/lit/ - Literature

>>1779716
I'd like to know this as well. I'm going to read one of his books at some point.

>>1738771
No problem, unfortunately I've only read some of the stories in The Shell Collector as well so I can't comment.

As long as we have a contemporary fiction thread has anyone read this? It's getting Danielewski comparisons but it seems to be a different breed from synopsis. I haven't been out to skim over a physical copy but I'm intrigued.

>>1738791
Some people have radically different opinions but I personally can't read Lin. I like his ideas and he's a great "conceptual" writer but the stories themselves are terrors to read. The difference between Lin and Wallace writing about ennui is one of them has the aspirations to do so with good prose, with clever stylistic bits and imaginative allegory that help clarify or pinpoint the construction of boredom itself. The other just writes situations they've been bored in.