/lit/ - Literature

>>19289024
I would have sex with her if she were willing

>>19289024
Because the largest demographic of people who still read are exactly the type of people in her books: upper middle class, college educated, liberal, city-dwellers, who read the LRB.

>>19289037
This. She writes about dull people and there are plenty of people in the world who look at her boring, I aspiring characters and think to themselves “wow, they’re just like me!”

>What made her books so successful from the very first print?

being shilled by journos because her family knows people, why do you dorks always ask the same questions. smash that early life section (she's not jewish though).

>>19289024
people are desperate for a literary millennial author that will attempt to define our generation that's why. I am halfway through Normal People and I am confident that it is not her.

Roasties buy books.
nuff said

>>19289037
>>19289053
Pretty easy cop out to just fall back to ''haha she writes dumb books for dumb people''
A lot of people write books of similar nature without them being bestsellers.

Is that paul maccartney?

>>19289024
I know she’s Irish not Scottish but every time I see her I think of this image and giggle.

>>19289027
Yeah me too

imitating her success would defeat the point of wanting to create art

>>19289024
I haven't read her but it would seem to me your question is redundant since most of /lit/ would simply write her success off as "she's a woman" and wouldn't motivate any further inquiry. If your actual question is what the reason for her success is, well, why didn't you just ask that instead of clouding it with this question about the motivations of this loosely philosophy and literature themed pissing-contest board?

>>19289024
She sits perfectly in the middle of the Venn diagram that makes one eligible:
1) not pretty enough to intimidate the MFA girls who decide these sorts of things
2) good enough to be plausibly deniable but not good enough to challenge anyone's superiority complex
3) writes on the topics that boring housewives and lawyer's daughters like, ie: tedious feminine introspection, middle class social values
4) has a veneer of social conscience

>>19289024
Is this chick a big deal or are two guys on /lit/ constantly making threads about her? Has she sold ten million copies and I'm out of the loop? I don't know who tf this is

>>19289376
>If your actual question is what the reason for her success is, well, why didn't you just ask that instead of...
confusion.jpg
Didn't I literally just ask exactly that?

Shills pushing flavor-of-the-month hacks is getting rather tiresome

>>19289385
Good question, wikipedia articles don't have any actual numbers, but she seems to sell a decent number of books and there are a couple of tv adaptations of her works. There are also some various awards, but I don't consider any literary award to be of merit.

>>19289407
No you obscured it by asking why aren't aspirant writers on /lit/ who should be motivated towards understanding what causes success seem to not want to - SEE, THIS IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM!

>>19289024
if it's shit why should i care?, why should /lit/ care.
>it's shit

>>19289024
>What made her books so successful from the very first print?
Because she's in the club and you're not.
>Rooney was born in Castlebar, County Mayo,[4] in 1991, and grew up there.[5] Her father, Kieran Rooney, worked for Telecom Éireann and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre.[5][6][7] Rooney has an older brother and a younger sister.[5] Rooney studied English at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where she was elected a scholar in 2011.[8] She started (but did not complete) a master's degree in politics there, completing a degree in American literature instead, and graduated with an MA in 2013.[9] Rooney has described herself as a Marxist.[10]

>>19289024
Verbindungen

>>19289024
>google it because no idea who this cunt is and op is a fucking faggot
>"sally rooney"
>see this bitch is the same age as me
>audibly burst out laughing
i thought this bitch was 45 holy fuck she's supposed to be 30.

never read any of her shit and never will
>She has published three novels: Conversations with Friends (2017), Normal People (2018), and Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021). Normal People was adapted into a 2020 television series by Hulu and the BBC. Rooney's work has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success, and she is regarded as one of the foremost millennial writers

she's a member of the tribe, just look at that nose. just more nepotism. i want to drunk fight this ugly bitch in a bar and beat her ass. matzah ball looking rat-teethed oven dodger.
>er father, Kieran Rooney, worked for Telecom Éireann and her mother, Marie Farrell, ran an arts centre
there you go, her mommy and daddy got her in. there's all you need to know. it's just corruption and nepotism.
>rooney has described herself as a Marxist.
a commie jew, what a surprise!!! there's what you need to get published in current year+6: a mommy and daddy with connections, a yarmulke, and to be a far left lunatic.

hold my beer, i'm getting published out of pure spite and going to beat her ass at everything. 10 years from now no one will remember this bitch name. fuck this cunt.

>>19289588
>>google it because no idea who this cunt is and op is a fucking faggot
>>"sally rooney"
>>see this bitch is the same age as me
>>audibly burst out laughing
>i thought this bitch was 45 holy fuck she's supposed to be 30.
You’re the same age as her and posting like this on 4chan while she just lives her successful life unaware of your bitter rage. You must recognize yourself as less than her, in fact you are less than the vast majority of society.

>>19289588
>the tribe

>>19289588
>she's a member of the tribe, just look at that nose. just more nepotism. i want to drunk fight this ugly bitch in a bar and beat her ass. matzah ball looking rat-teethed oven dodger.
kek she's Irish and she said fuck Israel. her latest book won't be published in Hebrew.

>>19289588
>hold my beer, i'm getting published out of pure spite and going to beat her ass at everything. 10 years from now no one will remember this bitch name. fuck this cunt.
best satire of a typical middle aged loser that uses 4chan ive seen in awhile. oh, not a satire? weird

>>19289024
she speaks to a lot of readers who are young discontent liberal white women.

>>19289652
>>19289625
>>19289622
>>19289606
>rushing to white knight a nepotistic shrew that ratted its way into an easy life on daddy's back
pathetic.

>>19289688
post book

>>19289588
man this must be what it looks like to other people when i drunkpost, absolutely foul stuff. calm down buddy.

