EPTOn February 04 2011 11:42 GreEny K wrote:
Cool story... Made time fly.
Cool story... Made time fly.
it didn't last time i made this thread.. lol
On January 29 2010 07:53 GreEny K wrote:
Eh
Eh
trying to get big post count, eh?
The true story of selling Heroin in New York - Page 4
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Alexson
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it didn't last time i made this thread.. lol trying to get big post count, eh? | ||
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Irrelevant
United States2364 Posts
Seems more like a thrown together screen play for a high school drama class. | ||
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StorkHwaiting
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XCetron
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Story is fake: Cool story wtf are we arguing about? Yea people can write better than this. This may or may not be true. It gave some names so even go look it up if you really want to verify it. Theres nothing wrong with pointing out that it might be fake since you guys read it anyway. Stop complaining about people pointing out that its fake since you're derailing it one step further. | ||
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Scaramanga
Australia8091 Posts
On February 04 2011 10:47 Mellotron wrote: Yawn. Mediocre writing ability, mediocre descriptive skills/imagery, boring/cliche subject matter, copy/pasted internet meme that glorifies the selling and use of a nightmare substance that destroys human beings who are too stupid to know any better. Mankind will take a step forward when it stops romanticizing ridiculous shit like this. But i dont ever see it happening. Humans are going to grind their gears on the same 5 subject matters until the end of time, never learning anything, never realizing anything, never moving past the basic. But it wont matter, because there will always be a fresh crop of new humans to pick up being miserable and spinning their wheels right where the last generation left off. So lesson learned is: if you are going to write a song, poem, story, book, or movie, just make it about heroin and youll get ten times the attention from the public. Even if the story or writing is talentless. In fact, you could probably slack off quite a bit in your skill, and just rely on controversial subject matter to bail you out. You might get like... who knows... 5 guys out there out of 10000 that see through you and call you on being a hack, but the rest of the people will call you a genius and an artist. Why waste time trying to tell a great story when you can just be like "drugs blah blah blah, murder blah blah blah, more drugs blah blah" and cash in? Edgy subject matter is a piss poor substitute for strong writing. Piss. Poor. So who's right, you or 99% of people who read this and find it really entertaining? | ||
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
On February 04 2011 12:24 Scaramanga wrote: So who's right, you or 99% of people who read this and find it really entertaining? He's actually right. Heroin dealing, and heroin use in general is romanticized by undergrad / poor writers like whoever wrote the story in OP. They want to do something less boring so they pick something like heroin and completely miss what drug dealing / addiction is really about. If it was a true story it would actually be readable and not such trite shit about "a man on every street" that came from some kid in a dorm room being edgy. Or "The fat chick" who I sold heroin to for the first time. It reeks of immaturity and ignorance. | ||
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Storm704
United States114 Posts
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Alexson
Belarus293 Posts
Lol you and him should just run the world, because you're sooo much better then everybody else. | ||
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United States9633 Posts
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
On February 04 2011 12:28 Alexson wrote: Lol you and him should just run the world, because you're sooo much better then everybody else. criticism of a blatantly fake OP story combined with a juvenile take on drug dealing that disrespects addicts and the actual dealing of heroin in a thread about such topics seems fine with me. Sorry if we don't think a "my first client was a fat chick" writing style along with "a man on every corner' theme is engrossing and "cool". If anything it just shows the writer of such a poor story needs to develop more as a person and writer to tackle such a story in non "badass dealer" way. | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
On February 04 2011 12:00 FlashIsHigh wrote: Wow hes not trying to win the the pulitzer prize or anything, get off your high horse and stop being such a fucking douche He thinks he knows everything about art. But in reality, he doesn't know what he's talking about. http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=177877 | ||
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Karliath
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uGoatt
United States85 Posts
On February 04 2011 10:47 Mellotron wrote: Yawn. Mediocre writing ability, mediocre descriptive skills/imagery, boring/cliche subject matter, copy/pasted internet meme that glorifies the selling and use of a nightmare substance that destroys human beings who are too stupid to know any better. Mankind will take a step forward when it stops romanticizing ridiculous shit like this. But i dont ever see it happening. Humans are going to grind their gears on the same 5 subject matters until the end of time, never learning anything, never realizing anything, never moving past the basic. But it wont matter, because there will always be a fresh crop of new humans to pick up being miserable and spinning their wheels right where the last generation left off. So lesson learned is: if you are going to write a song, poem, story, book, or movie, just make it about heroin and youll get ten times the attention from the public. Even if the story or writing is talentless. In fact, you could probably slack off quite a bit in your skill, and just rely on controversial subject matter to bail you out. You might get like... who knows... 5 guys out there out of 10000 that see through you and call you on being a hack, but the rest of the people will call you a genius and an artist. Why waste time trying to tell a great story when you can just be like "drugs blah blah blah, murder blah blah blah, more drugs blah blah" and cash in? Edgy subject matter is a piss poor substitute for strong writing. Piss. Poor. User was warned for this post | ||
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pfods
United States895 Posts
Please, literary greats, post the amazon links to the books you've written. Or the the new york times links to your op-eds and critique stories. I'd love to read either. | ||
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j0k3r
United States577 Posts
On February 04 2011 12:37 Karliath wrote: At first I thought it was you. Then, I realized you're from Belarus. I thought the OP moved there after his debacle at first, lol. Since he said he "made a blog" a while ago I was under the impression he was the author. Clearly this is a false notion. Having said that, I enjoyed the read thoroughly for what it's worth -- entertaining fiction. The style isn't bad in my opinion, but uniquely written and even a bit too eloquent for a drug dealer with horrible grades. As far as authenticity, this person was either a real NYU student or used Wikipedia and Google Maps way too much because I pretty much recognize every location that was written about. | ||
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j0k3r
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BroOd
Austin10833 Posts
On February 04 2011 12:50 pfods wrote: I love all the hemingways this thread has brought out of the wood work. Please, literary greats, post the amazon links to the books you've written. Or the the new york times links to your op-eds and critique stories. I'd love to read either. You can criticize their criticism all you like, but this isn't a valid way to do it. You don't need to be at the top of a field, or even notable, to criticize works in that field. | ||
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Alexson
Belarus293 Posts
On February 04 2011 12:51 j0k3r wrote: I thought the OP moved there after his debacle at first, lol. Since he said he "made a blog" a while ago I was under the impression he was the author. Clearly this is a false notion. Having said that, I enjoyed the read thoroughly for what it's worth -- entertaining fiction. The style isn't bad in my opinion, but uniquely written and even a bit too eloquent for a drug dealer with horrible grades. As far as authenticity, this person was either a real NYU student or used Wikipedia and Google Maps way too much because I pretty much recognize every location that was written about. I'll edit the OP, what I meant was I made a blog about the same story but I decided to repost it because I thought it didn't get enough credit. | ||
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