/lit/ - Literature

>>5839256
>>5839290
Honestly, every single poster they have made for the movie would make a better book cover than the penguin one.

So /lit/, the Inherent Vice trailer is out.

The fact that this is actually happening makes me disgusted in levels I can't begin to express.

I don't want to start sounding like an edgy fedora masturbator but this really makes me lose faith in the current state of humanity and the male gender in particular.

It literally started as detective fanfiction written by some christian recluse.

I've got nothing against an neo-noir novel becoming a best-seller, but what bothers me is that it's such a poorly written one.

Everything in the book is like it was written by a lonely 14 year old, no sense of pacing or thriller at all.
You could literally go to the story section of /x/ and find better writing.

Here are some ACTUAL quotes:
>What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

> ... as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.

>Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional.

>Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

I mean, seriously?

The premise is so absurdly exploitative and retardedly cheap in a primal way I'm surprised this has gotten to the point it has.

Literally everything that is wrong with humanity.

It seems that film is more complex than literature.

Am I wrong?

Is this going to be good?

>>4787850
He could be dead already and left a bunch of manuscripts and the owners of his state will keep publishing or selling the rights to make movies....