/lit/ - Literature

>>1577192
He said he was a kid fucker, and then 'picrelated'

>If evolution is true, why help the poor?
There's a lot of ways you could go with this:
>I am the poor.
>implying that lack of avarice is a bad trait
>implying that poor are essentially flawed
>etc

Gah, 123.

I missed about five for time. The first ten or so were easy, but I didn't really get what was going on from then until the low twenties. The last five were challenging as a mug.

>>1576450
I don't hate him, I was in high school and I read half of his books. I liked lullaby and choke at that age. I get now why people don't like him, and I don't really have the inclination to read anything by him again. When I was a kid I thought that his chorus shit (where he repeats a phrase all through a book, a la "so it goes" by Kurt V) was the cat's pajamas, but then I grew a bit and realized that it's bullshit. He's like a girlfriend you had for a summer: totally wrong for you, constantly made you angry, and you never want anything to do with them ever again, but you still wouldn't give up the memory for the world.

>>1576436
I remember that!
http://www.sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html

>>1576372
The only other one I remember is the one about full size "where-did-he-touch-you" dolls at a police department which, due to an error at the factory or something, had sex organs. It talks about cops borrowing the dolls to use as sexual aids, and this woman who works at the station who tries to protect them.

>For those who haven't read Haunted, its about a group of writers who trap themselves in a warehouse together to write short stories, inspired by the writing of Frankenstein. The book alternates between unrelated short stories by those in the warehouse and the story of those in the warehouse.

The main plot gets pretty silly, towards the end.They all end maiming and each other because they know that'll make the story all the more horrible, so they're more likely to get printed, and also so they can get a reality television deal.

>>1576358
Oh, come on, you can't just say something like that without the story! It makes it seem like you're fibbing.

I was gonna say "guts" too.

Did you read the epilogue in the paperback (or was it a prologue) where he said all those people passed out while he was reading it during the book tour?

I just checked it wikipedia, he said sixty altogether

Well /lit/ is getting shitposted pretty hard right now. Guess it's time to go sleep.

>You ever notice how this shit picks up in the middle of the night? It's like /b/ had last call or something, and all the trolls need somewhere to be before they go home. /lit/'s like bowling.

Next time someone says that only trips shitpost...

>>1575672
What do you do?

And..... i've killed the joke!

can't sleep... must not troll

>>1575643
i've read this four times over again and I keep laughing. My gf is bitching me out for keeping her up, so fuck you, but you funny

>>1575639
Yeah good call.

>>1575633
I'll keep you updated : )

There once was a girl from Chicago's south side
Who made all wages taking a dick for a ride.
She spent time with a cock
Attached to a man named Barack
Who married her after after he left his semen inside

>it's just a fucking job. it's not your life's work. DON'T GET EMOTIONALLY INVESTED.
That's nice advice, but I don't have a job.
>if someone congratulates you on doing well, nod and say thanks and keep working like a soulless machine.
That's what I do
>if someone calls you a fucking idiot and threatens to have you fired, nod and say sorry and keep working like a soulless machine.
That's how I get fired. I got fired for my last job for complaining that we had to work a free day
>there are better people than you doing this shit. it doesn't matter. there are worse people than you doing this shit.
That's nice to know.
>Feel nothing until you are out of the front door and far away. feel nothing for them. they feel nothing for you.
But I want to feel alive all day. Can I feel alive at work if it's not about work.

>>1575611
>blink
>blink
What did I miss?

>>1575604
Ah, man! You didn't mean anything? My feeling are mad hurt.

>>1575572
Well that's a lot to digest!

>My nitpicking
was done in defense of OP. I felt like you were being vicious, so I pointed out errors in your prose so that you looked a little silly, so OP wouldn't feel so bad about being attacked on the internet.

I really appreciate the rest of your post, where you encourage me to go to school. That's not a bad thing to suggest to anyone, and the reasons I didn't finish are complicated. I also understand your endorsement of the university system, but it just isn't right for me; some people don't learn that way and there are plenty of very intelligent autodidacts out there. Why do you think I like Malcolm X so much? I read more than most people but less than I should, and you're right to say I should read more. A couple of things that I have reactions to:
>Drop your trip when posting to avoid embarrassment and harsh labeling
I don't mind being corrected, and the anonymity just gives a license to be constantly wrong without any sort of repercussion.
>how you might have a chip on your shoulder from being rejected from your first pick schools
I never applied anywhere.
>You might be stupid right now
You trolling me? Ah, shit, I was taking it seriously!

I can't emphasize enough that I appreciate your effort, but you seem to think that I'm not reaching my full potential by not going to school. I don't think so. I know I'm smart -- what a difficult concept -- and I'm comfortable with who I am. It's pretty evident that unless there's some sort of amazing twist of fate, I will remain working class until the day I die, and I'm okay with that, too. I don't like offices, I don't mind work.

>>1575575
Is there a better way to do it?