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1467640 No.1467640 [Reply] [Original]

Okay so now /lit/ has become a mainstream board all of a sudden in less time than 24 hours?

What the fuck? How will we suddenly deal with all the newfags? I mean we are e/lit/ists after all and shit.

Should we carry on with all the Ayn Rand, Sci-Fi hate, eBook help and other general bullcrap we repeat on a daily basis.

>> No.1467642

>>1467640
I WELCOME ANY NEW PEOPLE TO /LIT/.

THE SHIT STIRRERS ALWAYS EVENTUALLY LEAVE ON THEIR OWN ACCORD.

MAYBE PLENTY OF THEM ARE NICE ENOUGH GUYS

>> No.1467645

it's just like having a new baby sister but instead of makeovers we can give them knowledge

>> No.1467648

>>1467640
Rule 4 should be enforced now.

>> No.1467649

board doesnt seem any faster than usual?

>> No.1467652

should i feel bad for reading Tao Lin's Richard Yates a couple of weeks ago? i bought it on a whim and it wasn't bad.

>> No.1467656

>>1467648
Fucking agreed fellow c/lit/.

>>1467649
Doesn't seem faster currently, but I imagine with the news and all that shit we will get some more /r9k/ travelers, who will prop themselves here and wish to talk about "The Catcher in the Rye" or some other melodramatic crap.

>> No.1467658

>>1467652
Good morning Tao.

>> No.1467661

>>1467658
haha no! really! i don't know shit about him. john campbell mentioned it on his site and i was intrigued and bought it. i didn't know that tao lin was some internet celebrity. that kind of sucks.

>> No.1467684

Maybe people will come in and actually not be pompous and discuss trolliterature.

Lol, no but really maybe.

>> No.1467769

Why have newfags arrived?

>> No.1467770

>>1467769
r9k and new got shut down, theres a link at the top of the board about it

>> No.1467773

>>1467769
to check moot quints

>> No.1467775

>>1467661
I love you and your shenanigans Tao. How's married life?

>> No.1469235

i find it funny that there's not much tao lin hate on /lit/...people seem more like 'meh'

>> No.1469253

>>1469235

His writing is so bland as to inspire neither emotion. This is a bad thing. Tao Lin should GTFO of literature.

>> No.1469258

>>1469235
It's like a forced meme sort of deal, and I think most people here have ceased to care enough to vehemently oppose the author itself (remember /lit/ is pretty laid back compared to other boards).

>>1467684
But the pompousness is one of the aspects that makes /lit/ not complete garbage.

>> No.1469286

>>1469258
i really disagree with you there. that's the very reason why the ambivalent opinion on tao lin surprises me--you put up something like "i like so-and-so, recommend me some more" and you'll definitely posts saying "so-and-so was entry-level shit compared to whatshisname, read blahblahblah etc"
also, at first, he was appealing to me because of the twitter/facebook-update pointlessness of his prose...now it's more like an annoying fallout from virtual social networks.

>> No.1469298

I like tao lin as a person but his writing is nothing more than gimicky satire that gets stale before you're 2/3 through it.

>> No.1469309

>OP's pic
>Franzen as a legitimate suggestion
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>> No.1469316

>>1469298
Perhaps the same could be said of all religions.