/lit/ - Literature

>mfw finishing durlags tower for the first time
God damn that was the most quintessential kino dungeon crawling experience, but it realy is exhausting

Why is this book so damn long? I dont hate the content here, but it is not nearly engaging enough to be stretched out for 1000 pages. at this point it feels like every bit of dialogue and scene just goes on and on and on

>>20731554
Can only speak for Canada but yes.

I went looking around for literary agents for a high fantasy novel I'd finished. The ones who were accepting fantasy were only interested in accepting it if it was from an author of colour. This was specifically stated in their stipulations on their bio pages. They're not interested in reading a manuscript if it's from a straight white male. It's not about the work, it's about the author, explicitly. They are allowed to racially discriminate, at least in Canada, because racially discriminative hiring is legal in Canada as long as it's not done against a "protected class". Even our government does it when hiring for government jobs where they have you fill out an employment equity form to inform them if you're a woman or part of a visible minority.

Essentially, agents aren't looking to represent your work, they're looking to represent you. They're looking for someone they can promote as "THE BLACK INDIGENOUS TRANS WOMAN WHO IS REDEFINING THE MODERN SPACE OPERA".

today i have learned that I can drink beer and hard alcohol fine but i have no idea how to pace myself with wine, especially on an empty stomach

>>18590798
the technics of hair loss

>>18047040
Damn, is there more stuff like this in the book?

>>17546000
>On some more complex level that should apply to most of what goes on in the brain.

>>16302101
>finish reading a book
>the story is not over
>turns out the book is heralded as a postmodern masterpiece so it can eschew all narrative form and leave you blueballed

>just played vidya for the last 6 hours
>tfw i could have read 120 pages in that time
i'm uninstalling vidya and never playing again bros

>>15891555
>started buying and cooking sweet potatoes at $.79/lb
>now $.99/lb
Dude it’s fucking ridiculous what the fuck should I eat, rice and beans till I buy a $200 shotgun and blow my fucking brains out?

>The young officials laughed at and made fun of him, so far as their official wit permitted; told in his presence various stories concocted about him, and about his landlady, an old woman of seventy; declared that she beat him; asked when the wedding was to be; and strewed bits of paper over his head, calling them snow. But Akakiy Akakievitch answered not a word, any more than if there had been no one there besides himself. It even had no effect upon his work: amid all these annoyances he never made a single mistake in a letter. But if the joking became wholly unbearable, as when they jogged his hand and prevented his attending to his work, he would exclaim, "Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?" And there was something strange in the words and the voice in which they were uttered. There was in it something which moved to pity; so much that one young man, a new-comer, who, taking pattern by the others, had permitted himself to make sport of Akakiy, suddenly stopped short, as though all about him had undergone a transformation, and presented itself in a different aspect. Some unseen force repelled him from the comrades whose acquaintance he had made, on the supposition that they were well-bred and polite men. Long afterwards, in his gayest moments, there recurred to his mind the little official with the bald forehead, with his heart-rending words, "Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?" In these moving words, other words resounded --"I am thy brother." And the young man covered his face with his hand; and many a time afterwards, in the course of his life, shuddered at seeing how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savage coarseness is concealed beneath delicate, refined worldliness, and even, O God! in that man whom the world acknowledges as honourable and noble.

Gets me every time.

Why do women more than men prefer reading poetry?

Why can’t real life be like how novels are depicted?

I'm depressed and want to read some fantasy. Is Elantris good?