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what do I read first?

>> No.17786986
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17786986

>>17786973
The King James Bible and the Common Book of Prayer, you degenerate rabble-rouser.

>> No.17787022

>>17786973
I must know as well
>aka bamp

>> No.17788510

Start with Whatever, but it doesn't really matter desu. I personally started with Platform and I didn't miss anything.

>> No.17788524

>>17788510
Whatever is dogshit

>> No.17788531

>>17788524
okay woman

>> No.17788782

>>17788531
>implying there are women on a Minecraft mod forum

>> No.17788799

Anything degenerate he wrote is pretty good. Beware the schizo muslim France books, they are cringe.

>> No.17789205

who is the houellebecq of gen y?

>> No.17789343

>>17788524
Hey! I enjoyed Whatever. The philosophical animal fiction that broke up the book was a lot of fun to read and was usually hilarious and thought-provoking.

>> No.17789369

>>17789343
>thought-provoking
Never use this phrase again, it makes me feel like I am on reddit

>> No.17789808

Whatever's alright and its pretty funny but I would start with Atomised. Ideas in it are pretty much the same but its longer and a more satisfying read. Also assuming that you're reading it in English, the translation of Whatever is fucking awful but Atomised is decent

>> No.17790198

Please, I beg you to not waste time with this depressing author, people merely consider him to be intelligent in virtue of how depressing he is. In reality, he pleases people for whom any sort of 'deep' social critique will do, the sort of people who like Fisher, Byung Chuul Han or Kaczynski.
If you still want to read him, Atomised and Map and the Territory are his best books. Whatever is a bit more undeveloped.

>> No.17790544

>>17790198
>the sort of people who like Fisher, Byung Chuul Han or Kaczynski
Sounds like hey right up my alley!

>> No.17790695

I read submission. Eh, it's alright, but he kind of plays with the whole
>le based and redpilled
role. Then again, given that we are on a website littered with retards, you will see a lot of praise

>> No.17790831

>>17790695
Submission is one of his worst desu.

Id say read atomized and serotonin.

>> No.17790863

>>17790831
thanks for the tip.

I don't mean to give the wrong impression, it was a pleasant read and the chapters in which he bangs hot students, gets drunk and has misogynist internal monologues are funny and all, buy it did leave me the impression that he was trying really hard to be "bAsEd and rEdPillLed"

>> No.17790965

>>17790863
>but it did leave me the impression that he was trying really hard to be "bAsEd and rEdPillLed"

Remember that it was released in 2015 and he is widely read by normies. Hell my mom burrowed my copy. I mostly felt it started of a bunch of plotlines that were never finished, like for example the professor with ties to the indentitarian movement they could atleast have talked more than once overall it felt a bit unfocused. Also I thought serotonin was a lot funnier, its one of the few books thst has had me Lol irl.

>> No.17791699

>>17789369
Holy fuck bro I think you need to go back, no one gives a damn how afraid of words you are lol fucking faggot