/lit/ - Literature

>>1575085
will do

>>1575029
This is so fucking funny. Spite Patrol. Can you imagine! Some fuckers who drive around town, funded by taxpayer money, to start shit.

Oh my god, this whole thread is gold.

>>1575059
Tell me where to start. I'll order it off amazon.

>>1575046
For the joke. You're the Iraqi peasant to my predator drone. Sorry.

>Pride and Prejudice being written by a 21-year-old makes me want to hit the suicide booth

The one that did it for me was the career of the Rolling Stones.

>>1575026
>"It" by Stephen King only
I've read "It," by my copy was edited by someone else, implying that some of the credit belongs to someone other than Stephen King, thus in good conscience I can't say it's entirely by Stephen King, so I'll stay out.

>>1575021
Sturgeon? Who's Sturg-- oh, I see. I was just joshing. I never read, "It", either.

>>1575020
>For those who have read "It" by Stephen King only.
I've read that, but I've also read lots of other books, so I'll stay out.

>>1575000
This is great. I should write out of spite more often.

>>1574967
>by Steven King only
I've read "It" by King, but I've also read "It" by Theodore Sturgeon, so I'll stay out of this thread.

>inspire the book
>book I am writing

anyone else notice how OP wants us to inspire a book that's already started? If you've already started, can it still be inspired? Also, nice job thinking that philosophy is a fungible good.

>>1573983
>Ban all trips besides Tofu, Virginia W00f, Fabs, and onionring
I agree with this. Pizza doesn't say much, but he's good. Probably a few of you I'm missing. Brownbear likes good hiphop, so he can stay.

How about this: fuck d&e, tybrax, and stag.

>>1574919
Yeah, I've never read it tbh, I heard it's basically The Road (mccarthy) but with rich kids from the valley. Like, a bunch of boring nothing, then BAM naked twelve-year-old tied to a bed/ dead baby.

i wanna see where this thread is going.

also, duotrope.com before someone asks
>Where can I submit my work?

>>1574899
you're fucking silly

>>1574844
Oh, I liked all the stuff about crystal meth, and him calling up his dad and that.

>>1574875
Steinbeck is boss.

>>1574846
>a poetic license
>Agent Toughguy kicked down the door of the Harvard English Department's main office. The three heads of the department sat around. "I'm bringing you all jail," he said, holding out his license.
>"Wouldn't it be easier to take us to jail, rather than the other way around?"
>"That's what I meant," he said, "this isn't a badge. It's a poetic license."

>>1574821
Having a good time at your bf's?

>that was you rite?

>>1574812
I'm 23, but I've been feeling burnt out since I heard Less Than Zero was written by a 21 year old.

Speaking of famous, decent-and-worse writers, Palahniuk was first published in his 30's, too.

He's pretty awesome, and he gets better as he gets older. He's like the opposite of any rapper ever.

He's probably very encouraging to most of /lit/ who is under the impression that if you don't write a masterpiece by age 22, you'll never be a successful writer. He was discovered by Ira Glass at age 36. Read his wikipedia page, it's fun.

>>1574723
I Google'd him that night because I couldn't name anything he'd been in and found out his behavior that night wasn't unusual. He was crying about how his career is over, and his handler (for lack of a better word) was making excuses for him.

Also, general celebrity story, Andy Dick tried to pee on me once. He was drunk outside a coffee shop I was in, I saw he was Andy Dick and talked to his drunk ass for a minute. First he tried to kiss me, and when I wasn't having that, he tried to piss on me.

True fucking story, I once wrote Noam Chomsky and asked him if thinking could be aerobic. (The thinking was that if your brain takes up as much energy as people say, wouldn't it use more energy if you think about something really hard.) He wrote back a week later, saying "methinks, no."

I wrote Randall Munroe the same question, he also said probably not. He also offered that we could test it by checking the temperature of the head of someone doing something intellectually laborious (he offered math problems).