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I recently finished reading this. Can we have a thread on it?

>> No.21642633

>>21642600
General thoughts? Did you like it? I have never read it but plan to.

>> No.21642647

Gimmicky trash for children.

>> No.21642663

>>21642633
I liked it. But I also liked the gimmicks as >>21642647 posted. I found it a very enjoyable read and if you enjoy gimmicks in writing you'll likely enjoy it too.
I see a lot of people say it is scary but I found it more humorous at times taking the piss.

>> No.21642738
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>>21642600
The book is about schizophrenia and the writing style is meant to emulate the feeling of being schizophrenic. If you read the letters from Johnny's mother at the end they make it explicitly clear that she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and it's heavily implied that Johnny inherits thst from his mother. If you start to try and tackle the book at a deeper level, connect the dots and try to make sense of the references you end up just going in circles, much like how a schizophrenic will try to make sense of patterns where there aren't any.

>> No.21643112

I found the novelty to be fun, even if you wanted to call the construction merely gimmicks.I enjoyed piecing it all together, and I'm a sucker for framing stories.

>> No.21643139

>>21642647
is there any gimmicky literature for adult?

>> No.21643184

>>21642600
I liked that every woman he met would fuck him/blow him/give him an old fashion. Probably just his schizophrenia and didn't actually happen but it was fun to read

>> No.21643315

>>21642600
I really liked the Navidson Record parts but hated the Johnny Truant sections. Johnny is just a very stereotypical west coast degenerate.

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>>21642600
This dude wrote the dumbest foreword to any book ever, he was given an opportunity to do one for Blanchard’s Poetics of Space and did this horseshit for it
(1/3)

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>>21643339

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>>21643343

>> No.21643357

>>21643339
>This dude wrote the dumbest foreword to any book ever
way until you see neil gaiman's intros

>> No.21643361

>>21643339
Did he really do his
>house
and text formatting gimmick for another person's book? That is some pathetic "hey look at me, remember this" shit.

>> No.21643754

One thing I did get was chapter 12 with the Holloway tapes. Periodically there is a number in the left hand margin going from 1 to 12. In the chapter it talks about how the Holloway tapes go from 1 to 13 so I thought they might be related but there is no 13 number. What was that about?

>> No.21643766

Also another thing. Everywhere online it talks about purple text but in my edition I had yellow text and I don't see anywhere online talking about yellow text.

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>>21643766
Poc related. Why is it yellow when everything I read talks about purple?

>> No.21644002

>>21643785
Which page was this anon?

>> No.21644250

>>21643339
kek I'm reading this book right now. He does strike a chord by pointing out the gaiety and childish bliss with which Bachelard describes poetic images of the house and of intimacy, but the whole formatting thing is just retarded. You could even say it's a symptom of extreme hubris and arrogance for him to maim René Char's poetry by cutting it up into some janky-ass spiral. The foreword really added nothing of value imo.

I can just picture the chief of printing at the Penguin offices, first laying eyes on this foreword, sighing.

>> No.21644510

>>21643785
Page 518

>> No.21644513

>>21644510
Meant for >>21644002

>> No.21645532

>>21643785
Is that the only place?

>> No.21645592

>>21643357
Why Gaiman? What's he writing?

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>>21645532
Another on the copyright page and that's all.

>> No.21646735

>>21646245
>>21643785
Does anyone have a version of theirs for comparison on the color of the text here?

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>>21646735
Mine is purple it seems.

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>>21646245
This one too.

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>>21646735
>>21646777
Also purple in mine.

>> No.21646798

>>21646785
>>21646245
The square around Full Color Edition is also different. One has only blue to red scale while the other has a full rainbow spectrum.

>> No.21646817

>>21646245
>printed in Germany
>>21646785
>printed in United States
What editions?

>> No.21646908

>>21646817
Mine with yellow text says Remastered Full Color Edition. It is paperback.

>> No.21646926

>>21642600
I thought the gimmick was fun and I really liked the navidson record. The parts about the editor, zampono and the fake sources that were philosophic musings fluctuated pretty wildly as far as quality goes but I think they were effective in applying a sense of power the record had outside of the story. Its fun, its probably not a future classic.

>> No.21646939

>>21643766
The text uses hyperlink colors thematically so there should only be blue/purple/red.

>> No.21646952

>>21646939
That is what I heard too. What do suppose is going on here:
>>21646245
>>21643785

>> No.21646982

>>21642738
This is correct.

>> No.21647012

>>21646817
>>21646908
Mine is second edition paperback. >>21646777

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Mine is purple but it's not very bright. Paperback 2nd edition.

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Hardcover

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>>21647243

>> No.21647283

>>21646908
>Remastered Full Color Edition
Interesting. I wonder if just that copy had a printing error or if the Remastered Edition changed it.

>> No.21647310

>>21642738
Does it pair well with Anti-Oedipus?

>> No.21647917

>>21646245
>>21646785
>>21647243
What are those numbers under first edition?

>> No.21647923

>>21643357
who is neil gaiman??? all i know of is kneel gayman

>> No.21648166

>>21647283
I'm also interested in the change to yellow.

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>>21647283
i have the remastered full color edition and its purple

>> No.21648220

>>21648199
Must be some weird printing error. Do you have a pic of the other page? Also Germany?

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>>21648220

>> No.21648227

>>21648226
Anon must have gotten some weird German bootleg copy that printed it in yellow.