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>> No.22342916

I’ve never read this book but it looks interesting and the reviews are glowing. Is it actually comparable to 2666 like everyone on goodreads apparently wants to signal?

>> No.22343048

>>22342861
why the FUGG is there no Spanish version?

>> No.22343053

>>22343048
Because it hasn’t been translated yet

>> No.22343054
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>>22343053
but it was originally written in spanish

>> No.22343060

>>22343054
Nevermind, just read about it. Anyways, do you think the author is still doing the free copies thing? Would be kino to get a signed copy.

>> No.22343063

>>22343054
No, it wasn’t lol the info is in the links.
It’s a literary hoax

>> No.22343064

I live in Ushuaia and what the fuck is a patagonian?

>> No.22343071

>>22343060
The link says that the autor is dead

>> No.22343080

>>22343071
The first link, yea. But the rabbit hole goes deeper. In the 3rd link the publisher supposedly replies to the guy who wrote the first blog and says the author is actually alive but claims he died in 2002.

>> No.22343163

The true inheritor to the Pynchonian tradition

>> No.22343173

Just sent him my address. Can't wait.

>> No.22343175
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22343175

would it be too much to ask for him to sign

>> No.22343188

>author randomly replies to a reddit post and offers free books
nice

>> No.22343266

>>22342861
where and how do I get a free copy? This is the only interesting thread on /lit/ right now

>> No.22344498

bump

>> No.22344510

>>22343266
Send an email to the publisher (see link #4)

>> No.22344514

>>22343266
Email the publisher River Boat Books. They said they're sending me the book.

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22344529

Asked for a copy too.

>> No.22344768

has kind of a "look mom no hands" quality

>> No.22344860

>>22342861
I just reread Tlon Upbar Orbis Tertius by Borges, and this whole thing is making me uneasy since it's very much reminding me of it. Still gonna get a copy.

>> No.22344983

>>22344510
It’s a reddit post, you fucking faggot

>> No.22344993

>>22344983
it’s a post by the author where he invites people to ask for a free copy

>> No.22344998

>>22344514
Why would they even be sending you a free copy when the three volumes are selling for $40, you lying faggot

>> No.22345394

>>22342861
someone give me a tl;dr about whatever controversy this is

>> No.22345528

>>22343064
patagotitan is risen from the grave

>> No.22345606

>>22345394
white guy using a spic psuedonym so his 1300 page novel can get published

>> No.22345611

dont care, ebook when

>> No.22345624

>>22345611
only as a real book for real readers :D

>> No.22345650

>>22345624
lame, let me know when it comes to a real format that isn't for people who spend more time collecting than reading.

>> No.22345659

>>22342861
Has anyone actually read this book?

>> No.22345664

>>22345650
>if one buys books they can’t read them as well

>> No.22345710

>>22342861
What the hell even is the plot?

>> No.22345779
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>>22345394
There is no controversy. The publisher came here to shill their books like the absolute niggers they are and likely most posters in the thread are the same person. There is a document where he claims to be an american writing the novel and the River Boat Publisher - which might be fake as well. If you read it, most of the reviewers names he drops (except the one published by River Boat) don't exist on google, so either by a big coincidence they have no digital presence, or they for the most part fake.
In fact, almost everyone connected to the whole thing seems to not exist at all. I am afraid that The Modern Novel guy was likely scammed into reading it, or is on the hoax as well. There is also a YouTube video by a guy named Leaf by Leaf on the whole Riverboat etc. where he mentions the Mad Patagonian and other books by these guys, but in my opinion he was likely paid to do it: if you read the comments and compare them to those in the other videos, they look fake and made by bots (they keep asking more about the mad patagonian when the review is about another book, they are overtly polite etc.).
My final assessment is that either this whole thing is a giant scam by someone who has a lot of money and free time to pretend to be an author instead of actually trying to engaging with the publishing world, or worse. It seems like a big scheme to either steal someone's data or make a point about the publishing world or whatever.
It's more entertaining to delve into the rabbit hole for about two hours before discovering everything is fake. I'm definitely not reading 1200 pages by a guy who's going so far into shilling his own book - did that with Tao Lin already and all his stuff was shit. It's also irritating seeing a guy playing at being an author when most of what he's doing is throwing money at problems. Fucking engage with your peers in an honest manner if you want to be acknowledged by them, you spectacular faggot.

