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Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:32:37 2019 No.13848028 [Reply] [Original]

>He hasn’t read the book that’s taking the /lit/ world by storm

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:33:15 2019 No.13848032 I'm gay btw

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:33:57 2019 No.13848036 >>13848028 Nobody's read it yet, its 1100 pages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:34:18 2019 No.13848039 I like ducks

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:35:32 2019 No.13848045 >>13848032 Hello Gay, I'm Steven.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:35:58 2019 No.13848051 >>13848028 I read a description and it sounds like quintessential burgerpunk. The rambling thoughts of a bored housewife, holy shit when will burger minimalism finally fucking die

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:36:17 2019 No.13848054 File: 350 KB, 341x499, Penn_Jillette.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13848028 >female author

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:39:25 2019 No.13848071 >>13848028 She’s an angry legbeard Will not read

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:40:09 2019 No.13848077 >>13848028 over 1,000 pages of rambling drivel from a fat neurotic jewish w*man retard? no thnx

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 19:36:14 2019 No.13848430 >>13848028 I'm probably gonna read it. She's only two degrees removed from Joyce; there must be some Platonic emanation making this at least decent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 19:49:59 2019 No.13848480 >Female author You’re god damn right I haven’t read it and I never will

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:14:22 2019 No.13848573 >>13848028 The novel is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, and consists of mostly a single sentence, running over more than 1000 pages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:15:41 2019 No.13848577 Another shill thread, fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:17:10 2019 No.13848579 >>13848577 Kys

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:18:12 2019 No.13848584 >>13848028 I’m about 130 pgs in and it’s pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:18:32 2019 No.13848586 >>13848579 Seething

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:21:48 2019 No.13848602 >>13848045 Hi Steven, hi Gay. Robert here!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:22:16 2019 No.13848605 >writing a 300+ pages novel after Beckett and Bernhard and Bousquet and Lispector I must be naïve, but I do not understand the point.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:25:20 2019 No.13848623 >>13848028 >female author I'll pass

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:26:29 2019 No.13848628 >>13848054 >>13848077 >>13848480 >>13848623 >have sex

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:31:50 2019 No.13848654 Why does this keep getting shilled? Fuck off

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:37:41 2019 No.13848680 >>13848028 >jewish, femoid author >jewish literary prize >thick as shit Yeah I'd rather kill myself than read that crap.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 21:45:08 2019 No.13848991 >>13848654 Reeks of "viral marketing" on the no-name Canadian publishers part. Some publicist cranking out /lit/ posts as part of her 12-hour daily grind for $30kCAD/yr

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 21:56:36 2019 No.13849053 >>13848028 >the fact that This phrase repeated for 212,000 words. Literally longer than Moby dick, but all filler

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:02:28 2019 No.13849080 >>13848605 Lispector is so overrated

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:07:47 2019 No.13849101 >>13848605 Didn’t like Lolita?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:14:23 2019 No.13849134 File: 83 KB, 982x161, ducks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13848054 Nothing wrong with being a female author as long as you don't write like one. Ellmann writes like one. Like a puffy bed with four full pillows on a sunday afternoon

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:31:31 2019 No.13849193 >>13848028 Looks riveting. I just ordered ten copies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:35:03 2019 No.13849216 >>13848028 I tried to the amazon preview but I don't a fucking thing. I don't get it. How did Booker it?

Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:45:11 2019 No.13849255

>>13848028
Man Book notoriously pretends like literature stopped advancing right before Beckett, so I’ve never been wildly impressed with any of their biased selections, but there’s the larger fact that I’m fairly up-to-date with the literary workd and I only learned about this book in connection with the prize as opposed to, say, someone like Sally Rooney’s whose books got a lot of hype up front. Makes me a little suspicious.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:27:44 2019 No.13849488 >>13848028 Is this book actually ABOUT anything? People are just saying it’s a book and it’s good.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 01:28:46 2019 No.13850064

>Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, Open Carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate, not even the Abominable Snowman? When are you allowed to start swearing? With a torrent of consciousness and an intoxicating coziness, Ducks, Newburyport lays out a whole world for you to tramp around in, by turns frightening and funny. A heart-rending indictment of America's barbarity, and a lament for the way we are blundering into environmental disaster, this book is both heresy—and a revolution in the novel.
Sounds like a book written by a confused person. Can't imagine she has anything interesting to say in the novel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 01:30:28 2019 No.13850069 >>13850064 >When are you allowed to start swearing? woman lit

