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2467429 No.2467429 [Reply] [Original]

>BUY BOOK OF "LITERARY FICTION".
>PERSON ASKS "WHAT IS IT ABOUT?".

>> No.2467431
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2467431

>actually reading literary fiction and not just pretending you have by knowing the themes

does anyone actually do this?

>> No.2467436

>>2467429
What is literary fiction about?

>> No.2467437

>2011
>buying books.

>> No.2467446

>>2467437
> 2013
> thinking it's 2011
Seriously guys

>> No.2467450

I loved the part where the main character had a quasi-epiphany and then the story just sort of ended without any resolution. The author could include fewer metaphors for writing though, those get boring fast.

>> No.2467452

>>2467446
>2012
>Thinking it's 2013
>Correcting someone who thinks it's 2011

>> No.2467454

>>2467452
>2012
>Not realising >thinking it's 2013 was a joke
>correcting someone who was joking

>> No.2467457

I don't really distinguish the two fields anymore, too much grey if you ask me.

A friend of mine asked to borrow White Noise when he saw it on my shelf because he had seen the film. I jumped up and was like lolwut they made a film of that? I have to see it right now, went to Google and found that shitty horror film with the same name.

I think there is a lot of fiction that isn't considered literary but actually is and vice versa, but I must admit I don't buy regular fiction of any kind because it bores me. I prefer non fiction to that.

>> No.2467458

>>2467454
What a funny joke.

>> No.2467462

>>2467454
>1985
>not realising that >>2467452 was a continuation of the joke.

>> No.2467464

The British Victorian sci fi pioneers had a lot more going for them than a lot of Dickens, Thackeray et al imo

>> No.2467465

>>2467462
>2023
>implying it was a joke
>implying jokes aren't predicated on humor
>implying it was humorous

>> No.2467469

What's the problem? You can't answer the person in freight of coming off as a pleb?

>> No.2467478

>>2467465
>1491
>implying jokes are predicated on humour and not on the aim to be humourous.

>> No.2467481

>it's about some guy who lives in dublin

>it's about rockets

>it's about tennis

etc

it's pretty easy to answer

>> No.2467482
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2467482

>in Chapters
>ask clerk if they have Fagles' translation of Homer's Odyssey
>says she can't find it in the system
>ask her if they have Lattimore's at least
>types some things in to the computer, looks puzzled
>asks me, "I can't seem to find it, it would be under 'Comedy' right?"
>she thought I was talking about Homer Simpson
>mfw

>> No.2467485

>>2467478
>1839
>YES I AM BECAUSE FUCK INTENTIONS

>> No.2467486

>>2467478
> 1492
> Columbus sailed the ocean blue

>> No.2467492

>>2467482
That's because you pronounced it like Homer Simpson, you fucking pleb.

>> No.2467497

>>2467492
Most people do, I was simply communicating what I meant in a manner I thought she would understand. Evidently not, though. She had no idea what I was talking about even after I explained to her what the book was.

>> No.2467499

>>2467481
those are the only three books that matter anyway

>> No.2467727

>>2467492

He's name was Homeros though.

>> No.2467741

I like how everyone completely missed the point of the thread. For one of the most intelligent boards, you're pretty autistic, /lit/.

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>>2467486
>1493
>Came home across the deep blue see
Counting Crows are pretty /lit/ as bands go.