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>> No.15792603 [View]
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>spend 30 years of huffing your own farts

>> No.15620303 [View]
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>Robert Alterin his review of the book in The New Republic wrote:

>"Some may seize on it as a postmodern masterpiece, but it is a bloated monster of a book. [...] The bloat is a consequence of sheer adipose verbosity and an unremitting condition of moral and intellectual flatulence. [...] The abjection of (Gass') hero seems less lived than written. It is an act of ventriloquism: behind the repulsive, potentially fascist narrator stands his critic, the novelist, presumably committed to humane, democratic values. But those values are nowhere intimated in the book, and what emerges is a kind of inadvertent complicity between author and protagonist. The supposedly critical novel becomes an enactment of bad faith."[5]

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So pretty much if you're not a liberal you suffer from a pathology. This is Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality in novel form. Bravo, Gass. Bravo.

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William H Gass apparently took 26 years to write The Tunnel, but my god what a shit book it is, despite all that time invested. It's clear when Gass was writing it that most sentences were created almost purely for the way they phonetically sounded, the meter and alliteration. Full of shit like
>Time was a fellow traveler
It's meaningless. He used his brainpower to lay out phonetically pleasing phrases with no brainpower left to put any discernible fucking meaning into what he writes, because not even he knows. This is the mark of amatuerish writing, and The Tunnel is riddled with it. Read the "worst novel ever," Irene Iddesleigh, and you will be shocked how similar the style is in many instances. Sure, The Tunnel is full of powerful and masterful moments, but only when Gass has a clear mind to go beyond phonetics and actually develop meaning and a narrative. You quite literally cannot refute this post.

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It was too hard for me. I Will return to It eventually.

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Is this an actual underrated book worth buying, or is this another machination of memes?

>> No.15116476 [View]
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What am I in for?

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Who here has read The Tunnel by Gass and what did you think?im having trouble finding excerpts online so it’s hard to get a feel of what to expect

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>>14020185
Look no further.

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This book is a monster desu. What do you frens think of it?

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Thoughts?

>> No.13518322 [View]
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Has anyone read it? Is it worth reading?

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13478647

Is this worth reading?

>> No.12597581 [View]
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what do we think /lit/?

>> No.12559197 [View]
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What the fuck was his deal?

>> No.12544183 [View]
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Bought this what am i in for

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bought this what am i in for?

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ahem

>> No.12532237 [View]
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Bought this what am i in for?

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Is there a more demanding book out there? I feel like I need a break after 5 pages. It’s just pure, unadulterated poison. Like Notes from Underground on steroids. Has anyone actually finished it?

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the parts about mad meg dying affected me more than anything I've read in a long time

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based and redpilled? yay or nay

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thoughts?

>> No.12413411 [View]
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>American literature is ba-

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