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3437088 No.3437088[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

what the fuck is this

>> No.3437097

isn't it obvious?

>> No.3437094

If you can't tell from that then you're an idiot.

>> No.3437105

what does Lad mean?

>> No.3437120

>>3437105
A lad is a type of young man who is largely interested in drinking and fornicating rather than intellectual pursuits

>> No.3437122

>>3437105
British equivalent of Jersey Shore-esque white trash.

>> No.3437135

>>3437120
>>3437122

you guys fucking with me? pretty sure those books that are typified as Lad lit doesn't fit the description you just gave me

>> No.3437154

>>3437105
A pleb male who at least has enough self-respect not to have neckbeard-tier interests

>> No.3437158

>>3437122

>implying they have books in Jersey Shore

>> No.3437162
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3437162

>>3437135
Lad is just a young male. It's usually attributed to a binge-drinking, lower-middle to working class male who likes to fuck around and enjoy himself, but it doesn't have that much of a negative connotation.

'Lads mag' is a popular term in the UK to refer to socially acceptable borderline soft-porn mags like pic related. And Lad is a term of endearment used by either a group of guys to each other; "EZ Lads, whose up for getting wanker'd?", or by a father to a son; "Oi Jezza, have you met my lad before?"

>> No.3437165

Lad lit is like chick lit for men. So typical "guy stuff". Probably involves kicking ass and fucking sluts in some manner.

>> No.3437167

>>3437135
What do you think they'd read if not books about the SAS?

>> No.3437168

>>3437158
>implying pictograms of dicks do not qualify as proto-lit

>> No.3437171

>>3437158
Three of them are published authors.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/11623747?ie=UTF8&tag=thefregeo-20&nkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=932amp;creativeASIN=1451623747
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0207539X?ie=UTF8&tag=thefregeo-20&nkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=932amp;creativeASIN=006207539X
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B4P5ONQ8?ie=UTF8&tag=thefregeo-20&nkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=932amp;creativeASIN=B004P5ONQ8

Do you even read?

>> No.3437183

>>3437165
This. Tom Clancy and stuff like that.

>> No.3437196

>>3437171
They only wrote about how to be as dumb as they act, though. Could you imagine our faces if one of them wrote something really, genuinely good? I'd have to completely reevaluate how I judge people I see on TV.

>> No.3437201

>>3437171
>mfw none of us are

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3437203

>>3437196
>tfw Jersey Shore managed to write and publish books
>tfw you haven't

Time to write.

>> No.3437224

>>3437203
do you star in a tv show watched by millions of people?

>> No.3437234

>>3437224
I'll have you know, that I post on an imageboard visited by tens of millions. I have argued with some of the site's most famous tripfags, and my posts have been read by countless anons!

>> No.3437239

>>3437224
The audience is of no consequence. The act of writing a completed work is what humiliates me.

>> No.3437253

>>3437239
Is your story any good? I'm not asking if the prose is artful enough, it's just that if the story has any meaning to you it shouldn't be that hard to write. So what is it?

>> No.3437260

>>3437239
do you seriously think they weren't ghostwritten?

>> No.3437262

>>3437122 Not quite.

>> No.3437265

>>3437162
Oh man so many memories of those magazines.

Not good ones, I'll spare you the story

>> No.3437289

>>3437253
I think my major problem is that I am bad at structuring a story before I start it. So I'll have a strong idea about the characters and the general direction of the plot, but lose control during the writing and end up with a bunch of fragments. So the problem is not so much that the story lacks meaning to me, but that it is too vaguely defined.

>> No.3437299

>>3437289
So spend a weekend just lying around thinking about story ideas.

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3437317

>>3437299
Now that you mention it, I do have an almost empty weekend coming up. Thanks Anon... I guess it really does help to articulate a problem.

>> No.3437318

>>3437317
There is a fucking alien in the window.

>> No.3437324

>>3437088
Bro lit would be a better name