/lit/ - Literature

>>19063641
it was good. fuck lit snobs

>>19063656
Yup. Unlike book of the new sun it actually deserves some of the praise it gets. Still the mystery is not as big as some people make it out to be and pale fire did it first.

>>19063656
Yep. This and Call of the Crocodile are the two best modern horror novels. So glad I listened to the rec threads and read this book.

>>19063656
>fuck lit snobs
People actually give two fucks about some anonymous people's opinion? Holy fuck that's pathetic. Just read what you want.

>>19063641
This is not for you.

Fuck you rëdditor it's shit

>>19063656
if it makes me a lit snob, then fine, i dislike it. but i wouldnt consider any part except the fast sections a real page turner. its too demanding for a "non-snob" kind of read and sparcely gripping. i hope someone who has read it more recently can confirm this but it has long "tf are you on about" sections there to pad it out so the book looks the way it does. on another note, it is surprising how many elements it shares with pale fire whilst being very dissimilar

>>19063656
This

>>19063641
I read this in HS and re-read some of the back matter recently. Is the novel worth revisiting?

>>19063691
CotC is so bad I have to assume you're the author self-shilling. It's a bad forced meme. Too bad... the author could have mad it purposefully bad or purposefully good. Instead it's just ignorable.

>>19064456
Very cringe, lol.

>>19064552
>sparsely gripping
I remember a fair amount of it being interesting

> i hope someone who has read it more recently
gdi I guess I'll just re-read it over the next week

>>19063691
Call of the Crocodile is worth reading solely because of the ending. People shit on it just like House of Leaves. Ignore them. They will spam their nonsense no matter what. Just read the books you like.

>>19064771
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR_n8win2Vs&t=8s

>>19064771
No it isn't lol. Complete trash. Completely forced. Typo and solecism filled trashola. LOL.

Anyone who read the free epub feels the same. It's botched, totally.

>>19064784
See >>19064779
This guy explains why your posts are false. According to the video Call of the Crocodile is as revolutionary as Cormac McCarthy.

>>19064793
No shit. Why do you think it's completely taken over this board consistently for the past year? I go on /x/ all the time and people even talk about it there because it goes into so much detail.

>>19064793
watched it when it came out lol total garbage i hope no one gives that guy any money it's so fucking lazy it's not even nilbog bad it's just a cashgrab ... but that's very obvious to most people ... as i'm sure you know by now lolololol

>>19064808
This. Notice that channel has a FULL reading of the book on it KEK. Sad, but everyone knows it's a disaster worse than Wuldun

>>19064819
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06d2F7Qe_1M&t=20s

There are lots of videos.

>>19064808
If you read the book you'd be talking about more than just "It's garbage" or "lololol."

>>19064808

>>19064832
yawn... the videos are the author's... very obviously

I read the book it's complete and utter laziness and an attempt at a cashgrab. My guess is he was pressured into getting a job by his parents and came up with this scam... and it isn't working lol though he is pointing to it and showing them but it's all astroturf. Sad.

Ok enough attention for this loser i'm done and he's finished lol

>>19064919
>yawn... the videos are the author's... very obviously

Clearly not. The guy making the videos doesn't give them all high ratings. Confirmed for not even watching.

>>19064981
Yeah these kinds of argument derail shitposters like >>19064919 this guy.

>>19065001
>>19064981
>no new posters in thread
kek ngmi dad gonna find out!

>>19065010
You are jealous of F Gardner. Nobody’s gonna shill your book.

>>19064779
good video

>>19063641
reading it i kept thinking about how brian evenson would tell the same story but 1000x scarier in 30 pages or less

>>19065619
>scarier
It's not meant to be scary, the book is sort of a love letter

>>19063656
fpbp