/lit/ - Literature

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>>4812957
It's shit.

>>4813325
why is it shit trip man

>>4812957
I liked it.
Think Great Gatsby, only good.

>>4813447
All the flowery prose in the world can't make a whining beta interesting.

>>4812957
>Op asks opinion of recently published book
>"A recent Debut"

>How the fuck is Op not the AUthor
>/lit confirmed for having 3 known published authors: Kristopher, John, and Tao
>the holy trinity

>>4814726
I'm not Kristopher

>>4814726
>>/lit confirmed for having 3 known published authors: Kristopher, John, and Tao
+Laurie Penny.

>>4815321
>+Laurie Penny.
Sorry?

>>4815321
Who?

>inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe

Wow /lit/ finally wrote a novel

I don't read anything written less than 50 years old, so no. I'm sure it's wonderfully shit, though.

>>4815333
You're in for a treat when you get old.

>>4815339
That's what she said

what makes this different than the hundreds of other, more classic writers like bukowski and henry miller that wrote the same thing?

>>4815349
>Bukowski
>Miller
>writing things like this: "Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever be stolen away, just as it cannot ever have belonged to me and only me.”

This is just another sad artistic loser meets quirky MPDG backed by a Cat Stevens soundtrack.

It's the lame daydream of a creepy manchild who is the type of person who makes mixed-CDs for a girl and peeks through her window to watch her listening to it.

Lonely romantic guys aren't misunderstood or in any way superior to their more well-adjusted counterparts. They are dangerous weirdos who should commit the sudoku they are always considering.

>>4815358
lold

>>4815369
Bare in mind that I only know this because I, too, am a sad artistic loser who is prone to that sort of autistic behaviour

>“She’s just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don’t know what goes on in our heads. You don’t know where we come from or who we are . . . Can you even tell the difference anymore between what you’ve written about her and who she really, truly is?”

It must be pretty depressing for this guy, who is like 36, to realize that DFW explored that same theme at the age of 22 in far more sophisticated terms.

I'd hate to be a YA writer in my 30s, I'd an hero 4sure

OP, if you're Kristopher, tell me why you picked the name Julian McGann? I ask only because I've been working on a book for several years with a character called Julian McCloud and I don't know how to feel about it.

>>4815394
This is what happens when people don't read the classics, and just popular contemporary literature. They end up intellectually fumbling around with things they should have resolved emotionally and intellectually in their twenties because they've only read people in their twenties and early thirties, and usually no philosophy but the watered down stuff in book reviews or the 101 ethics shit they got in their BA.

>>4815372
i wouldn't have lold if i couldn't relate :)

>>4815416
good to know there are others out there

remember, we're gonna make it brah

>>4812957
kristopher pls go

>>4815408
I agree. What I hate is the type of person who has obviously read a shitload of pretty 'highbrow' literature but still talks and laughs like a pleb.

I think childhood trauma is a prerequisite for patricianhood

>>4815427
>childhood trauma is a prerequisite for patricianhood
probably

>>4815427
Fantastic, because I have childhood trauma by the fucking truckload.

>>4815435
Well done your fedora and start writing that classic you've been putting off all these months

>>4815439
>Well done your fedora

>>4815439
But I don't own a fedora. I'm not a neckbeard. I'm a relatively normal University student.