Why the FUCK
do people like this book?
>>7704266
only retards that never read anything good in their lives, like /v/.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IWh1f301Xb0
it was a rollicking fun time lad. loosen up.
>>7704312
Yeah this, seriously
>>7704290
Why would anyone want a ton of money if they can live in any world they choose?
I was in a savers and my last book purchase was going to be on either this or Absalom, Absalom!
I quite virtually felt nauseous going from sampling a page of Faulkner to one of this book.
>>7704274
Not to say that your description doesn't describe /v/, but /v/ hates everything videogame related, especially popular things.
>>7704266
cultural marxism
>>7704325
This is not a popular book like the hunger games, it's not a popular book like game of thrones, it's not a popular book like Enders game even. If you don't read and aren't on /lit/ every day you could conceivably stumble upon this.
>>7704331
funpost and talk about books.
i'm sure i'm more "patrician" than you by whatever spooky perspective you have in any case.
>>7704266
only the redditors who have migrated to /lit/
>>7704290
I can actually feel my blood pressure rising. There's throbbing at the temples. Occasional muscle twitches in my forearms, esp. when she's sings.
Is it common in America to consider histrionic behavior attractive? I am viscerally repulsed by it.
how is it different from snow crash?
>>7704341
I just finished a homosexal love-making session with my french boy-toy at my fathers chateau in Bretagne. We're about to light the opium pipe, and then I'll be reading my first edition of Rimbaud's poetry to him.
But I guess you read Keruoac or Bukowski, no :^)?
>>7704386
hate keruoac, hate bukowski, hate all the beats
>he thinks rimbaud is patrician
wew lad
post pic of boipussy or gtfo pseud
>>7704391
>He doesn't speak french
Vulgar.
It's a plot built on 80's references, but a very well laid one. It's a nowhere near high literature but I still enjoyed it, since it was a breeze to read through in a couple of hours.
>>7704419
>the current state of /lit/
>>7704418
>il pense que je ne parle pas francais
lmao @ votre vie senpai
>>7704266
Ernest Cline is the second coming of Joyce. He transcends the sublime, and every word is filled with weight and allegory. You can read this book from the perspective of any literary or critical theory and it JUST WORKS. The breadth of plot and the lushness of the world developed are outdone only by the masterful weaving of prose around characterization. At times the author veers into descriptions and tangents related to the mythos of the universe and then just when he begins to lose you he grasps you firmly and pulls you RIGHT BACK IN. It is so uncommon when a work of genre fiction crosses over to a literary masterpiece that it is almost jarring, but Cline's only peers in this, Stanislaw Lem and Gene Wolfe, stand as children before a mighty equestrian statue, one that will no doubt stand firm against the sands of time and literary criticism. Nothing less than a master's masterwork.
>>7704449
John Green is the second coming of Joyce. He transcends the sublime, and every word is filled with weight and allegory. You can read this book from the perspective of any literary or critical theory and it JUST WORKS. The breadth of plot and the lushness of the world developed are outdone only by the masterful weaving of prose around characterization. At times the author veers into descriptions and tangents related to the mythos of the universe and then just when he begins to lose you he grasps you firmly and pulls you RIGHT BACK IN. It is so uncommon when a work of genre fiction crosses over to a literary masterpiece that it is almost jarring, but Green's only peers in this, Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, stand as children before a mighty equestrian statue, one that will no doubt stand firm against the sands of time and literary criticism. Nothing less than a master's masterwork.
>>7704468
George R. R. Martin is the second coming of Joyce. He transcends the sublime, and every word is filled with weight and allegory. You can read this book from the perspective of any literary or critical theory and it JUST WORKS. The breadth of plot and the lushness of the world developed are outdone only by the masterful weaving of prose around characterization. At times the author veers into descriptions and tangents related to the mythos of the universe and then just when he begins to lose you he grasps you firmly and pulls you RIGHT BACK IN. It is so uncommon when a work of genre fiction crosses over to a literary masterpiece that it is almost jarring, but Martin's only peers in this, Joe Abercrombie and Steven Erikson, stand as children before a mighty equestrian statue, one that will no doubt stand firm against the sands of time and literary criticism. Nothing less than a master's masterwork.
>>7704310
>>7704386
>I just finished a homosexal love-making session with my french boy-toy
>you will nver experience patrician homo love
why live
>>7704424
what's your argument here? i don't speak meme
>>7704544
my boipussy is tingling just thinking about it
my brother got me this book. he didnt say it was deep or anything. just that it was a lot of fun and a page-turner.
does anyone think the cycle of faggotry on this board will end or will new 15 year old faggots continuously arrive as the last season's faggots become sensible?
