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3703304 No.3703304 [Reply] [Original]

Can Lit like books that aren't rectum piercingly deep?

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>> No.3703307

We can like them, we just can't admit it. The ghosts of Borges, Dostoevsky and Kafka might be listening.

>> No.3703320

water for elephants is a piece of shit

it's painfully obvious it was a nanowrimo project.

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>>3703320

you're a nanowrimo project

>> No.3703415

>>3703304
Only if they're too obscure to be known by anybody else in the anon's social network.

>> No.3703443

>>3703346
anon please stop, that isn't very nice

>> No.3703445

Yeah, when I feel like reading something light I'll read fantasy. Thinking about starting those King of Throne books soon.

>> No.3703454

>>3703445
They're rather good. I promise.

>> No.3703458

i mean it was a pretty quick and enjoyable read, nothing really like special
there's nothing wrong with light reading for entertainment

>> No.3703482

Well, I have to read a lot of tedious, dry stuff for university, so to even that out, I started reading the Kyle Swanson sniper novels by Jack Coughlin

>dat high school-grade English
>muh patriotism, muh heroism, muh Corps
>dat predictable story
>kill brown people all day erry day
I love it.

>> No.3703493

>>3703454
They're mediocre, don't be a moron.

>> No.3704622

I just read Ovid's "The Art of Love," and am in the process of reading The Teleportation Incident by Ned Baum.

>> No.3704657

I no longer read deep lit. Ever. I just go for lightish books that are entertaining.