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Why are you so afraid /lit/? Become one of the initiated. Not even the normies who claimed to have read this for SJW points even read it. It was too high brow for them. Join me. You won't regret reading this novel.

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Best book of the 2010s.
Not that it's terribly good in itself but by an overall lacklustre decade.

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First sentence of pic

Duck board. Fuck Fagger Ansemen

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Look no further.

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Lucy Ellmann

You know a book is great when /lit/cels try so hard to tear it down.

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Hmmm yet /lit/ despises this masterpiece

Explain yourselves

for someone reason it makes /lit/ seethe, especially Frat Boy Semen Guzzler

So why does it make you seethe again? I believe most of you would thoroughly enjoy this book. If you like character studies, or books that autistically detail a character's life you will love this book. If you like novels with fun and unique styles you will look this book. If you like stream-of-consciousness you will like this book. If you want to read a great examination of life in the information age you will like this book.
I would compare it to Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy in terms of scope and detail about the characters and Molly's stream-of-consciousness in terms of style.
Does the phrase "the fact that" really trigger /lit/ this much. Most of you will enjoy this novel. You're just dogmatically opposed to it because you pretending to be a staunch misogynist is 4chan culture.

I'm fairly certain I'm one of three anons who have read this book in its entirety. All three of us like it. Read it /lit/ and stop seething!

Why does she make /lit/ seethe? It's a great novel. It's in my top 10 for the 2010s. The use of "the fact that" demonstrates just how much information we have at our hands in the internet age. Facts are every where, they're just one click or swipe away. Ellmann further drives this point home with the clickbait and news article headlines thay pop up now and then. Her son is obsessed with learning obscure environmental facts. In our information age everyone is obsessed with facts and science. Ellmann draws attention to this with her style and has crafted a great send-up of the internet age.
Stop seething /lit/ and become a patrician read this book. It's the best character study since Warlock and it's a fine example of stream of consciousness done right. The only reason you fear it is because you subconsciously understand its critcism of the information age and it makes you uncomfortable to realize your life is no different than the narrator's.

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Ducks, Newburyport is a literary masterpiece. I'm sorry you're triggered by a stylistic choice, and I'm sorry you're triggered by someone criticising your super callous fragilistic egotiscal nazi president drumpf

Best Book of the 2010s coming through. Sorry The Pale King, but you've been dethroned.

Now that the dust has settled, is this actually worth a read?

Holy shit this is amazing

Are there any other books this addicting/hilarious to read that are stylistically experimental

I've already read J R as well which is similarly satirical and biting and funny and enjoyed it a lot, too

>Seems like something akin to a watered down version of Édouard Levé's Autoportrait, only directed outwards instead of inwards, and thereby losing all energy, something attested by the book being over a thousand pages, something that sometimes says if you can't be good, be long, which in turn tells me that this, in fact, probably is bad. Because I can't see a reason why this would need to have this length, beyond the length itself being impressive, and something to talk about. Which it is, considering every review I've read seems to focus on it being long. But I haven't read it, so wtf do I know. The sun will explode regardless.

How did this book get nominated for a booker prize? Is it nepotism? Something feels off

>the fact that Trump wants to take cover away from 630,000 Ohioans who took up Obamacare last year, and if he gets away with it, some of those poor souls are possibly going to die, the fact that I’m glad we’re not on Obamacare, genocide, femicide, the fact that I will never see Mommy again, or Abby, or Bathsheba, or Pepito, and these are permanent sadnesses, the fact that I never liked the idea of anything being permanent, scars and wounds and such, chipped tooth, “never since the loss of her dear mother,” Anne Elliott, Do The Macarena, doing the dab, “A little dab’ll do ya,” the fact that Anne Elliott thinks about her mom every time she plays the piano, and that’s how I feel, I mean without the piano, the fact that it’s how I feel all the time, the fact that I haven’t felt loved since Mommy got sick, well, apart from Leo, that is, and Abby, and maybe Phoebe and Ethan, but they’re far away, and Daddy, and Chuck maybe, and Nanya, I suppose, or Anat sometimes, and the chickens, the fact that at least the chickens really do love me, the fact that we kill fifty or sixty billion chickens a year, not me, other people, the fact that Mommy’s illness wrecked my life, the fact that it broke me, the fact that I am broken, heartbroken, heart operation, heart scar, broke, Yueyaquan, Leo, the fact that that mean doctor gave me antibiotics for bronchitis, but so reluctantly, the fact that he seemed to hate me, and I never knew why, but that was years ago, the fact that I sure can hold a grudge, the fact that once in a while I remember too much maybe, Persuasion, plainsong, Schubert part songs, Pleasantville, Plainfield VT, taking the rap, the fact that the best way to tackle grouting is to apply all your frustrations to the task, all your humiliations too, all your flops and failures, flop sweat, slap happy, force, fork, torque, work, energy, statics, dynamics, stress analysis, the fact that statics is the study of bodies in equilibrium, civil engineering, civil rights, civic duty, “Buck up,” the fact that I hate it, the fact that I just slump when Leo’s not here, but there are boarlets, the fact that boarlets exist, the fact that even now, somewhere on earth, there must be some boarlets, sweet boarlets with horizontal stripes in black and brown and white, and tiny, little, miniature-sized trotters, the fact that I just think those horizontal stripes of theirs make life worth living, the fact that my mouth is dry and I’m getting a pimple on my chin, the fact that I still get zits, at my age, the fact that we still have about thirty sealed packing crates in the attic and I have no idea what’s in them, the fact that Stace and I moved in here ten years ago, but I’m too scared of hurting my back lugging all that stuff around, and I’m too busy,
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