/lit/ - Literature

I don't read shit buddy ¬_¬

>>7087580
fag

>>7087576
Probably my peers' writing.

>>7087581
God is Dog backwards

>>7087576
My friends' writing. They always want me to read their stories or follow their novel progression. It's quite odd because I never wrote anything myself yet they highly regard my opinion.

my diary, tbh

does anyone else just lose all respect for somebody once they use a word like 'noble' in ordinary conversation

>>7087605
There are many words I consider forbidden like “whimsical”, “flummoxed” or “lackadaisical” that sound ridiculous, “borborygmus”, “callipygian” or “concupiscent” that are rarely used correctly and scientific or medical lexicon employed in a regular conversation. Those who frequently use them often seem to try too hard achieving originality and lack of accuracy and economy. Unjustified abbreviations also get on my nerves. Everytime I read “tbh”, even ironically, I stop reading and ignore the poster, without caring about what he said.

>>7087612
>gave a friend my copy of the hobbit as he had never read tolkein before
>for the next 2 months he would say 'flummoxed' wherever possible
>stopped hanging out with him after then, mainly for this reason

>>7087618
You should tell him that sounds ridiculous and try-hard. Give him some Hemingway so you're sure he won't find more obscure words to misuse.

>>7087576
So what exactly am I reading here? Some TF2 fan fiction?

>>7087612
tbh is lately used with that exact purpose tbh

>>7087612
same tbh

>>7087635
Some TF2 fanfiction animation that has a cult following from literal 12 year olds

>>7087653
By “unjustified” I didn't mean “misemployed”. The single reason one would use it here on a computer with no characters limits is pure laziness. Same goes for the punctuation.

>>7087671
>the only reason someone should use an initialism is for convenience
Are you literally autistic?

>>7087576
2666. it had some ideas, but how does something so fucking long winded and racist get that much attention? it was overhyped for me, and i was expecting something great but got shit instead

>>7087689
>one should use it for convenience because typing 12 characters is exhausting

>>7087694

I think he was implying that the appropriation of initialism is more of a cultural movement than a deliberate mechanism to save time.

>>7087695
I didn't understand. Anyway, that's still retarded.

>>7087694
OK, your response gives me all the info I need

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk.

I can't believe the same guy who wrote Fight Club wrote a novel where the main character anally rapes a guy and ends with a dildo shooting flames everywhere.

>>7087719
Somebody didn't understand Fight Club ;)

>>7087612
You've gotta take it in stride tbh famalam jam.

>>7087618
>gave a friend a book
>he actually read it

>STOPPED HANGING OUT W/ HIM

Wtf is wrong with you

The Emporer's Babe. Still wrote an essay on it though. Other contenders: Mrs Dalloway, Pride and Predjudice, The Nighwatchmen.

Identity politics poetry.

Probably an Ales Kot comic.

>>7087692
Bolano cant be racist, he's Mexican

>>7087929
a lot of good books are racist

>>7087831
>Mrs Dalloway
>Pride and Prejudice

there is no way those are amongst the worst things you have read

>>7087576
11:11 from Boaretto. Self published shit, hope it will never be translated in your language.

>>7087978
Both boring books so yeh

Hunters of Dune, one of the sequels to the Dune series written by Herbert's son. Awful, and the later books in the original series were bad enough to start with.

Maximum Ride, friend of mine recommended it to me since I had been looking for a book with angel like creatures. That and they compared it to the way my novel was progressing at the time. After I read that series, I scrapped multiple elements in my own story so that would never happen again.

>>7087956
Maybe he is white

I got a collection of stories by creative writing students at the university of south australia which is pretty funny. one of the stories (written by, to my understanding, a middle aged man) details a teenage prostitute and how the chaste man she wants to marry (she told him she's a virgin) comes into her brothel, and heartbroken she is comforted by another prostitute who she then falls in love with in the last paragraph, even though earlier on it is established that she and this other hooker hate each other. Probably the dumbest thing I've ever read, full of cliche, bad writing, poor technique. Maybe i should try and scan some of the stories in that collection

>>7087830
I can understand it, though. Imagine giving someone a copy of Infinite Jest, and they started speaking in footnotes.

It would be impossible to stand them.