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You *need* more?

>> No.22554025

>>22554019
Yes, I would like refried beans with that, gracias

>> No.22554031

>>22554019
i should never have said 'all you need' because i will never forget

>> No.22554071

Are you the anon who seethes about The Netanyahus?

>> No.22554080

>>22554071
...oh, that makes sense

>> No.22554089

>>22554071
Not OP btw, but is there actually someone who seethes about it? I’ve honestly never even seen it discussed. It’s such a forgettable book that I don’t think it arouses much emotion either towards hating or praising it.

>> No.22554124

>>22554089
There is one anon who does and he general says that Witz is the only good work by Cohen. He also fails to respond anytime I or anyone else attempts to discuss the book with him in any depth. I found The Netanyahus to be quite good and suspect I would love it if I knew more about Israel and the Netanyahus.

>> No.22554288

>>22554019
Witz is republished late next year, and I am not sure whether to be excited or not, Joshua Cohen being as hit and miss as he is. The Netanyahus and Moving Kings were great novels but Book of Numbers and Four New Messages were lacking a certain human element.

>> No.22554334

Witz > Book of Numbers > The Netanyahus > Moving Kings

>> No.22554372

>>22554334
Witz even alienated those faggots in goodreads that fetishise the cerebral onanistic experiments of Joseph McElroy, Arno Schmidt, John Barth, etc,

>> No.22554376

>>22554372
Good

>> No.22554397
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22554397

>>22554288
>Netanyahus
>good

>> No.22554416

>>22554288
Witz intrigues me, many seem to go to the extremes with it; the one anon who hates The Netanyahus says Witz is the only time Cohen is human but then you get stuff like >>22554372. I am looking forward to reading it.

>> No.22555443

>>22554019
Dalkey Archive / Deep Vellum has managed to fuck up every order I've made.

>> No.22556014

>>22554019
Bad books that are propped up to be good because their authors were pretentious midwits. That's enough to know the kind of guy who likes them.