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Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:08:33 2021 No.19008037 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck?

He literally cannot write. He has no idea how a sentence is supposed to be structured. No one even reviewed this for typos or grammatical mistakes.

In every chapter he has to explain a classic work to the reader or tell educate them on a common literary device in the same way that Sesame Street tells a toddler how to wash their hands.

This shit sucks balls

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:09:23 2021 No.19008042 >>19008037 >He got meme'd into reading Gardner Are you retarded?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:13:44 2021 No.19008061 >>19008037 it was his first work, his style improves greatly with each following book so you should hang on and read them all

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:18:32 2021 No.19008099 >>19008037 filtered, you can't get past prose and you want everything to be written for cave men

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:18:56 2021 No.19008102 >>19008037 Retards said the same about the modernists....

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:19:55 2021 No.19008112 Gardner is the 21st century's David Foster Wallace, you fool.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:54:08 2021 No.19008344 The crisis of modern literature is that people with good taste cannot see any clear avenue to making and distributing a novel whereas people who have no taste for writing are the only ones able to do so

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 14:59:08 2021 No.19008389 Yoooo another one fucking fell for it hook line and sinker How’d you like the fucking humanoid pile of aborted fetuses? Or could you even bear it enough to get that far?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 15:02:16 2021 No.19008411 >>19008112 /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 15:17:53 2021 No.19008524 >>19008389 I like that part. Very silent hill-esque.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 15:29:09 2021 No.19008586 >>19008037 The books are written specifically to follow the non-linear plot and reflect the character's age and understanding of things. >pseuds need their hands held to understand reading

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 15:31:02 2021 No.19008602 >>19008037 >reading translations

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 15:41:00 2021 No.19008678 >>19008037 The typos are intentional, but I guess you were too retarded to grasp the meta narrative going on.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 16:03:45 2021 No.19008812 >>19008678 >experimental prose >idiots can’t grasp it This board is retarded. CotC is phenomenal. It is akin to the Infinite Jest of our generation

Anonymous Wed Sep 8 16:15:11 2021 No.19008884

>>19008389
That’s basically where I am. I’m at the end of that chapter I think. It sucks so fucking much. Everything about this is terrible, but I’m still going to finish it because I paid two dollars for it and I hope the twist that everyone talks about is worth two bucks

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 16:16:58 2021 No.19008893 >>19008884 Post some pics of the page

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 16:24:04 2021 No.19008945 >>19008893 Why?

Anonymous Wed Sep 8 17:29:00 2021 No.19009360
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>>19008884
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 18:12:34 2021 No.19009664 Sneed

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 19:14:20 2021 No.19010059 >>19008586 This guys correct. They’re really good. I hope there’s more

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 19:58:48 2021 No.19010346 >>19008102 We’re seeing a new renaissance of writing bros

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:04:39 2021 No.19010374 >>19008884 Once you read the other books, you'll find yourself going back into the other books and... I don't want to spoil it.

Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:05:41 2021 No.19010380

>>19008678
Half of me wonders if people are just trolling. The narrative is pretty clear that you're supposed to be viewing the POV of you-know-who and their age is what determines the grammar. It is actually pretty brilliant and filters a lot of people.

Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:08:56 2021 No.19010390

>>19010380
The problem with COTC is that if you don't realize the thing with the POV, you'd think the book was thrown together. Once you see that the entire thing is crafted in a specific way to be revealed by later books, the entire thing makes sense. Trouble is, you can't tell people this or it starts to give away the twist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:12:20 2021 No.19010415 >>19010380 How is the writing style in call of the cradle?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:13:09 2021 No.19010418 >>19009360 >h-h-holden???

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:14:05 2021 No.19010425 >>19008037 >He has no idea how a sentence is supposed to be structured > he has to explain a classic work to the reader or tell educate them

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:27:55 2021 No.19010514 >>19010390 >hmm how do I make up for my grade school writing in the book I have already (self) published? >y-you gotta read all the books for any of the books to make sense

Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:31:38 2021 No.19010535

>>19010415
There are parts of it with a new born baby. (Pete. The kid from Call of the Crocodile when he's an infant.) So that means much of it is told through the baby's perspective. I liked that one quite a bit. There's a leprechaun trying to burn the baby alive and gets pretty fucked up like the rest of these stories

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 20:35:00 2021 No.19010560 >>19010514 Clearly he could have wrote it in a traditional way. You'd have to be a retard to think it wasn't intentional.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:00:52 2021 No.19010698 >>19010415 Garderian