Here's the Leaf by Leaf video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxUzbdqCXb4

Here the document where the guy claims to be Peter Damian Bellis (likely also a fake name, fake story, fake interactions with other authors and 100% fake reviewers):
>https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-18292535/documents/cc9ef9bf03ff4581b44bbdc63158d1d6/A%20Great%20Maximalist%20Novel.pdf

>> No.22345790

>>22345779
You're schizoid this book is clearly real and ppl seem to like it
Stop the cope

>> No.22345798

>>22345790
the book is real only in the sense that there is a 1200 page object named "the Mad Patagonian" that exists. None of the hype around it looks in any way real or is in any way traceable online, which in turn makes me extremely skeptic on the quality of it

>> No.22345808

>>22345798
I thought the book was in three separate volumes?

>> No.22345828

>>22345798
What the fuck are you talking about you autistic retard, read the Goodreads reviews, they're by ppl who are very active on the platform , not some bot farmed reviews. Not everything is a conspiracy faggot.
Imagine watching videos of ppl liking it and reading reviews and going DUHHHH ITS A SCAM THEYRE BEING PAID GUHHH

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>>22345710
…plot?

>> No.22346050
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>>22345828
they love it anon

>> No.22346059

>>22346050
Sounds incredibly based

>> No.22346107

>>22346050
Women cant into literature, what else is new?
*Life* is full of pointless digressions... Smoking emoji.

>> No.22346158

>>22345779
>fat by fat
Fuck off spamming this corpulent charlatan

>> No.22346208

>>22346158
I like him, he was my introduction to Vollmann and Theroux.

>> No.22346616

>>22346050
Bro really picked the one review from some whore crying about muh sexism lmfao the absolute state of this faggot, I haven't even read the book but this level of cope is insane.

>> No.22346727

>>22345650
It already came out in a real format

>> No.22346736

>>22345779
I"m not affiliated with the author nor the publisher and I posted here. Stop the /x/ tier conspiracies

>> No.22346744

>>22346050
>The critics are fake, bought and over polite!
>Here's a review where a roastie whines about the usual
???

>> No.22346766

>>22346208
Quite embarrassing for you to even be proud enough to mention that.

>> No.22346822

>>22346766
>proud
Holy projection!

>> No.22347072

>>22346822
Some people have integrity, anon. If you've seriously entertained that charlatan Vollmann and his 7 volume series of what is essentially "punching down bad, punching up good", you've got a lot more problems than who you go to for book recommendations.

>> No.22347075

>>22347072
What a tryhard lol

>> No.22347081

>>22347072
>his 7 volume series of what is essentially "punching down bad, punching up good"
lmao it's funny cause it's true

>> No.22347085

>>22347075
Wails the retard who watches retarded e-celeb grifters who are the intellectual heavyweight in a SpecEd classroom. You seriously are proud of watching some fat blowhard speak meanderingly and emptily for x-minutes while he tries to read a script pasted from wikipedia, book reviews, etc., while saying everything and nothing at the same time. Congrats, fatso. I bet you’re impressed with cliff too, huh?

>> No.22347108

>>22347085
>while saying everything and nothing at the same time.
What do you mean? (Not that guy)
>Congrats, fatso. I bet you’re impressed with cliff too, huh?
lol did you watch their video together? Leaf starts randomly talking about Aristotle some minutes in. What a tryhard. Cliff is just a pseud poser (his review of Beckett's trilogy is embarrassing).

>> No.22347588

>>22347108
>What do you mean?
I'm assuming that anon meant he speaks so vaguely as to encompass everything about the books in question while having nothing of substance to say about it.
>Cliff is just a pseud poser
Aye, the tortured artist schtick doesn't work when you're a fucking youtube critic

>> No.22347820

>>22342861
Been wanting to read this but Terra Nostra is higher up in the list

>> No.22348158

So...epub?

>> No.22348168

>>22348158
so...faggot?

>> No.22348206

>>22348168
no need to sign your posts

>> No.22348218

>>22348206
that doesn't even work lol
it's the post itself

>> No.22349114

bump

>> No.22349608

I wish there was an ebook of pdf of this somehow I can't buy the physical edition I'm in a third world shithole

>> No.22350480

>>22349608
You can buy it straight from the publisher, you have to select the international edition

>> No.22350757

>>22346050
>makes women seethe
I will now read your novel

>> No.22352061

>>22342861
>another meta pomo doorstopper garbage book
Yawn. I thought we had moved on past this.