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17029835 No.17029835 [Reply] [Original]

What's so good about it? The prose is, obviously, pretty incredible, and most of the characters and everything are compelling, but what puts it in the category of Greatest of All Time?

I feel like I'm just not getting it... any particular passages that you feel really exemplify the greatness of this novel?

>> No.17029840

Bukowski called it a shit novel

>> No.17029844

>my friend, we truly are under the volcano
Seriously, Malcolm?

>> No.17029846

>>17029840
now it has my attention

>> No.17029969

>>17029840
Bukowski's scum. It's like saying that Rupi Kaur called Percy Shelley "a shit poet."

>> No.17029993

>>17029835
Read this big boy 5 years ago. A very immersive experience, steeped in booze, which made the tragic ending feel like one of those Gaspar Noe bad trips

>> No.17030071

>>17029840
The opinions
Of the
Guy
Who would
Write
Entire books
Of
Free verse
Poetry in
A few
Hours
That looked
Just
Like
This
Are quite
Frankly
Meaningless.

>> No.17030109

>>17029835
I wish I had an unlimited supply of amphetamines so I could produce more than one 20,000 word story every 10 months.