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The winner of the lottery gets stoned to death. Stupid and pointless short story. This retarded shit made her famous.

>> No.20767802

>>20767774
KYS

>> No.20767815

>>20767774
>he entirely missed the point
Average /lit/ poster in 2022, folks. Hill House was also the novel that made her famous

>> No.20767861

>>20767815
I didn't miss the point, I said pointless but obviously I realize the story is a commentary on communities stubbornly refusing to move on from traditions even if they lost sight of why they still follow them. But it's such a shallow contrivance that to me it's pointless. I'm literally too smart to find it meaningful.
I mean how heavy-handed can you be? You don't actually think this is some deep shit do you?

>> No.20767879

>>20767861
>deep shit
It doesn't need to be. It's a very short story. It's well written and provides a decent amount of commentary in a short space, which is why it's a good introduction to short stories in school. Not everything needs to be super profound to have an impact on the reader

>> No.20767894

>>20767879
>It's well written
She's a professional writer, why wouldn't it be?
>provides a decent amount of commentary
The commentary this story provides is, like I said, heavy-handed, but that's understating it. It's like using an atom bomb to drive a nail. Utterly fatuous.
>good introduction to short stories in school
Yeah no shit only children could feel any sort of impact from this bargain basement trash. I can hardly believe people wrote angry letters demanding it be explained to them. God people are stupid.
If you think this is good then you're an extraordinary midwit.

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20767905

>>20767894
You sound like a pseud, anon

>> No.20767920

>>20767905
You sound like a fucking retard

>> No.20767938

>>20767774
Patient zero of "folk horror" that Stephen King, Peter Straub etc are still ripping off endlessly to this day

>> No.20768281

>>20767894
What do you want from reading anon? It's a very simple short story you yourself describe as well-written. You think it's too reliant on an explicit moral, and it's driving it home too much? Maybe you shouldn't read didactic little short stories. Did you also not like Animal Farm because the comparison to the Soviet Union was too obvious? Maybe you don't like film because its too visual? Fantasy because it insists too much on a world that doesn't exist?

>I'm literally too smart to find it meaningful
sage

>> No.20768498

>>20767774
The absolute sad state of /lit/. Fucking hell.

>> No.20768501

>>20767774
It's fucking good. I wish I had written it.

>> No.20768507

>>20767938
Stephen King did.that shit better. The Long Walk ruthlessly mogs that femoids entire catalog.

>> No.20768511

>>20768507
If you have shit taste, sure.

>> No.20768523

>>20768511
lol keep seething femoid

>> No.20768525

>>20768523
>you're le woman!
nice deflection

>> No.20768546

>>20768525
You must be a foid since even the most flamboyant profligate queers would never put her over that coke head stephen king. Touch dick femcel.

>> No.20769518

>>20767802
Are you her son? Trying to figure out why this would make someone mad. God forbid I discuss literature on /lit/.

>> No.20769560

>>20767774
Yeah, wow. Not much of a prize when you put it like that.