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What does /lit/ think of Blake Butler?

>> No.2212820

hiptster

>> No.2212825
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2212825

I want to like him but he's a bad writer. Good structural ideas filled with empty, imprecise words words words descriptions.

>> No.2212827

he has a badass twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/blakebutler

>> No.2212830

>>2212819
>>2212827

Go to bed Blake

>> No.2212835

>>2212825
Is this book any good? I've heard a lot about it.

>> No.2212836

>>2212830
Literally every time a contemporary author is mentioned on /lit/, it is that author, no exceptions

>> No.2212837

>>2212836
when chat on 4chan u chattin with tha stars!

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>>2212835
Yes and no. It's in turn brilliant and horrifying maybe less for its story but rather to see the (talented) author himself dedicate his life to it as "his work." I believe you can read the first page of it and have a pretty good idea of whether you'll like it or not. Find a copy to read browse before getting it.

>> No.2212849

According to the lofty and prestigious literary critics at /lit/, every single writer who is still alive is an unskilled self-shilling hipster.

>> No.2212860

>>2212849
i do kinda feel like that tho except for DFW oh wait