>>19289606
>sucexs seuccs sucsex succes suckses suxex suxcccesss cuckses sucksex cumsex success sacksess sacjinses suces

>>19289688
dude youre in your thirties

I’m three years away from turning 30 and it keeps me up at night.

>>19289625
>she said fuck Israel. her latest book won't be published in Hebrew.
This means almost nothing in today's world. Virtue-signalling by 'standing up for Palestinians' is perfectly acceptable controlled opposition and doesn't harm the parasite much. I'm not saying she's a jew. She's not. Just an average Irish rose desu. But she's also not in any way based which I'm guessing you might believe a bit. If homely Sally called out the fact that kikes by and large control all media in the western world and use it to spread degeneracy, anti-white propaganda, and general subversion, then maybe I would read here pathetic woman-child diary.
Also yeah I'm 30 too. So what, nigger. You're a zoomer and most of your cohort can barely form a sentence without falling into an ADD spasm from lack of screen time.

>>19289625
>she said fuck Israel. her latest book won't be published in Hebrew.
This means almost nothing in today's world. Virtue-signalling by 'standing up for Palestinians' is perfectly acceptable controlled opposition and doesn't harm the parasite much. I'm not saying she's a jew. She's not. Just an average Irish rose desu. But she's also not in any way based which I'm guessing you might believe a bit. If homely Sally called out the fact that kikes by and large control all media in the western world and use it to spread degeneracy, anti-white propaganda, and general subversion, then maybe I would read her pathetic woman-child diary.

>>19289747
im sorry

>>19289588
>and to be a far left lunatic.
>Be me
>unironically reading Marx so I can be ahead of the curve when the now inevitable communist coup of America occurs
If this ends up leading to me getting published, even better

>>19289588

Is there any alt lit by feminists or just /normalwomen/ that is edgy and nihilist?

>>19289588

>>19290166
gender accelerationists?

It's called getting on your knees for people in high places. You should know we're in a dick sucking matrix. No one at the top hasn't sucked illuminati cock.

>>19289377
>tedious feminine introspection
>middle class social values

Any other recommendations for someone looking to write a Rooney parody?

idk but i liked the tv show, don't see myself reading the book though

>>19289588
Dangerously based
>>19289606
>You're just jealousl!!
Kindly neck yourself my man

>>19289606
>less than
lol

>>19289688
cope

>>19289024
Because she was shilled

>>19289588
>30 years old
>proud to still be on 4chan
>posting shit like this

Shouldn't you be married with kids by now? Sincerely hope this is bait. If not get help brother.

>>19292047
you stupid, boy?

>>19291604
Lol. No more like novels from the new radfem but normie girls on twitter.

>>19292429
zoom zooms fuck off, 4chan doesn’t need new people, you get your own shit

>>19289588
A literal subhuman

>>19292429
You’re 28 years old. Pepe is over 30, you know?

>>19289074
>haha she writes dumb books for dumb people
He didn't say they were dumb. Also I think, similar to the music industry, a large aspect of fame is connections and hype. That's not to say that she has no talent, just that there are probably better authors who will never be as popular as her.

What is she like as a person? I've never watched her interviews. Is she a proper man hating Marxist nut or is she more self-aware than that?

She's peak capitalist realism

>>19290166
Come on bros help.

>>19289024
>bognog with a busted face

>>19292983
Care to expand on that?

>>19289024
THAT'S how Irish women look at 30?

Jesus christ

>>19289024
Twilight for grown women

>>19295137
Is that fair though, surely if she was hotter she wouldn't become an author? Not sure if she's a representative sample

>>19295137
Have you noticed how they always have that same hair? What hivemind is telling every woman whose looks have started to fade to get the same unflattering haircut?

>>19289588
Digits blessed this absolute chad post. Newfags seething at real channer.

>>19295663
>What hivemind is telling every woman whose looks have started to fade to get the same unflattering haircut?
Total stab in the dark, but I think it's post-post-breakup hair.
Girl gets broken up with, so she decides to 'reinvent' herself with a modern sleek modern bob, if not a pixie haircut.
That's the "post-breakup" hair.
Then time goes on and it grows out.

Fuck off shallow tards. She doesn’t have to look like anything for you

>in a board brimming with aspiring writers

>>19296207
she looks like she stinks

>>19289092

>>19296539
in all the right places

>>19289024
She appeals to the cathedral. Plain and simple.

>>19289588
Cringy fuck.

>>19289024
Cool Jack 'O Lantern, OP, how long did it take you?

>>19296199
roonroon is happily married though. incellectuals lose again

>>19289024
Because she has connections. Social networking is literally the most important factor of success.

>>19289606
Calm down, Sally.

>>19289588
Bit tasteless

>>19289606
>dude she's rich and famous, that means she's happy and you're not
sasuga iphonefag

>>19297344
>roonroon is happily married though
that's a bit bourgeois is it not

I started normal people yesterday it's well written, she seems intelligent and sensitive. maybe that's the reason?

>>19297344
Nice bullshit-assumptions there, she could have still started off with a french bob and found a man. It's still a post-post-breakup haircut. What the fuck is your point? I was answering the other anon's question about her hair, why did you insist on projecting your own feelings of romantic inadequacy into it?
You know what, don't answer that - I don't care about her romantic life - I'm talking about her hair. and don't reply if you're not going to.

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>>19289024
She has pretty good sales but not 50 Shades or Twilight level
If you just want money you should write like one of them

Or a popular male hack like Steven King or James Patterson

What's my opinion on Donna Tart?

>>19297288
Yeah, and carving a Jack O'Lantern from a potato is a unique--and frankly refreshing--approach.

>>19297859
I got bored with The Secret History

>>19297859
bigger hack than rooney desu

>>19289747
Second puberty is a bitch