What's the cringiest book you have ever read?
Pic rel actually especially when it turns out that one od main caracters is a black lesbo. Also dead guy is jobs and fat guy is stallman.
Anything by John Green.
God is dead.
>>7787100
You dumb nigger, this thread almost died.
>>7787100
This. Nietzsche was an assburger.
>>7786531
anything by joyce.
>>7786531
Is it worth reading?
You posted it.
To be fair, I haven't actually read it, but that thread we had a while back where an anon posted excerpts... God, it was just awful
I read like 30 pages of an acquaintances self published fantasy novel. It was drek.
>>7787132
Half the point of the book is that it's full of pop culture. It's about the mythologization of nostalgia.
You'd realize that if you read the fucking book
>>7787157
>It's about the mythologization of nostalgia.
And? What does it do with that? Nothing, it's played completely straight.
>>7787174
It's about a generation of people who grew up learning about the pop culture of another century and developed a religious devotion to memorizing, analyzing and recontextualizing it because it gives meaning to their own horrible lives.
to the people who lived in 80s that was a phase of their life and source of nostalgia, but these characters have never known what it was to live in this decade and instead relearn a way of life through its history and entertainment
If that doesn't satisfy you, you could just as easily say it's about being a fan theorist. That's the way I like to interpret it, and since I take pride in the same autistic mental gymnastics, this book gives me the fantasy of a true reward for theorizing and speculation
>>7786531
I hated that book. Never have I wanted to punch an author so badly.
>>7787225
hah caught one
>>7786531
It's like the author thinks watching, reading, listening, being such a rabid consumer to the point of knowing the most trivial things about mainstream entertainment, is a good thing.
I really hated it.
>>7787225
I can see why you liked it, and what you wrote is part of what I liked about that world as well: sacred media from a forgotten era, the words of a dead man treated like gospel, a search that spans an entire (virtual) universe.
But I was let down. It's a great premise that most of the time is just a vehicle for the author to geek out about the things he likes. The fact that I also happen to like many of those things as well only made me feel more dissapointed.
>>7787225
>It's about a generation of people who grew up learning about the pop culture of another century and developed a religious devotion to memorizing, analyzing and recontextualizing it because it gives meaning to their own horrible lives.
The only reason they were so obsessed with the 80's culture was the hunt. Otherwise, OASIS works perfectly as escapism for their shitty lives regardless. All the references passes as the author pointing out stuff that everyone else already likes to be likeable and seem interesting, when in reality he is just lazy an unimaginative.
In a virtual universe with thousand of worlds, all of them are references to things that already exits, which diminishes the true potential of the book.
Biggest mistake of my life
I cringed a lot reading The Secret History. Which is odd because my opinion of it is generally favorable.
>>7786531
Game of Thrones. Not kidding.
If I was more sentimental, I might have cried on account of what that man has done to the fantasy genre.
