/lit/ - Literature

>>6350946
well how else am I going to enjoy my smut

>>6350957
Protip: this is a thinly veiled ''into the garbage it goes'' thread

pls contribute

>characters are stereotypes of single personality traits

>The first sentence rambles on for over half a page

>>6350946
>the author is a Canadian hipster with a fugly bandana and not discernible talent.

>>6351157
literally no one fits this description

>all the main characters suffer from the same typical sort of Freudian childhood trauma

>foreshadowing through dream sequence

>>6351174

>Characters suffer from childhood trauma at all

>>6351160
are you new

>>6351193
who fits it then cuck?

>"EVER SINCE THE DAWN OF MANKIND"

>>6351157

dfw was born and raised and lived in america

>book is written by a Taiwanese Van Darkholme impersonator

>"There are two kinds of people..."

>book has a flashback within a flashback

>exposition mostly done through flashbacks

>book is told entirely in unattributed dialogue

>>6351225

I'd really like some context on this image.

>>6351223
>>6351139
>>6350946
>Anonymous user keeps posting the same le smug TV man meemee

>>6351230
it's mike brown the dead kid from ferguson

>author spends a quarter of the book explaining things that happened earlier in the series
>spends another tenth repeating concepts already understood from previous books
>uses certain phrases or descriptions of people way too often in later books

>main character has had a ''dificult childhood''

>Author uses metaphors or similes to describe shit when using basic language could achieve the same effect
>Author uses metaphors or similes to describe physical characteristics at all

Thank God it's mostly contained to books for retarded younger readers.

>>6351263
>disparages young readers
>posts infantile cartoons

>>6351268
anime is an art form at the forefront of artistic direction

>>6351233

Oh.
Ha.

>>6351268

>Thinks posting an anime reaction image on 4chan discredits anything about a post at all

Do you know what site you're on?

>>6351287
you're on /lit/
>>6351274
explain

>>6351157
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>>6351293
quite frankly, not sure where to go after my shitpost that doesn't come off as excessively blatant. 'Pologies, chief, will try harder next time.

>>6351263
>books for retarded younger readers.
>animu faggot in charge of condescension

>>6351192
>characters who have had shit happen to them in the past barely show any mental damage

>first person protagonist is the opposite gender of the author

>>6351525
Robin Hobb is great.
Don't be a bully.

>"It was a dark and stormy night."

>extensive description of rural landscape

>>6350946
>I'm a fucking retard

>>6350946
This only annoys me when the description becomes so in depth that by the time I finish reading the description, I forget the beginning of the description. Russian authors are guilty of this; It doesn't make me put the book down though, I'll sometimes just read and re-read the description until I have almost memorized it; it slows down my reading immensely, but satiates my autism.

>>6351612
true, but now and then you notice that fitz has womantier troubles.

>>6351263
anyone know what the gif is from?

>>6352317
Thomas Hardy tho

>and the description is 100 pages after the character was first introduced

>>6351181
imagine being this guy's dad

>needless description of every room
As bad as describing the appearances of people. I probably don't need to know how many walls and pillars are in there if we're not spending more than a minute there.

>>6352406

Agreed. Where did people get the idea that unnecessarily descriptive prose constituted good writing? Are these the same people who use purple prose because they want to come of as more intelligent than they actually are?

>>6352317
I actually love these descriptions. If I'm not familiar with the area being described I often look for photos of it and research its history a bit. Having a developed sense of place in your mind when reading a novel makes the experience so much more enjoyable.

Perhaps even better is in Japanese novels when birds are described.

>>6351228
dumb trashmanposter

>>6352840
What a handsome, all-American-looking man. I just may have to read Gaddis. Here's the question though: JR or The Recognitions? Which is better?

>>6352840
J R is one of my favorite books.
>mfw the local bookshop didn't order the recognitions for me
I'm going to go force them to buy mediocre books today as penance.

>>6352849
>What a handsome, all-American-looking man

SPOILER: he got kicked out of harvard for drinking and then got like three divorces and he had a jewish daughter, if you're /pol/

>>6352872
I'm not /pol/, but what you just described sounds like the ultimate American experience. If you don't get divorced at least once in your life and then remarry, you're hardly an American.

>>6352883
You'd like J R. If you can read it. I didn't find it that hard. He's good a differentiating voices and giving you clues who is in a room. I haven't read the recognitions (amazon finally has copies again though, it looks like) yet but J R is directly about capitalism and america

>>6352893
What are some good titles for intro to J R? I'm not the anon you responded to, but I want to get into him as well

>>6352910
Carpenter's Gothic is mostly unattributed dialogue but there are only two characters at a time for the most part. Agapē Agape is a 100 page long paragraph and it was actually "written" by a character in J R.

>>6350946

>Protagonist is a white male

>>6352933
>There's a single protagonist

>>6351263
The other guy's shocked reaction seems too delayed

>>6351139

This is OK if the character is a God or spirit.