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 01:35:43 2019 No.13850086 It's pretty good, pushing stream of consciousness to new heights. People who can't take women seriously are probably sad because women don't take them seriously.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 01:38:53 2019 No.13850096 >>13849134 these word combinations are gross and they make me feel gross reading them.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 02:03:56 2019 No.13850194

>>13850086
Why doesn't my imaginary woman-hating bitter incel pathology act up when I read Woolf, Shelley, and to some extent McCullers and Emily Bronte? I mostly like women and women mostly like me, but it's obvious that the number of women who have been able to write a really good novel is in the single digits. And there's a certain house style that it seems every published woman must use that makes you feel like you're sitting in a community center creative writing course listening to the journal entries of a bookish librarian who two-hands her coffee mug every morning, and it makes mediocre male writers sound like Hemmingway

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 02:06:36 2019 No.13850201 >>13850096 Yeah, to me it's like a fat woman telling you that the cookies she baked are 'so yummy'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:54:37 2019 No.13850721 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 05:18:14 2019 No.13850775 >>13849080 Cool story bro. There’s a Bolano thread active for you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 05:20:46 2019 No.13850783 >>13850086 It’s not even stream of consciousness though. It just looks like an old artist trying to write her way into the canon with the usual modernist behemoth.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 05:22:16 2019 No.13850790 >>13849134 Holy shit, it’s like it was written by a bot

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 05:24:29 2019 No.13850798 Slow down you guys, i’m not even down with Jerusalem (which is shit but still seems better) !

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 05:47:31 2019 No.13850864

>>13848573
>consists of mostly a single sentence

I have no problem with women being modernists. Woolf is probably the best writer in that style anyway. I do have a problem with the one sentence gimmick. There is nothing you could say at length which would not, if someone was copying down what you said, be transcribed with full stops. You need them. Replacing them with commas only reduces clarity. Removing them is just an annoyance masquerading as experiment

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 05:58:08 2019 No.13850886 >>13848051 holy fuck you really do not know what quintessential means

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:08:32 2019 No.13850905 I usually don't read booker prize winners, a brief history of seven killings being the exception.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:10:40 2019 No.13850911 >>13850905 That’s a mighty questionnable exception right there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:13:32 2019 No.13850915 Women unironically have nothing interesting or insightful to say. The fact that saying this objective truth is even remotely controversial just proves that we are living in the worst possible timeline.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:19:24 2019 No.13850929 >>13849134 The nausea and boredom thing about cats is true though. I always thought it is my body fending off the toxoplasmosis, or me starting to feel it. Actually a good observation by her.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:22:55 2019 No.13850938 >>13848028 >f*male writer no thanks

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:24:13 2019 No.13850944 >>13850929 get a grip brother

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:27:19 2019 No.13850949 >>13850911 I read it before it won, I should have said.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:28:23 2019 No.13850950 I "bought" it. I liked the first paragraph or whatever. The rest looks booooring

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:35:52 2019 No.13850964 I've been thinking about picking up Milkman and The Sellout. Tell me why I shouldn't /lit/?

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:44:10 2019 No.13850994

>>13850964
You shouldn't pick up the Milkman because you have already read about miserable Irish families a hundred times and renaming them "sister-in-law" or "brother's friend" instead of Molly and Paddy doesn't actually change shit.

You should ignore The Sellout because 80% plus of its jokes rely on American political/pop culture references and your ignorance of them will stop it from being funny.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:47:36 2019 No.13851001 can't wait to read another pile of shit shoved down people's throats by the new york literati

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:53:30 2019 No.13851018 I'm tired of those quirky titles. I do not read books with titles that could also be the names of indie bands.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 06:54:44 2019 No.13851024 Worst booker prize winner? My money's on Wolf Hall.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 07:01:22 2019 No.13851041 The Goncourt selection is actually even worse this year. What is this world we’re sharing, brothers ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 13:47:20 2019 No.13852673 >>13848045 Epic.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 15:38:17 2019 No.13853385

>>13850964
You should pick up Milkman because it's hard to find an account of Ireland written by someone with no interest in the political situation and who isn't really asking for your sympathy. The style is an accurate simulation of actual neurotic brain workings without veering at all into lazy stream of consciousness shit.
>>13851024
Nah, The Sea will whup all comers.

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