/lit/ - Literature

>>19580084
Serotonin was pretty based.

>>19530253
Serotonin was good. I think he just filters libtards.

>>19506509
Serotonin is good so far; 3/4 of the way through (probably finish it off tonight). The first book I've read by him and I'm going to check out his others. I think he filters a lot of libtards and it's actually easy to see why.

I can only go off of Serotonin--the main character is a high-earning civil servant; a member of the privileged upper-middle class one would usually associate with the liberal elite. However, instead of reflecting a contrived and entirely theoretical solidarity (i.e. poverty of empathy) for the working people and parroting the ideological consensus of his political class, he's in an existential malaise characterized by genuine self-loathing. He's symbolically (and literally, due to antidepressants) impotent to act according to any conscience so he drops out of society and bares (a somewhat detached) witness to the plight of working class farmers (the main one of which is a member of the aristocracy who chose to take up a working class life style and got hung out to dry for it by the emergence of globalist technocrats).

Anyway, I think the filter is there because the general liberal reader is an NPC. The main character is a member of the elite they aspire to be a part of but he's entirely disaffected by being aware of the larger sociopolitical currents he's submerged in. Instead of falling back on a contrived solidarity backed by a political ideology he just reflects on being impotent. He's been practising his shooting and there's a protest, I'm at the rising action part of the book so I can't give a final thought on it yet—the climax is probably going to be important in giving a full take. .

Also, as far as I can tell people saying his books are for incels are retarded. Pretty shallow take and it means you're either a midwit/pseud or didn't have enough to bring to the table in order to provide a decent criticism of his work. But, like I said, maybe I have to read his other books—as far as Serotonin is concerned that take is stupid.

>>19494243
No.