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How /lit/, how does something like this not only gets published but gets so much recognition.

There was more autism secreting from its pages than a curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.

Is that all it takes. Shoddy, self-masturbatory stories that fuel teenage autism while making pop references that serve no purpose.

Yes, I'm jealous.

>> No.6924090

>>6924071
>had to read this book for one of my college's "culture" class
>author visited the campus and searches his book on Twitter in front of 300+ students
>awkward silence as he reads the mean tweets we all made about his shoddy piece of shit book

In all honesty, one of the worst books I have ever read, and the author is a huge narcissist as well

>> No.6924094

>>6924090
lmao, what college?

>> No.6924119

>>6924071
This is a book that only appeals to the least common denominator of humanity.

Books like "Ready Player One" that foster escapism are literally toxic for the mind

>> No.6924144

>>6924071

The end game is that Literature becomes as low as the Comic Book Industry.

>yfw, Art will lose all its intellectual value.
>yfw, it took centuries to build up literary culture, and it will take so again.
>mfw, only Philosophy will remain supreme.

We need to learn a new language so that Plebs can't read out shit. That way, the Plebs can read their John Green in English, and we can read the Bell Curve in Latin.

>TRIGGERED

>> No.6924153

>>6924071
>How does a book pandering to autists and neckbeards get so much sales?!

Hi, welcome to 4chan.org, home of the autists.
With 22 Million unique visitors each month!

>> No.6924190

>>6924144

The comic book industry isn't this low.
Erotica isn't even as low as this book.

At least they accomplish something. This book, it doesn't do anything other than tell you that the authors lived in the 80's

>> No.6924206

>>6924094
u of colorado at boulder, our state's most prestigious uni

>> No.6924221

>>6924144
>Philosophy
>relevant
>past 1950

>> No.6924226

>>6924206
Was Ernest Cline otherwise unpleasant? Inquiring minds like to know.

>> No.6924233

>>6924094
Kansas State

>>6924226
He was nice enough, other than having a huge boner for his own writing

>> No.6924271

>>6924206
maybe in colorado but that is not a prestigious school come on now

>> No.6924272
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6924272

Some autistic friend of mine actually passionately recommended it to me... Then, without doing any research, I recommended it to a total lit-patrician friend of mine. He has ignored me ever since. I've lost all credibility as a reader among my only well-read friend! And now feel like the biggest tool.

>> No.6924276

>>6924272
I kek'd.

>> No.6924277

>>6924272
>recommending a book you haven't even read

why would you do this

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6924283

>>6924272
>among my only
>!

>> No.6924285

>>6924272
Sounds like you got what you deserved (re: your ex-friend, not getting recommended Ready Player One, no one deserves that).

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6924318

>>6924277
It was a moment of weakness. I trusted my autistic friend's taste and used it to impress the other..
I can't come clean either, because then he'll doubt that I even read at all!

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6924327

>>6924221

More like past 1987.

>> No.6924334

>>6924190

Who would have thought that literature ever was this bad, even by people who have yet to write it off.

>> No.6924338

>>6924327
stop shilling for the other bloom

>> No.6924349

>>6924119
>least common denominator

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6924354

>>6924338

>Lasch needs love too.

>> No.6924568

>>6924349
HAHAHA I trolled you...

god damn it I fucked up.

>> No.6924901

>Brother recommends this book
>He has good taste
>Read it
>Utter trash, with a needlessly ambiguous ending

The world building made more questions than it answered and felt like it wanted a sequel it will never deserve