/lit/ - Literature

When on vacation (especially if I'm traveling a lot) I find that collections of short stories are infinitely superior to novels.

And when it comes to short stories, you can't get any better than the works of Roald Dahl.

>>2309201
Hodor is THE KING IN THE NORTH!

>>2290890
Egregious is a superb word

What's your favorite word, /lit/?

Mine's "tristesse".

>Bonus points for posting a sentence where you use said word.

Gonna get something published in Esquire!

Well... Esquire *Malaysia*, but still big to me.

The most worthwhile bits were the bullshit stories Johnny made up. The birds, the Korean martial artists, the doctors who healed him!

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl.

WoD is a fantastic base to start a story like this, man. I'd read it if it were low key, something like, one guy swamped in a world of mystery he'll never solve.

I've always thought WoD began to suck when it zoomed out and went into heavy metafiction (more a problem of oWoD rather than nWoD), so steer clear from vampires or werewolves or anything that even hints like Twilight.

Unless you wanted to sell the story, of course.

They're airport adventures.

Some are better than others (Angels & Demons + The Da Vinci Code, probably). The Lost Symbol was pretty bloody awful, though. You'd think a story about the Freemasons would be more interesting.

Anybody know any decent non-conspiracy Mason fiction?

>>1144635
Dahl was also a certified fighter ace with at least 5 kills, and easily many more.

Roald Dahl was too tall to fly a fighter in WW2, but he didn't want to be a bomber pilot, so he forced himself into those tiny cockpits all the same.

>>1144301
People here get party v& for that. :(

How did you know I was from there..?

>>1142301
Thank you for that excellent suggestion. I'll have it noted, and I think it'd make a good contrast from the usual litany of fetishes and fuckedupness. I know a few legitimate nice girls.

>>1142284
Is anybody ever really 'normal', though? (I'm curious at how to appeal to you and your female readership, assuming you are; the bulk of the current readership *is* female, but I don't presume any of them represent the whole gender. I'm listening to what you've got to say, though)

>>1142268
Too high praise. Cannot accept.

>>1142230
Fictionwise I've had published short stories, yeah. I don't have the sustained force of will to write a novel-length.

>>1142224
Thanks! I hope others stumble upon it, then.

>>1142223
Best compliment I've received. I don't know whether to thank you or spank you.

The compilations of Roald Dahl's short stories are awesome. Go get Skin or something.

>>1142010
Reading this makes me realize that Rachael might be reading this.

>Feels mostly ambivalent but somewhat curious, man.

>>1141978
OMG HOW DID YOU KNOW MY TRIP.

Seriously. How did you? That was well-done.

(I'm not averse to a good pegging, though.)

>>1141975
Fuck me in the ass.

>>1141957
Maybe on the blog in the future (See: follow!). I'm big on consent playing a role when it comes to me writing about them.

That said I can tell you that if you went to RS and searched, you'd find a fair few awesome things.

>>1141945
I'm sure if you read the rest of the blog my genuine love for women is apparent. Criticism acknowledged, though.

Um, but House of Leaves was published in 2000, and so was Poe's Haunted. What are you talking about? (Also, explorers. COOL. I don't want to be the poor fag who got the Useless Geology chapter, though.)

The Road

PAPA NOOOOOOOOOOO

>>1052685
I posted what I think of 2666 in >>1052691

>>1052689
DUDE YES I HAVE

The book made me cry (I keep rabbits at home, they are very, very dear to me), the movie did it as well.

Well, the movie made me D: constantly, it's a fucking brutal world out there for rabbits. Trippy song after getting injured... rabbit fights to the death... Glorious film.