/lit/ - Literature

>>19049891
That woman is not attractive. If you're going to jezebel-poast, pick better women.

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>Homosexual alert

>>19050053
She's cute and chunky. Looks pleasant. What's not to like?

>>19049891
Fine article I guess, with an annoying tone. Forgot n+1 even existed. They're right that most book reviewers submit pointless, shallow, topical work for little pay, and readers are not the actual audience and have a right to be annoyed. But there are still major staff critics who praise dull books. She doesn't consider the possibility that most new fiction just is bland and worthless in its own right: what is anyone, well-paid or not, supposed to say about a new Sally Rooney that is not buzzy faux cultural criticism? That is what the books themselves present.

>>19050140
Do people even read "new" fiction? I haven't read fiction from this century since I was a little kid. (A lot of the writing talent has probably gone into film and television). Everything else I read largely 20th century or non-fiction.

>>19050220
>Do people even read "new" fiction?
I'll read Houellebecq, but that's about it.

>>19050220
I think most people who aren't on /lit/ and don't read YA/genre/etc. predominantly read new fiction.

>>19049891
>Our reader receives them with an open mind. He is a reader, after all
If you're a reader you must also be retarded?

>>19050246
Ah I forgot about him completely! But I've only read Submission and Whatever, which are dwarved by my aforementioned readings. And those were pre-covid too so it feels like a decade ago.

>>19049891
The article misses the obvious solution, i.e.stop treating reviews as commodities. Let hobbyists write reviews and put them on their blog or whatnot instead of making it a gig. Honestly, too many writers try to make a job out of what should be their hobby.

>>19049891
can anyone tell me what kind of flowers those are? They look like dahlias but im not sure.

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>>19050085
She's incredibly overweight, at least by 30-40 pounds. That's not healthy, nor attractive. Look how round her face is. She shouldn't be carrying that much fat at all relative to her frame. You two must be Americans. Only Americans whose tastes have been perverted and negrified could find that attractive. She looks good for a fat girl, but she is still fat and she would look much better if she worked out.

>>19050085
>spends a grotesque amount of time avoiding her ungainly appearance
>probably complains about muh patriarchy and oppression
>doesn’t understand why she has loads of similar ungainly men chasing her
>perpetuates me too culture because she submits herself to whatever half decent maldad will throw her a bone and rescinds the action after coming to find she was a convenient pump and dump

>>19050658
yeah but those extra 30-40 pounds are all in her big sloshing bazongas, which is precisely where I prefer it

>>19050678
I just like her boobs, need not concern myself with the imaginary

>>19049891
Bitch looks ugly as fuck. Looks like an overweight Sarah Palin or the most annoying English teacher ever. Her pose is so self indulgent too. Doesn't she know she's fat and ugly?
Fags here will say
> But her bubbas :^(
Holy shit you niggers have no taste. This isn't some ren-faire where a maidens bosom excuses her for being overweight, smelly, and ugly. You faggot neckbeards should go back to one of those places or reddit honestly or get better tastes.