>how did this get started
>how many number of people contributed
>how long did it take
>who profits from this
Also I find that this song is a good theme for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJs_XI2oF5w
>meme in physical form
You spent money on this?
If thats you, can you please post a pic of the last two pages of part 4?
>>7607173
Like $12 something, free shipping. Regularly $37. Some anon posted a coupon code for it to buy on Lulu.
>>7607179
What page is that and I'll post with a timestamp.
>>7607174
>>7607183
is that code still valid? I want to get it on the low, my guy.
>>7607188
Starts at 214 i believe
>>7607195
http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/hypersphere/paperback/product-22517627.html
Promo bode: LULURC
Get you 25% off and free shipping.
Not sure if it still works though.
>>7607173
If the internet ever dies, I have it's soul in hardcopy.
>>7607202
I don't know where the fuck it is so here's page 214.
>>7607217
This is more coherent than I expected after reading the first few pages pre-editing.
>>7607217
Oh wow the formatting when it went over must have fucked up.
See if you can find pic related, and take a pic of the last two pages before Part V starts. Idk if this is even formatted like this in the book.
>>7607227
I mean it's "Naked Lunch" in the style of "House of Leaves". You get some of it, the rest you just read, not process and move on. The fact that there is some form of coherency is stunning at times.
>>7607232
>738 page book
>only on page 59
>expects me to find this
>mfw
>>7607239
I was hoping the page numbers would match but they didn't so I didn't have many other options lol
>>7607244
Just wait for the Kindle edition.
>>7607239
are you a long lost child of stephen fry?
>reading this
>only page 6
>sees it getting worse and worse
>reads the last sentence
>my sides
>>7607265
It's bad, but so bad it's funny.
I would buy a physical copy with the discount bonus, but not way I'm 37 bucks for the meme.
>>7607236
Most people added parts without reading much of the rest. Each fragment that someone added is somewhat coherent by itself, making no sense in the whole.
We're on googlebooks!
We famous now!
https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=nxVQCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
>>7607378
So who's making money off of this.
>>7607389
Google.
does it have avid reader memes
>>7607183
>>7607204
>$37
>25% off
>=$12
/lit/ math skills everyone
>>7607411
Kill
Fuck
Kill
Marry
>>7607411
>calls me out
>>7607183
>Like $12 something
>$12.94
/lit/ math skills everyone
>>7607265
I still wonder who all wrote it and am amazed that no one went into the Google doc and just shitposted or deleted the whole thing.
>>7607444
I own the book. I got it after it just came out, first edition. the whole thing is one large shitpost
Next time, it should be edited down massively. the book is great, but there's too much superfluous memeing going on. It reads somewhere inbetween those books that are published posthumously that were not cut down into what the author meant to be the final version and one giant shit meme banepost tier garbage.
I expected a turd of a book, but next time we should consider a more finely polished turd
8/10 worth the money. certainly on tier with TLOTIAT. I keep it on my desk next to IJ as a counterbalance.
>>7607506
>TLOTIAT
What's that.
>>7607513
/lit/'s first book. The Legacy of a Totalitarianism in a Tundra.
also a fun read. not as shitpost like, but still very shitpost. formatting is much more like a regular book, and certainly more coherent. similar in objective and content, but oddly it ended as a very different book
>>7607522
Is it available as a physical book?
>>7607529
Yes, It is also on lulu
>>7607532
I'll see if I care enough to buy it after I finish "Hypersphere". There's only so much you can take.
I'd like to get in on another book of theirs when they start writing. How does that usually get coordinated?
why are people buying this when a perfectly better edition is online? https://docs.google.com/document/d/15TFzFZzEDmn8jeOWs7ro8ZYayb4bKEte3uokoZSuAlQ/edit?usp=sharing
there's also the original doc that the egotist is reading from:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit?usp=sharing
>>7607549
Because reading a 737 page book on a laptop is horrible.
>>7607425
so? it's still not 25% off $37 ya fuckin retard
>>7607540
It's not actually a regular experience. what is required is a strong leader who is evenhanded but also has the capability to saddle the hoard. RIP bottleman.
