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1430541 No.1430541 [Reply] [Original]

I can't do it, /lit/. I just can't fucking do it.

Yeah, Jane Eyre was boring. Yeah, The Savage Detectives was masturbatory. Yeah, Foer's most recent novel was pedantic and amateurish. But this has got to be the worst thing I've ever read. I don't know how this got published. I don't know how anyone cares about this piece of trash. It's a joke that's been perpetrated on readers everywhere.

Fuck this book. Yeah, I'm mad.

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1430570

sage

>> No.1430574

I hate it too, but The Savage Detectives was pretty good.

>> No.1430590

Best trolling in literature.

>> No.1430602

better than Ethan Frome or A Separate Peace

>> No.1430609

the prose is extraordinary, no one's been able to describe filth and deviancy in such a poetic and eloquent manner before or since. Yes, it's very uneven, but the moment of sheer brilliance more than make up for the dross.

>> No.1430614

I can't do it, /lit/. I just can't fucking do it.

Yeah, STLFag was boring. Yeah, Tybrx was masturbatory. Yeah, Deep&Edgy's most recent post was pedantic and amateurish. But this has got to be the worst thing I've ever read. I don't know how this got published. I don't know how anyone cares about this piece of trash. It's a joke that's been perpetrated on readers everywhere.

Fuck this post. Yeah, I'm mad.

>> No.1430617

>>1430590
And for that, I can almost respect Burroughs.

Almost.

>> No.1430624

>>1430590
Nah. That honor goes to Finnegans Wake.

>> No.1430625

>>1430617

If you want to keep that little bit of respect then, I don't recommend you read his essay on how Scientology is basically epic (I really enjoyed Naked Lunch btw)

>> No.1430627

Kevin?

>> No.1430629

>>1430617

I'm sure would thank you for that, you fucking drain baby.

>> No.1430646

>>1430625

It wasn't sincere. Burroughs thought it was interesting, but bullshit nonetheless.

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>>1430614
>>1430570
>>1430629

Man, /lit/ sure is mad tonight.

>> No.1430673

>>1430646

He had a lot of strange interests didn't he? I have some recordings of some lectures he did with Ginsberg and he talks about some pretty wild stuff.

>> No.1430679

2deep4u. Seriously. Read some analysis on it and re-read it.

>> No.1430708

>>1430679

To be fair, I remember reading an analysis on the Steely Dan scene, and although it made perfect sense (capital punishment etc) I don't think I could have extracted that from the text myself.