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This badass motherfucker.

>> No.713907

>>713903
who is it?

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>> No.713914

>>713907
Tadeusz Borowski

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God-tier scifi author

Doubt any of you faggots have heard of him though

>> No.713949

>>713916
Take it easy with your insulting suppositions

At least I have Only Forward on my shelf.

>> No.714027

>>713949

God damn a physical copy would be nice, only seen it at the library though

I got the .txt ebooks for only forward, spares and one of us too if anyone wants them, actually PAID moneydollars for the last two as not available for dl anywhere else but ebook stores.

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>>713916
You posted the wrong picture.

>> No.714059

>>713949
>>713916

Just looked up Only Forward on this recommendation, and omfg it starts so badly I wanted to burn it, and I'm reading off a screen.

Does it get any better? Or is he a storyteller, and not a writer? EVvn so, it reeks ten pages in.

>> No.714065

>>714059

The beginning is just a fucked up prologue, that makes sense at the end of the book

gets SO FUCKING GOOD fast

>> No.714068

>>714049

Looks like the pic on his site http://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com/

>> No.714074

>>714068
Oh, sorry, thought you meant Gene Wolfe. Your text is misleading.

>> No.714076

>>714065

Dunno if I can swallow that. Man's got no style so far... IMO

>> No.714083

>>714076

Consider this, one of the 'neighbourhoods', (self-contained city-states) in the book is called Cat

It is populated solely by plain, ordinary cats, and somehow runs like clockwork, with stores continuously kept full of food for humans passing through

Run. By. Cats.

Now read it

>> No.714087

>>714083

That sounds completely stupid and ridiculous.

>> No.714091

>>714087

The book describes it far better

At least read up until he gets to action neighbourhood in the first chapter or whatever, gives you an idea of the style of the rest of the book

Near the end it just goes into mindfuck mode though

>> No.714109

>>714091

well, mb, because >>>714083 was a hopeless to get anyone to believe anything

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God damn, can't upload pics with embedded files in them anymore, well that fucking sucks, no wonder /lit/hursday died.

Still, strongly recommended to anyone who likes crazy fast-paced detective sci-fi

>> No.714122

john cowper powys.

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>>714112

Great book, but thats a horrible cover.

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>>714144

How's this?

I still like the other better though