/lit/ - Literature

>>12841584
Maybe elaborate on this, buddy?

>>12841584
>quite possibly one of the worst days for literature
Supposed to know what OP's on about. Explain, bud.

>>12841584
>“Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. Supermarket is like Naked Lunch meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—if they met at Fight Club.”—Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Ready Player One

oh baby

this book

its nat good

boom

https://youtu.be/jvLOz_mzZ9k

>>12841629
things in the first world just keep getting worse and I don't know how it keeps outdoing itself

>>12841782
Where are the fuckers who told us things were going to get better when we rejected God and Tradition? Are any of them around right now? What do they have to say for themselves? Let's hear them justify this shit.

>>12841604
No.

>>12841629
Reddit must be going insane over this.

>>12841584
read like the first two paragraphs
>take a man's life
>puddle of blood
i can tell you this novel is shit from that alone. i would bet someone good money that there is a scene in the novel where he splashes water up on his face, looks into the mirror above the sink, and punches his reflection because, guess what? he is broken inside. i think its funny people think this wubba wubba lublub whyte rapper has anything worthwhile to say

>>12841804
I don't have to go to Church or read this book so that seems like a pretty good deal.

>>12841674
fantano is such a dipshit

>>12841826
Wonder if someone killed his wife?

>>12841826
Is this the irish guy with bacon on his face?

>>12841629
>Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Ready Player One
He can't even go two sentences without a pop culture reference.

>>12841804
bill nye is off dancing to some dyke and gendered ice cream scoops, dawkins is probably recovering from the a stroke.

>>12841804
>Where are they?
Laughing all the way to the bank

>>12841804
Day by day.

Well-being is becoming better, wealth is making us merrier.

>>12843218
On paper, we should all be bright, bubbly, and fulfilled NPCs.

>>12841584
does anyone have an excerpt?

>>12841584
cool cover tho
looks like mao

>>12843262
https://books.google.com/books/about/Supermarket.html?id=AQmDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
The first paragraph tries desperately hard to sound edgy or shocking. But honestly I could only imagine the protagonist delivering this dull pointless prose in a droning monotone

Read the 1st page and got the fuck out of there. "The blood smelled metallic." No fucking shit. Blood has iron in it. The writing is as bland as the lyrics on his album.

>>12841629
Omg my favorite author!!!!1!!11!

Heh, not quite, kiddo...

>>12845197
How is that bad? Bland can be good. Stoner was pretty bland.

>>12842044
First thought that popped into my head too, lmao.

Butterfly I know you are rarely genuine, but I’m sure you can tell I’m an honest soul.


How old are you? :3

>>12841859
I miss his meme channel, it was actually pretty funny. In a better timeline he's working on MDE skits with Sam instead of stabbing him in the back :(

>>12845219
Haven't read stoner but I've read Cement by Feodor Gladkov which is a socialist realist novel. The prose was blunt but not bland. The writing never conjured up images of someone who had no self-awareness. The problem with Supermarket is that there's an abundance of cliches, metaphors that don't fit, and awkward syntax. His writing is bland because he's not creating anything original in his writing. It's derivative just like his album. I'd copy and paste excerpts but unfortunately I can't on mobile. Also, explain how "bland" can be good.

lol

>>12845322
fuck it has the Nintendo switch controller there too

>>12845322
I'll never understand adults buying funko pops.

>>12845297
When did Fanta backstab Mr. Hyde?

>>12841826
based

>>12845706
I'll never understand funko pops in general and I collect comic book figurines.

>>12846173
Maybe it was deserved, but after he got outed as a alt right memelord by Ezra Levant he did some talk about how Sam acted in that one interview he did with him, but Sam was just doing his gonzo thing that he's known for

>>12847358
>"i was afraid of him i couldn't stop him from acting that way"
what a pussy, lmao

>>12841804
cringe. This post is only redeemable if it’s a discord tranny false flag.

>>12841584
after that
>WHO CAN RELATE?! (WHOO!)
horseshit Logic dove headfirst into a growing pile of artists i try very hard to forget.

i'll probably read the first page or two out of curiosity, if i'm honest

>>12841804
You don't even know who they are, who are you to place demands on them? You are screaming at the sidewalk instead of looking inward

>>12841629
>naked lunch
>one flew over the cuckoos nest
>fight club

>>12841584
I read that as Bobby Hill for a second.

No one's gonna post some cherry-picked prose?

>>12843537
stopped at the first paragraph

>>12843218
i want to box steven pinker

>It dripped onto the floor from my fingertips like a faucet when a child doesn’t shut it off after brushing their teeth.

>>12841629
oh god, this quote is real

oh god, "bobby hall" is logic

oh dear god, i thought this was just /lit/ and/or 4chan overreacting as usual. what the fuck

>>12845317
It's difficult to describe bland. I assumed you meant something that lacks the verbal flourishes of say a Nabokov or a Dickens. By that assumption most of the Russians are bland. So yeah...i dunno ...i like bland.

But i hate cliches. I agree with you on that.

>>12841804
>someone unironically typed this
yikes from me dog.

