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What do you think about pulp?

>> No.15532015

>>15531991

I try not to think. Only coom.

>> No.15532027

pulp bad ,smart thniking big book good
read greeks

>> No.15532319

>>15532015
Based.

>> No.15532521

>>15531991
It is possible to find very interesting things. Many good authors can not break into the "big, serious" literature or do not have such a desire and are published as a pulp. So maybe some of the books from the picture will be considered a masterpiece after hundreds of years.

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>>15531991
Some pulp can be great but most is shit.

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>>15531991
I try to stay away from any pulp that's modern, way too many faggots influenced by anime.
That being said, I recently finished
>The Drawing of the Three
>Interview with the Vampire
>Blood Meridian
>Call of Cthulhu
and those are all incredibly fictional but do a good job of not feeling pulpy.

>> No.15533637

>>15531991
Can you recommend me some good litrpg?

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>>15533637
why not just get into some tabletop lore and write one yourself?

>> No.15533665

>>15531991
Are these picture books or literature?

>> No.15533705

>>15533647
if you are unable to answer my question then please don't respond at all, okay? thanks a bunch

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>>15531991
what are the prerequisites to get into this genre?

>> No.15533713

>>15531991
I don't think about them.

>> No.15533720

>>15533705
wtf why?

>> No.15533730

>>15533720
jk I love you buddy :)

>> No.15533736

Only buy them for the cover. Some are good though.

>> No.15533750

>>15531991
>We want the weeb audience

>> No.15533773

Are old pulp books unironically better than what's coming out of modern literature?

Just a rhetorical question.

>> No.15533924

>>15533773
>rhetorical

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how many pages do you think this c00mer dedicates to describing his female characters' body?

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>>15531991
I love the cover art of old pulp magazines. They are badass

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>>15531991
they're awesome. Saw one of their last concerts at radio city

>> No.15534015

>>15533647
>>15533720
fuck you

>> No.15534033

>>15531991
charm school >>> mystic guardians > swordsman of the rift > metal mage >>> bone lord > summoner > branded >>> cherry blossom

>> No.15534134

How would you describe pulp? What make pulp pulp as opposed to any other genre? Surely it cant just be the cover of the book

>> No.15534886

>>15533773
Probably

>> No.15534973

>>15534134
Pulp occurs when a writer uses too many words to say too little things, providing little psychological insight or pleasure of prose in exchange for the time wasted on the text. These books will be nothing but pulp to be trashed in a few decades when the next new genre fad comes around.

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I like pulp. One of my favorite manga even feels like pulp fiction

>> No.15534998

>>15534134
The stories are typically melodramatic and outlandish

>> No.15535395

>>15531991
I appreciate that these guys are unapologetically making power fantasy haremshit instead of pretending to be deep power fantasy haremshit like the witcher.

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>>15533971
One day I'll collect 60s/70s genre paperbacks just for the covers. Love the trashy aesthetic.

>> No.15535488

>>15535395
they probably feel like shit on the inside though, fucking hacks

>> No.15535523

>>15531991
looks like weebshit and nothing is worse than weebshit

>> No.15535610

They look like Western light novels. Are they any good?

>> No.15535683

>>15531991
pulp is fun. that PIC is not even pulp.

>> No.15535713

>>15531991
I want publishers to start using this art style for serious fiction as well. Just for shits.

>> No.15536461

>>15535713
>dune but with chani, lady jessica, and irulan as 'fuller and scantily clad' women on the cover
finally i can prove to those damned jocks that dune isn't for nerds and is totally cool

>> No.15536542

>>15535610
>look like Western light novels
Yeah, but at the end of the day the MC gets to fuck the girls on the cover.

>Are they any good?
No, not really, Daniel Black is the only one I have read that can claim real quality of any sort.

>> No.15536808 [DELETED] 

What is that like a Western version of isekai?