>>7704661
Wrong website then
>>7704901
i thought it was only in the summer that 4chan became unbearable. it's really all the time now. it's particularly unbearable here because i cant even explain why /b/ level shitposters are even on this slowass literature board. im probably just getting too old for this shit
>>7704661
My argument is that you are the embodiment of the progressive deterioration of /lit/.
>>7704331
Baiting
>>7704335
You'd be surprised. I bought it before I even came to this board, both the local bookstores near me recommended it.
>>7704913
faggot
>>7705142
what's your argument though? i understand your claim even though its a bit pretentious to think if someone enjoys a book like in OP then they are "the embodiment of the progressive deterioration of /lit/."
i've never read it myself but i might and that doesn't take away the fact the i still enjoy reading challenging literature
so i ask politely, fuck off with your elitism. you're not impressing anyone
>>7704901
No, the newcomers are getting dumber by each wave, and they'll probably only hit their stride by their mid-20s, which is far too long. Most of them are not willing to change for the better, so the only thing we can do is harass them away/hope they get distracted by real life.
>>7705187
Idk his argument, but I'd prefer if you stopped wasting time in this direction.
I read RP1. I figure it's cultural masturbation for idiots who grew up in the 80s and consider it a golden age, and not the cultural backwater that it actually is. I still enjoy trashy literature as entertainment.
>>7705187
>fuck off with your elitism
off yourself, you waste of space
>>7705225
This, you're really not wanted here.
Those caravans sure look comfy as hell though.
>>7704363
its just YouTube, after that swede pewdiepie got famous everybody acts in a forced obnoxious manner. Followers, just like when /lit/ liked IJ and now we all pretend like we were only joking.
>>7705187
Get off our board. Whoever posted that lit imagemacro on r/books is killing this place.
>>7704290
This is everything I hate in the world. I often think about getting a tent, some supplies, and some writing implements as well as my books, and then just going into the woods. I will never have to interact anyone and never see any of this ever again until I die.
What a future I would have.
>>7705225
>>7705232
>>7705240
samefag
if i ever meet a person like you irl i'd call your shit out immediately. how immature can a person be to think someone can't enjoy reading different kinds of literature? honestly im not even gonna respond to you anymore in this thread because its like arguing with a child. i've said what i had to say. you're not impressing anyone.
>>7705254
Not a very long one because you clearly don't have a clue about living in the wilderness.
>>7704944
It's really been unbearable since day one, but it has gotten steadily worse as each "generation" comes here. The older people start moving away for whatever reason (or just sticking out more because their views are not as hive-minded in the new way) and get replaced by those that are here now, and often drowned out.
It happens to almost everything. Personally, I hate change. I also hate "shitposting" and whoever thought of it and contributes to it should be shot.
>>7705264
Good, problem solved. And keep your mouth shut in the future.
>>7705264
1. You're mad
2. You're wrong
3. r/books frequently cited Ernest Cline as a great writer. You are on the wrong board.
>>7705275
No, I've read Into The Wild, I know what I'm doing.
Seriously though, I know quite a lot, I was just being vague for no reason. I have a cabin I built myself somewhere on my property that no one knows about, as well as game to hunt and a stream nearby. Taking some seeds and such, I could most likely survive out there for quite a while when it comes to self-sufficiency on the eating and drinking side of things.
Going insane would be something completely different, but I would take my dog and my books, so there's that.
>>7705217
>I still enjoy trashy literature as entertainment.
This.
I pretty much read it because I wanted to try out my library's digital loan system. The selection was terrible. Will not use the system again. Book was fun in the sense that potato chips are tasty.
>>7705264
i like RPO and i still think you're coming off like a huge autist/sperg
if you can't handle the bantz why are you even here baka desu senpai
Reddit and booktube loves it because
>muh 80's
/lit/ hates it because they hate reddit and whatever is popular nowadays. There is many reasons to why this is not a good book, I just don't think anyone here is aware of any of them.
Overall, the book was ok. Not as good as reddit says, but definitely not as bad as /lit/ thinks.
Also, it's enough to read some post in critique threads to see that people here can't recognize good writing from bad anyways.
>>7705317
one of the few good posts itt
>>7705264
>if i ever meet a person like you irl i'd call your shit out immediately.
how would you go about this? i'm genuinely interested
>>7705327
Same, I'd like to know if how an incoherent dolt like you would go about trying to get his point across.
>>7705317
>lit hates whatever is popular nowadays
I don't think that's necessarily true at all. Bolaño and Wallace are both extremely popular writers. I think lit is an extremely snobby, elitist board (which got thrown around as an insult earlier) but is actually what I like about it. It isn't contrarianism, it's that we can go anywhere else on the Internet to discuss YA sci-if novels filled with nerd culture references.
I get it. I really do. You're all a bunch of friendless, kissless, autists who were always the "quiet" one throughout school. And now that you've found a place where you feel superior, you attack others who like different things like a gazelle surrounded by hyenas. The sad part is, you're all still friendless virgins. You're an anonymous person trying to impress anonymous others. It doesn't help help yourself one bit.
