/lit/ - Literature

Make a pastehtml and post the link here. I'm sure somebody will read it. Most people who do read it will most likely not read all of it, though. Just enough to give feedback on your writing style, not the story itself.

>>2869352
I'm going to submit something to TAR soon.

The only book I own that I didn't finish reading is the second book in the Sword of Truth series (Stone of Tears) by Terry Goodkind.
Aside from that, I make it a point to read every book I purchase, or return it.
I sometimes purchase multiple books at once (like today), and read them consecutively, so, at those times, I have one book that I haven't read yet that I haven't started.

I guess it would be "The Old Man and the Sea."
I really do like that book, though. I just like all of his other ones better.

>>2869172
See you there

>>2869124
Not always. Occasionally. I don't know everything. I'm also not ashamed of being wrong.

>>2869109
Three weeks for me, too (August 27). I just did an estimate and was wrong.

>Fall
>not in two weeks
I'm going to work harder this semester than I did in previous semesters, now that I have a concrete goal.
I don't plan to make any new friends or anything like that.

>>2868996
"The series has sold 31 million copies worldwide, with book rights having been sold in 37 countries,[3][4] and set the record as the fastest-selling paperback of all time, surpassing the Harry Potter series."

Edith Hamilton's is quite good. Bulfinch is also good.
Either one would be fine, really. My personal favorite of the two is Hamilton's.

>>2868976
Yeah. You'd be better off just bluntly asking for it, instead of trying to get her to read this trilogy.
Pic related is from the second book.

>>2868898
Reading it ironically takes just as much of your time as reading it seriously, which, to me, is the worst part about reading a bad book.
That time could have been spent doing any kind of productive activity.
If you really want to read it, then go ahead and read it, I guess. Just be prepared for something like pic related. And by something like pic related I mean exactly pic related.

>>2868886
It's still a waste of time. There are better, funnier books available. Reading a bad book ironically is just as bad as reading it seriously.

Freezing a piece of your fecal matter and using it as an anal dildo would be a better use of time than reading that book or any of the books in that trilogy.

>>2868161
Well my store is B&N. In America, where reading is for faggots.
Recently, the only people to buy literature are teenagers buying it reluctantly for their high school summer reading.

>>2868134
It's probably the same as you would imagine it.
>mostly retarded customers
>sell a lot of bad books
>occasional people who buy literature
That's about it. It's a typical retail job, but I enjoy it because I love books and I get a 30% discount.

Nearly every day.
I work in one.

>>2868117
This. I always tell people that when they talk about Hitler as the worst leader in human history.
I also argue with them when they say Clinton was America's worst president.

>>2866932
Quite nice.
I'm impressed at your ability to turn such a silly idea into such an enjoyable read.

>>2866904
Part two.
Stepping out of the closet, he found himself standing directly in front of the wide-eyed daughter of the family who's house he was trespassing in.
He stood for a moment in shock before realizing that he was nude and covering his genitalia.
The girl didn't make a sound, but continued to stare at him with her eyes wide and her mouth open.
He realized now that his fate rested in the hands of this small child. He attempted to calm her by smiling and making funny faces, to show her that he meant no harm and all was well. She made no response.
He decided to try to leave the room to sneak out of the house, now that he had been discovered, but, upon trying, found that she was blocking his way. Purposefully.
He gave her a pleading look and implored her silently to allow him safe passage out of the house. She resolutely denied him with a stern look, and grabbed his hand.
She pulled him towards her bed, and pushed him down onto it. He used this opportunity to wrap the comforter around him once more.
She seemed pleased with this fact, and smiled at him, before walking out of the room.
He waited a few moments, expecting her parents to come barging in, but was met with only silence.
He decided to get up and check out the door, but found it locked from the outside. There was no window for him to sneak out of, either.
He sat back down on the bed and decided that he had no choice but to wait for her return.
Soon enough, however, he fell asleep on her bed, wrapped in her blankets.
He awoke the next morning to find himself once more in his own bed, in his room, at his own house. Wondering if it was all just a dream, he began to rise from the bed.
What he discovered, however, quickly erased all chance of it simply having been a dream.
He was still naked, and wrapped in a little girl's comforter.

Once upon a time there was a young man of the age of twenty who was entirely average. His life, too, was nothing spectacular. Everything about this young man was wholly in the norm.
One day, he awoke in a room that was not his own. Instead of having a typical frightened or shocked reaction to this, our particular young man was instead exciting, and curious.
He cautiously eased his way out of the strange new bed he found himself occupying, and made his way to the bedroom door.
The entire house that he was in was unfamiliar to him. It was about this time, too, that he noticed he was wearing no clothes.
Embarrassed, he went back to the bed and used the comforter to cover his indecency and went on to explore the rest of the home.
Scattered throughout the house were pictures of a family, a loving mother and father with their adorable young girl, who seemed to be about the age of eight.
Becoming worried that the family was currently home and would discover him nude in their house, uninvited, he began to search for the front door, in order to escape unhindered.
He was about to step outside when he spotted a vehicle pulling into the driveway: the family was returning home.
Panicking and breaking out into a cold sweat, he searched around for a suitable hiding place.
Realizing they might notice the missing comforter, he scrambled to put it back into position before securing himself a tucked-away location in the closet.
He waited there for an estimated six hours before all the lights were off and he deemed it safe to exit from his closet sanctuary.
What he found, however, was something quite shocking indeed.
To be continued in my next post.

>>2866862

>>2866806
He's right, it was.
It's on her tumblr. I was interested in the subject and Google'd her, came up with her tumblr and she wrote a surprisingly well-written piece about the video.

>>2866814
I could see that being a beneficial exercise. Thanks.
>>2866821
Has that been known to increase creativity?
>>2866822
My older sister is a music theory major in college and she has a few keyboards that are quite nice that I'm sure I could at least borrow, if not have.