It requires someone to withstand extreme hate for nothing decisions. It's a thankless job. It requires a true Cincinnatus. other things it needs is some PR skills management skills and a fuckton of luck
>>7607172
Wena choro.
>>7607572
Then tell Lulu.
>>7607513
Are you new here?
>>7607586
>regularly $34.50
>you save 50%
>additional 25% off
that extra 50% makes a difference. crazy how that works.
>>7607596
TIAT has been completely shadowed Hypersphere, I wouldn't blame the guy for not knowing the first book in the Shiterary cannon.
Maybe someday soon, a new book will be released, but as a part of the nature of /lit/ it'll take a while. people here read a lot and even as a group effort it takes a massive amount out of you
guys ...
why is this on book depository
>>7607217
Lol. I wrote the lsd interlude in the detective Jones story. Funny to see it pop up like this
>>7607644
>$10 on top
Jews did this
guys, remember to tweet this book to the following, not limited to:
Slavoj Zizek
Sam Harris
Noam Chomsky
Saul Kripke
Sam Hyde
Caitlyn Jenner
Richard Dawkins
Donald Trump
Jeb Bush
Your local church
et cetera
>>7607265
you have a fat thumb
Does anyone have a guide to reading the overarching plot or at least recs on the best little segments?
>>7607690
you cant be serious
>>7607696
why? i am
>>7607690
overarching plot? there was once a pastebin that demarcated some familiar, recursive territory thru/out the work, can't find it.
Goddammit, in both of these books I remember shit writing randomly during the process and I have no idea if any of the passages I wrote made it into either of these books.
Not that I remember what I wrote. Just. Fuck. I can't even label this feel. I just want to be involved.
>>7607690
Drop a pebble in a lake.
>>7607690
Read the first ~10 pages of each part, then read the last 30 pages to see what characters are important.
Then read through the whole thing, skipping over parts that seem boring (some of the ones that seem boring are the most fun though)
>>7607677
Amazon adds an insane amount as well, and as someone who has published through lulu you actually make less money from selling it there compared to lulu.
The redditors should be getting their books next week or so, so expect 400 or so newfags for a while :/
>>7607369
It doesn't cost anywhere near 37, OP is retarded
>>7607600
The 50% is always off. Tripfag did that to give us the lowest price possible. Fuck off newfriend
>>7607265
still gold
>>7608813
Should have raised the price for reddit
I can't believe some guy on here is literally rolling around in the money of autistic redditors as we speak
why has this one been such a great commercial success compared to TLOTIAT?
>>7608844
>literally
>>7608844
~$150 buckaroos ($0.3*450)
minus three preview copies
>rolling around in money
How poor are your people
>>7608848
he really is, didn't you see the thread?
>>7608851
Didn't you see the definition of the word "literally"?
>>7608853
>makes a thread a few hours ago where he took out like 50 in $1 bills and rolled around in it
>not literal
okay buddy
>>7608856
What's the point in lying about that?
>>7608859
learn to use the fucking catalog you dumb newfag
>>7608862
Burden of proof is on you, you Sunhawk-tier prat.
>>7608856
Hahaha! Someone really did that? Thread link?
It's not me, the money is still in the lulu account and I have to pay US taxes plus taxes in my country.
>>7608873
I'm not sure what to search for, hypersphere turns up nothing.
>>7608884
That's because he's lying to try and save face about misusing the word "literally" incorrectly. On an anonymous message board.
>>7608887
Literally pathetic
>>7608682
>:/
looks like they're already here
Just wanna let all you phgz kno that it's an honor to be part of something like this. You couldn't do it without me, and I, you. We made it, gang. We fuckin' made it.
>>7608914
Same to you m8
Yo can someone who owns the physical copy post some more screenshots? I want to see how all of the ridiculous formatting came out.
>>7608930
By the way, I'm the one who made all the "screen change" segments, among other things.
>>7608930
Only the first and third edition have been received, the fourth edition (the one with better formatting and the one that actually sold a couple of copies) is still being shipped.
>>7608871
hey trippy why not update the edition already
>>7608968
Just bump the version number without changing anything?
No one has gotten the fourth edition, I'll wait for my fourth edition to arrive and then maaaaybe make some edits from what I see is wrong in the physical copy.