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:02:30 2021 No.19010704 >>19010415 Gardnerian

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:03:15 2021 No.19010707 >>19008945 So we can see what you are referencing you fucking ape.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:34:14 2021 No.19010865 >>19010707 Well then read it yourself you fucking ape. Gosh! It's true that /lit/ doesn't read

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:38:10 2021 No.19010889 >>19008524 It is extremely like Silent Hill. I've always wanted books that were like it and this is the closest I've ever found T.B.H.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:46:47 2021 No.19010932 >>19010889 It's not unreasonable to think Gardener might've played them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 21:51:01 2021 No.19010966 >>19010865 Time to switch up your techniques, Gardner

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 22:34:50 2021 No.19011218 It’s the perfect Halloween book. I am going to read it to my cousins.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 22:37:09 2021 No.19011229 >>19008061 >>19008099 >>19008112 >>19008586 >>19010059 >>19011218 All shills must hang

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 8 23:01:24 2021 No.19011316 >>19011229 >enjoys a book >is a shill Okay. Shows the crab in the bucket mentality here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 00:05:21 2021 No.19011584 >>19011229 there's thousands of us, you cannot fight the Gardnermania

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 00:55:43 2021 No.19011826 >>19010514 kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 00:57:09 2021 No.19011833 >>19011316 Man you shills really try to gaslight hard. Nobody is laughing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 01:34:10 2021 No.19011996 What the fuck is going on in this thread

Anonymous Thu Sep 9 03:06:36 2021 No.19012298
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I'm reading it and I don't get it. Why is it considered such a meme? It's fine, but it's about my level of writing and I haven't written seriously in years. I feel like there's a joke I'm just not getting. I really enjoyed the baby scene in the nightmare, but besides that it's just... meh. I'm at chapter 12 and I'm seriously considering just dropping it. I was expecting it to be bad since it's a meme, but I'm disappointed.

Am I retarded?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 04:40:39 2021 No.19012639 Gardner, I know you're here. Just spoilertext and explain this shit to me. There's no hidden meaning, there's no plot twist, it's just you and your bad writing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 04:43:03 2021 No.19012645 >>19008524 Onions

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 05:38:10 2021 No.19012811 Should I post my bad novel as well, lit? It certainly cannot be better than Coc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 11:33:24 2021 No.19014256 bump i recently opened it for the first time lol there is a typo on the first page... why doesn't he fix this?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 12:03:10 2021 No.19014476 >>19008037 is it true you can read them in any order? That would be based if you could

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 13:51:48 2021 No.19015245 File: 84 KB, 214x214, 1626938380528.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19014256 I thought the typos were just a symptom of me reading a scuffed EPUB. They're actually in the book? Oh... Oh no...

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 14:02:03 2021 No.19015322 Just wait till you get to the retarded twist, it makes the story even worse.

Anonymous Thu Sep 9 14:57:17 2021 No.19015694

>>19008037
I'm 40 pages in and although the story is mediocre and the prose is bad it an easy read and it grabs you. It's like the 4chan equivalent of a terrible YA novel for women that includes magic shit and love triangles with the antagonist.
Awkward grammar, misplaced commas and spealing mistakes are distracting but the worst part is the /lit/ pandering. Gardner makes shoddy metaphores to lecture you superficially on the western cannon constantly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 15:23:47 2021 No.19015897 >>19008037 The author is a meta-Evolian as he revolts against the modern conventions of writing in his text, it is actually very illuminating and hard hitting if you use your brain you fucking retard cunt.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 16:17:39 2021 No.19016286 >>19015694 I just got to the twist, Gardnerchads... I kneel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 16:52:36 2021 No.19016527 >>19016286 Just wait to the thing in the later books hit you and you have to go back and realize the extremely dumb thing you thought earlier was actually really well written(poorly)

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 17:00:14 2021 No.19016592 >>19008586 >>19008812 Is it The Sound and the Fury of our generation?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 17:01:33 2021 No.19016602 >>19016527 Gardner need to reedit then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 17:08:09 2021 No.19016666 >>19008061 Heh

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 9 18:43:24 2021 No.19017370 >>19011833 meds, now

Anonymous Thu Sep 9 19:33:10 2021 No.19017702
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>>19008344
It's bleak but what you said is pretty accurate. The digital age is all about shilling and grifting, and people with good taste inherently know how poor in taste it is to do that

You either have to have some form of narcissism, or just genuinely lack any self awareness to constantly self promote yourself without it leaving a dirty taste in your mouth

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