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The fact that

>> No.15611422
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>>15611419
Masterpiece

>> No.15611456

>>15611419
I don't care that it was written by a woman, it's pretty good if you can get into it.

>> No.15611474

>>15611456
Care to elaborate?

>> No.15611475

>>15611419
>The fact that a discreet proportion of the population make up 13% of its body but account for 50% of the crime.
>The fact that inhuman globo-capitalistic entities deem it right to not only ship and sacrifice large swaths of the fighting populace like day-old produce to play their 3D chess, but that they should feel the need to ingratiate themselves into the consumer base and appeal to their most transient, momentary desires.
>The fact that people would gladly sacrifice life, liberty, and justice to appease this Mammon amalgamation in this goddamn Brave New World hellscape they’ve fostered with their indoctrination tactics.
>The fact that the world is a fuck.

>> No.15611491

>>15611475
epic le race science my friend! based and groyp-pilled! you are truly of the superior race :)

>> No.15611496

>>15611474
I'm a sucker for long, rolling paragraphs and hypnotic sentence structure (which is the aim of the repetition). If that is not your speed, you won't like it. Also inserts her liberal politics sometimes, but not so much that it spoils the book and is kind of the point, as it is written from the perspective of a suburban white woman. Not hard to get past though.

>> No.15611514

>>15611491
Started out as a funpost but I got mad somewhere in the middle.

>> No.15611523

>>15611496
Oy vey. I also like the long ones, I’ve been avoiding this one but I might have to give it a shot...

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This is now an Ubik thread
Anyone have a good interpretation of the ending? I think it's got something to do with Chip and co. AND Runciter being in half-life, with Jory manipulating realities for Runciter as well.

>> No.15611530

>>15611491
Is groyper like a big thing now?
I haven’t been on /pol/ in a while, why is everyone talking about groyper now?

>> No.15611560

>>15611530
only if you're a white supremacist

>> No.15611590

>>15611419
the fact that she got away with marketing this book as if it was actually written in one sentence and the fact that people are falling for her shameless gimmick

>> No.15611608

>>15611530
it's mildly popular among the zoomer set, it's basically nick fuentes harassing charlie kirk and trying to force a more paleocon-ish perspective into the "Young Republicans" garbage

paul gottfried was interviewed about them on youtube a couple weeks ago and said iirc that he finds them vulgar and isn't interested in them specifically but is always interested in a gadfly to the neocon establishment

counter-currents also has a decent article about the groyper phenomenon and its utility for normalizing ethnonationalism

>> No.15611630

>>15611422
ulysses isnt contemporary

>> No.15611642

>>15611630
ulysses is more contemporary and relevant than most of the books that have been published in the last 10 years

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>>15611419
>The fact that she completed my Der Logische Aufbau der Welt

>> No.15612052

>>15611530
as usual /pol/ filters memes to redditards who mutate it into some weird crap that barely resembles the original thing

>> No.15612061

>>15611642
the absolute state of this board

>> No.15612069

>>15611422
you think you're a pro memer but the fact you left out Bottom's Dream shows you're actually a pseud

>> No.15612083

>>15611491
This but sincerely and it's a good thing

>> No.15612142

>>15611422
JR is better than Recognitions.

>> No.15612159

>>15612069
Sounds gay af

>> No.15612167

>>15612069
>>15612159
>Bottom's Dream
Ok when you take it entirely out of context it does sound pretty gay.

>> No.15612211

>>15612167
>Bottom's Dream
that's why it's the memiest, because it's also the biggest. it's like 6 kg

>> No.15612256

>>15612211
Ngl, I'm pretty sad that there seems to be no translation available in my native language. I live in the country that maybe is number one in the world in terms of volume of literary translations and I can't get the memiest book. True suffering.

>> No.15612321

>>15611419
>The fact that so many books still name Ducks, Newburyport as "the greatest or most influential" post-modernist novel only tells you how far stream-of-consciousness still is from becoming a serious art.

>> No.15612338

>>15612321
m8 we're getting close to 100 years since the perfection of interior monologue, it ain't what we need in this quick-fast super cheap mega buy buy me out suck me off porno-world duck shit brick phone world

It's the 20s write something that will actually give me sustenance jfc

>> No.15612352

>>15611419
Is this book actually good? It's the only book I've seen both on /lit/ and in the normie bookshop.

>> No.15612446

>>15612352
no

>> No.15612449

>>15612338
Lmao shut up, idiot

>> No.15612483

>>15612449
see. interior monologue sucks.
also you fell for my bail, idiot.

>> No.15612492

>>15612352
yes

>> No.15612502
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>>15612352
Decide for yourself.

>> No.15612545

>>15612502
Hol' up, what happened to the punctuation?

>> No.15612641

>>15612545
There is none.

>> No.15612666

>>15612352
It's not for everyone, but for those who are prepared to tackle it, I think it rewards that effort many times over.

>> No.15612698

>>15611525
I think you can either see it as Runciter actually being the one in half-life all along or both Runciter and the others being in half-life, but separate from each other (Runciter being “hidden” from Jory or something like that). That’s the logical explanations, you can also see it as the half-life world leaking into the real world. I can’t really explain my reasoning behind the last possibility, but if you search it up online others have argued for that ending.

>> No.15612700

>>15611525
Chip becomes Lain

>> No.15612707

>>15612352
If it were written by a man in his late twenties, /lit/ would have been raving over it.

>> No.15612800

>>15612707
If that were the case, nobody would've heard of it.

>> No.15613546

>>15612707
If a man wrote it it would be readable

>> No.15613618

>>15612502
>Ulysses has nothing on this - Cosmopolitan

>> No.15613626

>>15613618
It's because Ulysses was written by a pig (a man), and this was written by a deity (woman).

>> No.15613668

>>15611530
You mean easter?

>> No.15613680

>>15613618
it's just a 1000 page version of the last 50 pages of Ulysses