>>7609018
Yeah...
1. Bottleman explicitly doesn't want me to publish that version.
2. What a lot of people don't understand is that you can't just publish a google doc. Editing something in Google docs is super easy, getting a print ready .pdf file is the difficult part (image linking, fonts, OS specific shit1).
I'll go through it when I get my physical fourth edition, and update my .odt accordingly.
-----
1the emojis for instance
>>7608940
That's not true. I have both the second and fourth on my shelf right now.
>>7609197
>inb4 mobilefag
more screenshots please
>>7609198
Oh snap, did you pay for speedy shipping or something?
Daily reminder Tundra is the only /lit/ book and hypersphere is a jew scheme that got shilled on reddit, and everyone who bought tundra is giving money to that redditor who scammed you all kek
>>7609366
>everyone who bought tundra is giving money to that redditor
You goofed you dingus
>>7609349
Nope, I used the free shipping code. I got it last Friday.
>>7607172
>who profits from this
>>7610581
I do. I'll probably lose money since I had to purchase several preview copies though (the lulu account says $200 right now but after taxes etc.). Or make like $50 unless all of america buys it.
It's sold with as low of a margin as possible.
>>7610645
>unless all of america buys it.
Time to promote this, you sunovabitch.
That's a big book. How many paginos?
I wrote some shit for a 'story one sentence at a time' thread. It thread was back in late summer, and someone must've capped it, because it was included almost entirely in one of the earlier iterations of hypersphere. I didn't keep up with the project, but I'm curios to know if my writings survived. I contributed a few odd lines about Slavoj 'slave boy' Zizek engaging in some pretty risque stuff. My style was pretty distinctive, and I coined phrases like 'communist ambulocetus'. So, did any of that make it into the final?
Here's my latest video you chucklefucks.
Hasn't been a thread for a while, but I'm not posting one just for my videos or posting them in unrelated videos.
https://youtu.be/9HpgyoeJtWM
I'm honestly surprised there is a thread this late after the "release."
I blame reddit
>>7610728
unrelated threads*
fuck
>>7610781
Always nice to hear my man.
I need to get in the habit of daily or every other day videos though.
At this rate it'll take me 2 years to finish the book.
oy vey.
>>7607217
>nobody mentioning those chubster hands
Anon take better care of yourself so you can live longer and read more literature!
>>7607574
I headed all tundra projects (sorry about #2) and I don't have any of those skills, just autism.
>>7610728
who the fuck is this faggot?
>>7611085
Me amigo.
I started doing a read through of the meme book a little over a month ago.
Just after the final edit was made and just before the most recent batch of redditors arrived.
I like this way of plugging your book. Make it look like an ordinary post by some random /lit/ter. But you did the right thing. Now people know what to expect. I was curious what it could be about and now i get a feel of its ambience. Cool.
It's a but like the "go back to reddit" marketing slogan. It's a nice way to let people know that they are special if they stay on 4chan but become a normie if they go to reddit. I think it's called differentiation in marketing.
>>7607513
REDDIT PLEASE LEAVE
>>7611079
why are you lying anon
>>7608947
Holy shit, freedom of expression on a new level.
>>7612135
He's not lying. Anonymous headed all of these projects. The question of identity is a moot point.
Can someone save the PDF from the first link here: >>7607549
And upload it to mediafire?
I'm going to read this and have a good few laughs, thanks. (Had problems downloading it from google docs, asking me to save it on different formats, chose pdf and doesn't do jack shit, don't ask, don't know.)
Just got fourth edition from Lulu. I was late for first one. Fuck, I have autism
>>7607239
Are you related to HP Saucecraft
I have no idea what this is.
Am I to assume this a collection of writings from /lit/ and other boards, in print?
New part today, might as well post it because this thread didn't die.
Skeezy Stee regraces us with his presence in this part.
https://youtu.be/jvt9U1NjaZQ
>>7613292
It was a google doc for a couple months that basically anyone on /lit/ could contribute to. It's a wide collection of slightly related stories.
At the end of it all, people voted on what parts to keep, trim, etc.
>>7612859
I was able to save it as a docx and then in Word export it to pdf