I can safely say that I enjoy difficult and challenging literature, books the likes of Ulysses, Infinite Jest, and Gravity's Rainbow. They all keep a special place in my heart. But you know what? I also enjoy books that most people on /lit/ would hate. Game of Thrones, Ready Player One, Murakami, etc.
Liking those aforementioned books doesn't make me inferior to those who don't, in fact, in a way it makes me superior, because I can actually make arguments why or why not I enjoy those books because I've actually read them. Your argument for not liking them is "reddit likes them so fuck off to reddit".
Its childish and immature, but I guess that's what you have to expect when you're dealing with a group of mildly autistic neets.
>the likes of Ulysses, Infinite Jest, and Gravity's Rainbow. They all keep a special place in my heart. But you know what? I also enjoy books that most people on /lit/ would hate. Game of Thrones, Ready Player One, Murakami, etc.
Everyone here has read all or most of those. You're nothing special, fledgling newfag.
>>7704274
>implying /v/irgns like Cline any more than /lit/
You do realize /v/ is still a board on 4chan, right? Tastes don't vary that much from board to board, at least not nearly as much as they do from 4chan as a whole to other sites.
>>7705317
I don't hate it because reddit hates it at all though. I first read it when my younger brother pushed it on me years ago, before it was being talked about semi-regularly. I got about halfway but couldn't stomach anymore, something that has literally never happened to me when reading any other book, not even a 46-chapter long piece of Super Smash Bros. fanfiction that I read on a dare.
The constant nostalgic allusions to the 80's were vapid and shallow on a disgusting level, and the whole fucking conceit that the universe of the semi-distant future revolved around 80's culture was so obviously an excuse for the author to sperg about shitty pop-culture references that he grew up with even though they shouldn't make any sense in context with the timeframe of the story. Can you not see the inherent cringe with a LITERAL entire page that's nothing but a catalogue of things that existed in 80's media? It's like a Tao Lin novel but without the pseudo-irony.
>>7704266
Because it's good, moron. Stop criticize something which is more entertaining than your stupid rage thread.
>>7705384
>he thinks liking ij and gr makes him not a pleb
>he doesn't realize dfw and pynchon are literally r/books tier
wew lad
>>7705384
>Feeling superior because books it's childish and inmature
>So lemme tell you why my reading habits are superior to you losers
>>7705384
I'm married, I just think you are a pseud with bad taste who shops the wall art best selling books section. You don't belong here.
>>7705591
*walmart
haha guys i was joking lol. of course i don't like any popular books! im definitely well read in mostly every sort of dense book there is. trust me ;)
>>7705422
>I don't hate it because reddit hates it at all though.
I assume the last "hates" was "likes".
There is quite a difference between not liking a book and writing long-ass rants about how bad it is, this usually happens when there is some position to be asserted, whether of a particular place or person (how smart we are, how good our literary taste is, how much we know about literature, etc), and considering how much /lit/ seems to care about reddit (I'm not sure if it is reciprocal), it seems that most people have not read the book and talk trash about it because the dislike its audience, i.e r/books. I'm not saying it is good book, but most commentaries about it are more a dislike for its general audience that the story, prose or whatever of the book.
>>7705422
>Can you not see the inherent cringe with a LITERAL entire page that's nothing but a catalogue of things that existed in 80's media?
I wouldn't count that as something against it though. How it is handled and how it fits in the story is more important than cringing because of the many references to the 80's media. This in fact is not strange to literature at all, my prime example would be A Rebours in (some) relation to its time - except that is not a page, but pretty much the whole book. Why such thing appears in the book and how it is used is the important thing - cringing because the author quotes things in 80's media and nothing more is being autistic.
>>7704266
It's 80s nostalgia for people who didn't grow up in the 80s.
Ready Player One is a fun book if you like video games/virtual reality in any way, you don't necessarily need to love the 80s. Sure, some of the people that like it are annoying as FUCK, but that's true for any book.
Its like eating cereal for dinner and wearing pajamas to class. It's jerking off to Facebook and foot porn on your moms computer when she is at the store buying you Funyons and RedBull
>>7705317
>don't know why it's bad
Normally, that is right but in this case I think that /lit/ is right. There is literally a line that goes something like "There ain't no god. It's all a child's fairy tale. Nothin' personnel, kid."
>>7706680
Bitter.
>>7705254
Time to read pic related (no joke, he actually makes good, and eerily prescient points in it)
>>7706891
>and it is future
>>7704426
le kek
>>7704426
rekt
>>7706680
Literally nothing wrong with any of that desu
Buchstäblich reddit in lé nutshéll
I'll just leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWh1f301Xb0
