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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V..

So /lit/, I just got this book as a gift. Is it any good? I have a bunch of other books I intend to read, but my girlfriend claims that I'll like this one best.

>> No.6141483

>>6141306
It's good. Then again, I enjoy alligator hunts.

>> No.6141549

>>6141483
Any more detail? What's it like?

>> No.6141564

>>6141549
V. is like a nightmare before Freudian analysis of dreams: a sensical, yet, surreal experience.

>> No.6141579

>>6141564
Yes, I read the Wikipedia article. What I'm asking is, which other works does it remind you of?

>> No.6141597

A group of people take turns describing a woman we never meet.

>> No.6141613

>>6141597
>a woman

>> No.6142644

>>6141306
It's good.

>>6141579
Like a more literary Vonnegut/Philip K. Dick, or a more sci-fi/conspiracy inflected Beat novel, minus the obnoxious Beat literary tics.

>> No.6142682

I didn't think a girl would like V.

>> No.6142699

>>6142682

>has never met a patrish qt who digs Pinecone

why even live?

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>>6142699

>mfw I've never met a girl whose literary interest goes beyond Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, the Great Gatsby, Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters.

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