/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10546003]

You just published your novel and it's on shelves everywhere. What are the critics saying about it?

[Anonymous No.10546012]

>>10546003
>I never thought I'd see such clever and eloquent use of the word 'cuck'

[Anonymous No.10546014]

>>10546003
...no discernible talent.

[Anonymous No.10546017]

>>10546003

>I liked this book

That'd be cool.

[Anonymous No.10546044]

Overtly accessible drivel down to the last sentence.

9/10

[Anonymous No.10546054]

>>10546003
"Fucking A WHITE male"
"No plot, not characters, not even a setting! This isnt literature"
"Ayyo what the FUCK did i just read. White nigga finna tryna turn my brain white man dindu need no likeable characters!"

[Anonymous No.10546060]

>>10546003
"...highly disturbing yet poignant"

[Anonymous No.10546326]

>>10546003
>"a fever dream"
>"a riveting tour de force"
>"at once lyrical and unflinching"
>"The cum-eating scenes will have you laughing out of your seat"

[Anonymous No.10546328]

Essentially a mishmash of Dazai, Kafka and Camus, the author wasn't able to enforce his own non-melancholic voice trough his literary influences.

[Anonymous No.10546336]

"i only bought the book because i felt sorry for him"

[Anonymous No.10546366]

>>10546003
Something something nihilistic with a wicked sense of humor
Sorry phone posting and my meme storage facility is back in mom’s basement

[Anonymous No.10546385]

>>10546003
>Holy.....I want more.....

[Anonymous No.10546388]

>>10546003
>a tour de force

[Anonymous No.10546398]

>>10546003
>This promising debut novel from the enfant terrible of new Canadian Letters is a unique combination of history, diary, memory, comedy and campus / sexual politics.

[Anonymous No.10546568]

bloated, but fun

[Anonymous No.10546634]

>To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Anon's Magnum Opus, My Diary Desu. The existentialism is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of wikipedia articles and DFW reaction images most of the jokes will go over a typical reader’s head.

[Anonymous No.10546641]

>>10546003
>Enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.10546644]

The sentences are too long. A little too abtuse.

[Anonymous No.10546648]

>>10546060
nihilistic with a dark sense of humor.... nothing personnel DISTURBING but also I want to suck his cock, his trenchcoat is so cool

[Anonymous No.10546656]

>>10546003
>A modern day Nietzsche: It's not really philosophy but /pol/ will lap up the clever aphorisms

[Anonymous No.10546701]

>Ugh no world building, the characters were like, sooooo unrelatable, and it's just white men talking and talking. can you just not!?

[Anonymous No.10546711]

>>10546003
The New York Times refuses to review my book because it's too right-wing.

[Anonymous No.10546836]

>>10546003
"Masterful"
- The New York Times

"Tour de force"
- Huffington Post

"Exhilarating"
- Guardian

I can't wait

[Anonymous No.10546849]

>it's ok
>yeah, fun read
>good if you've time to kill on a bus or somethin

[Anonymous No.10546850]

>>10546003
not enough women of color

[Anonymous No.10546860]

>>10546003
>Tolkien-esque
Or some other comparison to popular fantasy works because that's the only way /sffg/ is ever reviewed, by comparing and contrasting it to other fantasy

[Anonymous No.10546867]

>Clearly written by a virgin

[Anonymous No.10546954]

>>10546326
What does unflinching mean in this context?

[Anonymous No.10546987]

>>10546954
Nothing really. It's a pithy idiom beloved by pseud book reviewers.

[Anonymous No.10546999]

>>10546003
Powerful and brave

[Anonymous No.10547002]

>The new rebels are here
>Oh how banal
>So this is what DFW meant

[Anonymous No.10547003]

>>10546999
>brave
you have to be either a woman or a minority or lgbt for book reviewers to call your book "brave"

[Anonymous No.10547009]

>>10546003
>was the clock rape scene nessicary?

[Anonymous No.10547049]

>>10546003
the author has some extreme mommy issues and is likely insecure about his penis

[Anonymous No.10547096]

>>10546003
If it's on the shelves everywhere, then the publisher has invested a lot in its success, which means a large marketing budget, which means all the critics love it.

[Anonymous No.10547162]

Uses "Rule-Of-Cool" like a toddler with a red cape.

[Anonymous No.10547207]

>>10547003
Are white men exempt from bravery?

[Anonymous No.10547311]

>>10547207
I think we've just waxed poetically on our bravery so much that the market is tired of it.
>Inb4
I don't think it's good it would just make sense to me that the pendulum swings. There have been past eras of promotion of the Noble Savage and stuff b4 too so permanency of taste is not something I ascribe too.

[Anonymous No.10547432]

>>10546003
My biggest fear is they'll all go "wow this guy's really disturbed and sad" and I'll have repressed it so hard that I won't be aware of it