Adult Swim consider canceling the show and the brave argument to publish another season

>>18268518
thriller about the plumbing industry in 1970s Los Angeles

Adammu and Horan in The Machine

>>18268518
It's actually a Romantic Comedy starting a buff black male plumber who's buff abs are on the cover. The protagonist is a wealthy white woman who remembers him laying the pipe back before the internet started. The book is sold in grocery stores.

The Man with the Birdhouses

Formerly Chuck's

Mom's Spaghetti

>>18273304
a man named Sneed works his Seed and Feed while reminiscing about his late friend Chuck

>>18273304
A man escapes his office job in a big city to run a diner on the seafront of a small fishing town. The diner was named Chuck's before he bought it. Over time he finds out that this life isn't any better after the honeymoon period.

Savage Etiquette

>The Darkening of the Light

>The Big Surprise
About a woman who grows a dick.

>>18273443
a post-apocalyptic novel in which the tribes that inhabit the ruins of america religiously follow the rules of 2020s political correctness despite also being infant-raping cannibals

The girl who fell from the sky