Why doesn't /lit/ ever discuss Atticus Lish's novel "Preparations for the Next Life"?
Anybody here read it?
>"surprise" "indie" hit
>by the son of über-editor Gordon Lish
uh-uh
waiting for official 4chan approval before falling for shadowmarketing, desu
>>7737771
jesus christ. i mean i understand your cynicism but you could also like, you know, try a few pages for yourself and decide that way right? honestly just read the first page and tell me that isn't good...
anyway...
i bought this book last year, read 100 pages of it, really enjoyed it, and then fucking LOST IT...looked for it for two days EVERYWHERE. so someone fucking stole it goddamnit...
but yeah. i like lish's style. pretty perfect mix of minimalism/maximalism. he manages to make 3rd person narration more about the WORLD than about the VOICE which is rare nowadays (while keeping the prose complex)...and which is also big gripe for me (i blame notes from underground).
what did you think OP?
PS if anyone has a pirated copy of this that would be sweet, i don't really want to buy a second copy, even though i probably will
>>7738245
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/?s=atticus+lish
I just remember being repelled by the summary and not reading it.
>>7738552
yeah, fair enough. it does sound kind of trite, like if you're friend told you they were writing a book about an obscure chinese minority immigrating to the US and falling in love with a fucked up iraqi war vet and you're friend was a middle aged white dude, you would probably be like '...alright.'
but the guy's a good writer. and the execution, at least as far as i read, is pretty good. a little overwritten for my taste, but still.
and thanks for the link by the way, saved me a couple bucks. i appreciate it..!
>>7737417
i read it, yes
I enjoyed it, it is not comparable to say, McCarthy, for example but for a first novel it is not bad. I'm looking forward to what he does next.
Sure is shilly in here.
>>7739972
>mfw there is literally a pirated copy in this thread
>>7739921
>middle-aged white dude
Fuck off SJW. Atticus Lish worked entry-level jobs for a decade, was in the marines and so on before writing this while working as a translator.