>>12841584
>He was born to Robert Bryson Hall, an African-American Maryland native, and a Caucasian mother.
This is why we need more accurate racial categories, this guy is like a quadroon (<1/4 African) and would just be considered a wigger if you saw him on the street

No no no no no no

>>12850347
He definitely read and re-read and re-re-re-read all of that over and over in a slow monotone voice, perfectly inflecting each and every word until he convinced himself it was good writing, not for a second realizing that it looks like complete shit to somebody who hasnt dictated it internally 10,000 times.

>>12850347
*scratch record* "yeah...that's me! you're probably not wondering at all how i got here but imma tell you and bore yo ass anyway"

>>12850347
>>12841584

Ok so this is clearly terrible.

Why is it such a disaster? is it popular? is it getting any praise anywhere? whats the big deal?

>>12850497
It’s written by one of the world’s most popular rappers. It will be a bestseller in no time.

>>12850497
This. Who gives a shit? Anybody who knows anything about music already knows logic is basically retarded, nobody other than his equally braindead fans are gonna buy or like this book so it doesnt really matter.

If you're really concerned about bad books selling well because of the author's fame, I hate to break it to you but that ship has really sailed at this point.

>>12841804
>He hasn’t taken the Nietzsche pill

>>12850145
fuck off nietzsche

>>12843537
That first page or so is so amateurish that it has given me hope for my own writing.

>>12850167
>a child
>their teeth
BASIC FUCKING SHIT, NIGGER.

>>12851319
?

>>12851530
Not him, but pretty sure it's supposed to be his or her not theirs

>>12843285
yeah that's what I thought when I saw this at my local shop

didn't realize it was a logic novel lmao

>>12850347

>>12850337
Looks more like an octaroon or dodecaroon to me.

>>12841819
t. David Lynch

>>12845322
>soldering equipment
>>12843537
>the blood on my hands smelt metallic
There are about a hundred more interesting ways to write that sentence.

>>12852368
oh I thought you were making a real critique but ur just complaining that you don't get to dictate the direction of language

>>12841584

>>12853060
Big Oof To Be Honest

>>12841629
Lmao. Literally every sentence this guy writes is a pop culture reference

>>12847358
Lol I remember a little of what he said. He said that he was laughing nervously whenever sam made an edgy joke.

>>12850347
Lmao so fucking edgy

>>12850347
>I think about shit like that all the time
Whoa, this guy, is like, dark man...

>>12853060
Pretty great writing. Who wrote that? Reads like Roth.

>>12850868
>he cant just laugh at a thing without getting mad at people laughing at it
Autist

>>12851310
Why? It got printed because the author is a best selling artist. Unless you plan on being insanely famous any time soon, why would this give you hope for your own writing

>>12853036
Again I'm not the guy that posted that I'm just explaining it to you. It's the editor's fault not him.

>>12841584
Does anybody know any fanfiction websites? I've been going through some of the excerpts from this book and it honestly reads like edgy fanfic. I wanted to compile some quotes side by side of excerpts from this book and the fanfic sites and make a little "guess which is logic and which is fanfic" meme

>>12853060
was this ghostwritten by mnmdr?

>>12853287
Check Wattpad for elementary school lvl writing (ie. confusing "their", "there", and "they're."). AO3 is another fanfiction website but more mature and you can sort out the tags easier.

If it gets substantially more 12-17 year olds into books it's an overall plus for the industry. The downside is that then it'll be called the 21st century Catcher in the Rye for all eternity.

>>12853392
Kind of funny how I'm actually reading the Catcher in the Rye right now.

>>12852464
KEK

>>12843218

we are hurtling towards ecological doom for which capitalism nor rationality have any commensurate response

wow this is fucking ghastly
from about page 7

this is the literary equivalent of vaporwave or lofi

>>12853461
Authors who write books where the narrative suddenly talks directly to the reader just comes off as desperate to break the fourth wall because it's what all the other "cool" authors are doing (mainly just YA).

you can read a preview on google books

>>12853385
Thanks man

>>12853060
Thanks for highlighting the passage

>>12853461
Oh my god

>>12852974
How would you have written that sentence?

>>12853461
>If you realize what you're literally doing this moment, you won't actually be living in this world I'm painting for you.
Yup, that's what happened. Still a good rapper, tho.

>>12853623
jesus christ this is actually hard to believe

>>12841804
Yikes

>>12853798
>There was a metallic tinge to the blood on my hands, one that stung my nostrils and churned my stomach
Or something, I don't know. In a way that doesn't feel like half a sentence, which is my gripe for the rest of that page.

>>12853844
Tinge doesn't convey as much as smell. Churning stomach makes it sound like he's disgusted, but he's not

>make a friend at the airport
>he's on the same flight as you and shares your interests
>you are sitting together in the same row
>main character complains that a random woman won't sit between the two of them
huh?

>>12853890
kek

>>12853461
How is this even humor?

>>12853461

not too many cringe passages in the middle of the book, but they exist.

Holy shit why do these authors use so many similes?

>>12854261
they're valley girls

>>12853623
Does this dude have any concept of real life?

>>12850337
what the fuck, I always thought he's just regular white, he doesn't look black at all. Just like Eric Andre, who looks like a Jew, but considers himself a black person, I thought he's some wigger before I read the Wikipedia article on him

>>12853469
>>12853461
>>12853623
That's impressively bad.

>>12853485
Fucking what. Maple syrup and coffee creamer have completely different viscosities.