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This is unironically the Ulysses of our generation. It may not be as good as Ulysses, but it's a signficant formal achievement nonetheless. And the fact that the author is not even American makes it all the more astonishing.

>> No.15214057

>And the fact that the author is not even American makes it all the more astonishing.
why?

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>> No.15214082

(((Ellmann)))

>> No.15214104

>>15214057
It encapsulates the inner life of an midwestern American mother of four so fucking well. It's like she is one. One of the most astute psychological portraits ever made, up there with Julien Sorel and Emma Bovary. Lucy is possessed by the daemon, anons. Bloom would be proud.

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>>15214050
No.

>> No.15214117

>>15214109
her dad is the preeminent Joyce biographer, fuck off

>> No.15214155

do you think it's duckbitch herself who posts these threads? i forget her name--i don't recall ever knowing it.

hey, i've already rated it a 1/5 stars on goodreads. what more do you hope to accomplish here?

>> No.15214177

>>15214155
>hey, i've already rated it a 1/5 stars on goodreads. what more do you hope to accomplish here?

You think I made this post with people like you in mind? Go choke to death on a fucking cock.

>> No.15214178

>the original the fact that actually put it on the list
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestuk.html

>> No.15214185

>>15214178
>https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestuk.html
BASED

>> No.15214204

>>15214050
This book is so bad that when people posted quotations here I thought they were jokes that /lit/ was writing to mock it

>> No.15214225

>>15214117
So what? Her writing is shit.

>> No.15214239

>>15214177
chill out lucy we're just having a giggle

>> No.15214270

>>15214109
>t. has no idea how the publishing industry works

>> No.15214297

>>15214050
Can someone post an excerpt from this novel that is actually compelling and not just inane rambling?

>> No.15214333

>>15214297
It’s the combined effect of the entire narrative that the novel should be judged by. If I posted part of the Sound and the Fury during Quentin’s section with 0 context you would say the same thing, that it is inane, and yet that novel is a masterpiece.

>> No.15214367

>>15214333
It’s overrated. Sound and The Fury, it’s fine, hard to give a fuck about the characters

>> No.15214373

>>15214333
I guess I’ll take your word for it, I don’t plan on reading this anytime soon

>> No.15214393

>>15214050
She’s not the first to do the single run-on sentence in a novel bro

>> No.15214420

>>15214333
Nonsense, you can absolute sum up the entire experience with a few passages.

>the fact that I think he’s a big bully, coward, mean guy, third rate, just like Trump, “Sad!”, the fact that he could be a lot of places by now, this shooter, not Trump, though Trump gets around too, golfing and holding rallies, the fact that they can’t get him to stop holding rallies, the fact that he goes for the adulation, bigly, ululation, elation, election, erection, cracks, failed bridge, broken, flaccid, the fact that he could be right outside our house right now, the selfie killer, not Donald Trump, I hope, the fact that maybe the selfie killer, Trump, and the lion are outside our house, help, the fact that I don’t know which would be worse

>> No.15214431

>>15214420
this woman has dreamed about trump fucking her

>> No.15214434

>>15214177
>bitch confirmed self-promoting authorfaggot
>bitch mad
lol u mad

>> No.15214520

>>15214050
She is American. She was born in America to two American parents. Dumb cunt just did her uni degree in England then stayed there and applied for citizenship. She's as British as an immigrant from Pakistan.

>> No.15214561

>>15214420
No way that's real

>> No.15214581

>>15214561
It's like 1200 pages of unbroken text. It's highly likely that is real

>> No.15214618

>>15214104
this

>> No.15214628

>>15214104
>It encapsulates the inner life of an midwestern American mother of four so fucking well.
That makes me want to read it even less

>> No.15214661

>>15214628
ur loss

>> No.15214681

>>15214104
Nah, more like what some delusional liberal's fantasy is of an average American.

>> No.15214904

>>15214104
>Lucy is a mother of one
Stolen parental valor. She doesn't know what it's like.
t. parent of two kings and three queens

>> No.15214941

>a book writeen by a woman

omg, lol

>> No.15214957

Imagine self-promoting your book as Ulysses 2.0 holy shit the level of hubris. Ulysses crams millenia of literature into that single text. You can’t tell me this book is that. I wont believe it until I tally it as posted on this board for 1000 consecutive days in a row.

>> No.15215336

OP literally read the top of a Wikipedia article instead of the book.
>A critic writing for Kirkus Reviews said the book was an example of "literary experimentation that, while surely innovative, could have made its point in a quarter the space", and compared it with Ulysses for its size and word association games

>> No.15215344

>>15214104
Are you a Midwestern mother of four?
>>15214904
Are your kids black or are you mocking this meme?

>> No.15215367

>>15214104
As a midwestern American father of three who read it with his wife, it does not even remotely encapsulate it. She hated it, felt she couldn't relate at all.

>> No.15215392

This book is shit. Disregard any praise of it on here. It is only from marketers. Ignore this post at your own peril.

>> No.15215509

>>15215392
This. Manufactured garbage

>> No.15215510

You think the fact that is anywahere near ulysses? The fact that you even dared make the assertion, the fact that you believe something as played out as stream of consciousness is avant guarde, the fact that the author is an industry plant that used her connections to shill her book endlessly the fact that this is some sort of achievment in your eyes the fact that the entire fucking novel reads like this post makes this thread one of the biggest insults to literary history I have ever seen. Never compare shit like this to a brilliant mind like joyce, who worked his ass off his entire life to do what he did, with nothing but faith in his own intellect and love for his family to keep him going. What joyce did was daring, that was revolution, that was innovation. But this? This is lazy undergrad shit

>> No.15215699

>>15215510
Ulysses probably used his connections to get famous tbf

>> No.15215865

The meme book of 2019. What a horrendous year for books. Almost makes me miss Tao Lin.

>> No.15215891

>>15214904
why do you talk like a cumtown bit

>> No.15215904

I grew up near Newburyport mass, lost my virginity in that town.

>> No.15215905

>>15214109
ressentiment

>> No.15216006

>>15214050

As if a generational work could be written in America right now.

>> No.15216146

>>15214104
So is this book a fair representation? Or is it just another attempt by a bigoted, metropolitan kike to pathologize a tired caricature of what they imagine white, Midwestern culture is like?

t. Midwesterner with three siblings.

>> No.15216445

>>15216146
you're stupid as shit if thats what you think writrs of dense literary fiction set out to do

>> No.15216567

>>15216445
Then what are they doing?

>> No.15216717

>>15216567
humanizing, empathizing, romanticizing mundanity if anything