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Where to start with T.C. Boyle? What does /lit/ think of him?

>> No.9891738

You can read him as a cautionary tale about what absolute nonsense was considered literature during the LSD era.

>> No.9891741

>>9891738
So he's Pynchon lite or something?

>> No.9891752

Man that Top Gear guy is looking rough these days.

>> No.9891764

I enjoyed Descent of Man; Greasy Lake and Budding Prospects.
I thought World's End was meh.

>> No.9891779

>>9891726
What an ugly motherfucker, why would you want to read anything someone like that wrote

>> No.9891828

>>9891779
Kys

>> No.9891847

>>9891779

Obviously, it's going to be purple prose suffused with Ressentiment, on account of congenital ugliness.

>> No.9891853

>>9891828
t. Uggo

>> No.9891866

>>9891726
I think I would not lend him $50 if he asked and I'd watch every step he takes on the way out before he steals weird shit like a garden hose or something.

>> No.9891889

>>9891866

He looks like the type of bastard that would steal your garden gnome

>> No.9891919
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>>9891866
TC Boyle here. Thanks guys.

>> No.9891926

>>9891919
Junkie Richard Hammond

>> No.9891977

I just googled and had to find out that despite my year long certainty he actually did NOT write the electric acid kool aid test.

>> No.9892043

>>9891926
Ha ha.

Good one.

>> No.9892920

I enjoyed water music, extremely funny book though the ending felt rushed.
Great example of fictionalised history

>> No.9893665

>>9891779
I hate to be superficial too, but I cant see any good literature coming out of this guy LMAO look the top of his head

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>>9891726
Start with his short stories. The one about vikings "We Are Norsemen" is very funny. I liked his Doubletakes collection of fiction from various authors, but that might not be very easy to find as I think it was just a USC textbook.

The only novel I've read of his is pic related, which was OK but not particularly great. IMO he excels in the short form.

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How's my fit? Am I effay?

>> No.9894151

The only work of his I've read is Budding Prospects, his second novel. The plot is they've got a get rich quick scheme growing pot. I read it a long time ago and remember it being kind of depressing but it's supposed to be humorous? Coincidentally, I was thinking of this book the other day and that I should try a reread or something else of his.

>> No.9894162

>>9891779
This is par. It's a surprise when writers are good looking.

>> No.9894179

>>9892920
Prompted me to read Park's journals. Worth it.

>> No.9894258

>>9894162
Well I mean he doesn't exactly take care of himself, that accounts for most of it.

>> No.9894284

Looks like a mix of Richard Hammond and Serj from System of a Down