This is legit one of the best books I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.16350212]

[Anonymous No.16350226]

I hated it also is your name nick

[Anonymous No.16350230]

>>16350226
That is perfectly fine, and no it is not.

[Anonymous No.16350260]

>>16350212
I don’t get it. Read like a third of it and then dropped it. I don’t give a fuck about some NY hipsters and their stupid parties. What’s so great about the book anyways?

[Anonymous No.16350276]

Hey Tao. Sales are down again I see, else you wouldn't be shilling here.

[Anonymous No.16350286]

>>16350260
I don't think you're supposed to give a fuck about them? My reading is that it's supposed to give you a huge sense of loneliness and numbness, and then the rest of the book is the main character finding ways to break through that. But yeah, if you're not down with his style, dropping it after a third is perfectly reasonable.

[Anonymous No.16350783]

>>16350260
My life is nothing like Paul but I related so intensely to his autistic internal monologue that it was a very vivid experience for me.

[Anonymous No.16350802]

>>16350212
What is good about it?

[Anonymous No.16350833]

>>16350802
The two posts above you do a good job at explaining it.

[Anonymous No.16350839]

>>16350833
My post is proof they do not. They are devoid of all particulars, in particular.

[Anonymous No.16350848]

>>16350212
it's eliott roger tier

[Anonymous No.16350864]

>>16350212
Oh Tao~~
You fucking gook

[Anonymous No.16350873]

>>16350839
>huge sense of numbness
>autistic internal monolog
.....
>devoid of particulars

What do you want? A plot summary? There is no plot. We live in a modern world devoid of meaning. There are no plots anymore. Why should they be in our books?

[Anonymous No.16350887]

>>16350873
Evidence in the form of excerpts would seem to me the obvious answer.

[Anonymous No.16350911]

>>16350887
If you need that much convincing to read a book then just don't read it.

[Anonymous No.16350918]

>>16350911
>>16350887

Fine, here's an excerpt about anxiety:

"When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like he’d sprinted twenty yards. As the beating slowly normalized he’d think of how his heart, unlike him, was safely contained, away from the world, behind bone and inside skin, held by muscles and arteries in its place, carefully off-center, as if to artfully assert itself as source and creator, having grown the chest to hide in and to muffle and absorb—and, later, after innovating the brain and face and limbs, to convert into productive behavior—its uncontrollable, indefensible, unexplainable, embarrassing squeezing of itself."

[Anonymous No.16350920]

>>16350911
If you won't provide much convincing for others to read a book don't suggest they should read it.

[Anonymous No.16350932]

>>16350918
Thank you. I certainly won't be pursuing the matter any further. It reads like most modern self-indulgent nothings, words upon words without substance. Sentiment is cheap and alone does not constitute literature, although in its pretension I failed to connect to any sentiment.

[Anonymous No.16350942]

>>16350932

It's strange how you're denouncing Tao when you write just like him.

[Anonymous No.16350963]

>>16350942
I detect no overblown and wholly irrelevant simile in my post. What is more, there is a clear subject, substantiation, and conclusion. I contend they are unalike.

[Anonymous No.16350988]

>>16350963
You're either a troll or Ben fucking Shapiro.

[Anonymous No.16351025]

>>16350988
I'm just looking for a book to read.

[Anonymous No.16351042]

>>16350918
the way he writes reminds me of ryu murakami

[Anonymous No.16351132]

>>16350212
I also enjoyed this book, what books do yall know that read like this?

[Anonymous No.16351136]

>>16351132
"Liveblog: A Novel" by Margaret Megan Matlock Boyle

[Anonymous No.16351300]

>>16350212
I can't wait for Leave Society. Tao's blog is comfy. He's a good host.

[Anonymous No.16351345]

>>16350212

so so boring and pessimistic. it doesnt take anything to write characters who are superficial and one dimensional

[Anonymous No.16351353]

>>16351042
he really liked almost transparent blue when he read it

[Anonymous No.16351984]

>>16350988
It’s Ben

[Anonymous No.16352881]

>>16350918
Seems okay, not groundbreaking or anything, but worth the paper it was printed on, lots of appositives though, and I don't see any artistic reason for them to be there.