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19775037 No.19775037 [Reply] [Original]

is this the gayest book of all time?

is the only point of reading this getting a small amount of exercise while you rotate it?

who cares?

>> No.19775054

I haven't read it, shit thread tho

>> No.19776616

>>19775037
It's for redditors.

>> No.19776750

>>19775037
I literally bought this for my girlfriend after one of you faggots suggested the same. She hated it, and now she doesn't want to read the books I buy her.

>> No.19776929

>>19775037
I bought it in like 2006 or something.
Thought it was ok, well the Navidson part was ok. The Truant part is horrible.
I've only read it once.

>> No.19777093

>>19775037
Straight mids. The polish have not had a single interesting thought in the past 100 years

>> No.19777276

>>19775037
It's a great example of a book behaving badly. He tries to do things that are unique or out of the ordinary for books. However, his writing is pretty average, and so any otherwise interesting stuff he could do with his weird formats comes off gimmicky because the writing rarely justifies it.

Case in point, HoL is a nested narrative, except instead of just writing a normal nested narrative, he decides to make it literal by literally showing different formatting...but that's about as deep as it gets. There's also parts where the formatting gets wacky because "omg it reflects the book's twisty narrative...or something" but honestly it doesn't really add much that a decent writer could otherwise write normally. Plebs love it because it's accessible and quirky (it's the manic pixie dream girl of books lmao). I think the formatting stuff could've been used far more effectively if for instance he did something more akin to concrete poetry. What MZD did just comes off shallow.

>> No.19777956

>>19775037
It truly ruins the story when you learn that it's all fake bullshit

>> No.19778163

>>19777956
Why would you ever even think that this is real and not just a story?

>> No.19778169

>>19777956
Lol? It’s fiction anon, a work of the imagination. Yes there are no expansive labyrinths randomly appearing out of a suburban home

>> No.19778169,1 [INTERNAL] 

>>19776750
>giving books you haven't read as a gift