/lit/ - Literature

>>11602441
>female author
Dropped

I haven't even read the old IJ

>woman named Chandler

>>11602441
Is it any good? The Goodreads reviews are really mixed

A sprawling, genre-defying epic set in a dystopian metropolis plagued by dragons, this debut about what it’s like to be young in a very old world is pure storytelling pleasure

In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis’ last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs.

The Sky Is Yours is incredibly cinematic, bawdy, rollicking, hilarious, and utterly unforgettable, a debut that readers who loved Cloud Atlas, Super Sad True Love Story, and Blade Runner will adore. (less)

>>11602518
Its obviously dogshit

>>11602518

"Eisenhower Sharkey is the oldest man in Torchtown. He’s forty-three years old: a native, yes, but with firsthand memories of those inmates of yore, the fabled ancient dead. Sharkey’s lost most of the hair on his head, but none of it on his chest. Or back. He shaves twice a day. He had a mustache for a week twenty years ago. One of his swillers made the mistake of asking if it was ironic. He shot the swiller twice in the chest, dumped his body onto the roof of a burning building, and looted his apartment. Then he shaved the mustache. He’s been clean-shaven ever since."

>>11602540
Oh..

>>11602441
Chandler is a fag name

“Whoa,” he murmurs. His eyes are shut. “I can’t believe it. We just fucked.”
The girl ties a bow around a lock of his chest hair.
“Yes, fucked,” she says with approval.
Ripple coughs noisily, wheezes. A few yards away, a gull squawks in answer. “I mean, I can believe it, but for you, it must be like discovering fire or something. Well, you’ve already got fire, I guess, but you know what I mean. It’s like an alien came down from Mars and ate your planet’s face. Only, you know, in a good way, obviously.”
The girl adds another bow to his sideburn. She tries to tie his neckbeard, but the stubble there is too short.
“And I mean, not just once, even. That was three times in under two hours. I was like, ‘Let’s go, wench,’ and you were like, ‘Bring it, son.’ That was hot. That was so hot I didn’t care about the bird watching us. This is the best day of my life.”
The girl admires her handiwork. “You’re pretty.”
“I bet I hit your G-spot. I’m pretty sure. I struck oil the first time I drilled.”

calling something the new Infinite Jest is a 100% way to get me to not read it, considering it's been the favorite book of pretentious english major freshman for years

>>11602556
You sound like a fat tumblr bitch

Why do mods leave this up but take down that math thread about Achilles and the turtle? That shit was interesting. There's nothing of value to be gained here.

>>11602561
you sound like a pretentious redditor who can't stand their favorite work being criticized

>>11602572
You sound like a prolapsed anus sputtering shit out of your mouth constantly

>>11602569

>why is a thread about a novel up on a literature board instead of a philosophy thread with no direct connection to a specific written work