I heard this was written by a 4channer so I picked it up but haven't started it yet. Did I make a good purchase?

>>24560014 (OP)
Brian Griffin ass book

>>24560014 (OP)
I browse here everyday for years and I never heard of it.

Stop shilling your own book.

>>24560026
There’s an ad I can see on mobile

>>24560026
He ran ads on it you goober

>>24560034
>>24560174
>seeing ads

You're doing it wrong.

>>24560014 (OP)
op if you were the one that wrote it i finally got around to emailing you back a week ago (on your imsickofthis protonmail)

>>24560014 (OP)
>Did I make a good purchase?
Yes it is an extraorindary work of 21st century fiction.

>>24560219
I'm not but he's probably one of the fags in this thread lmao

>>24560216
I love ads. Viewing them gives me a nice feeling of contribution

lol i just sampled the first page ngl the opening sentence was like wow for a shitty self-published book it wasn't like "the protagonist woke up because it was morning" it was instead some weird shit that i had to read three times to parse. also i like that's it's apparently about a loser not some uber rad cyberpunk cynical sex machine in a mustang or whatever shit most 4chan chudlords would try to write. at 9 bucks the price is right, i might actually order this shit next time i get some amazon lol.

>>24560399
ok i read like two more pages this shit rules like one line will seem like bad amateur writing and then next line will be hilarious and then another line will be insightful but before u can reach up to stroke ur chin literarily u get hit with another stinker, but the next line has u laughing and all is forgiven.

>>24560389
probably
im just hoping he reads it, i was a bit too harsh accidentally in the previous email

>>24560399
>>24560436
yep this was my experience as well. the second half gets better but you have to wade though some "boring" parts to get there

>>24560436
Maybe the 2nd edition of this masterpiece will have those parts edited out

>>24560014 (OP)
Wallace Mack is like Thomas Pynchon without the cataracts. .

>>24560497
No no I drive a rincoln

>>24560014 (OP)
arguably THE /lit/ book of the summer. what else comes close. insane bang for buck
>>24560436
has happened on atleast three occasions where I see a chicken bucket and immediately think of the fatty MC with the bucket on his head sitting next to his dog. in stitches everytime
>>24560497
what would be the verb for him. Pynchon is pynched, we could probably have cheesed for when someone gets wallace macked, because, yk

>>24560623
cringe fanboy

>>24560626
problem, chud?

>>24560014 (OP)
This book basically started the whole "Corndog Zen" meme of 2025 when all the retarded boomers started cooking their stadium refreshments on the grill

>>24561664
What do you mean

>>24561841
it's like the big hashtag of 2025 #CorndogZen

>>24560014 (OP)
hey mack daddy, can you tell us about the cover? did you hire a designer or something?

>>24563323
I drew it on my wife’s iPad lmao

>>24564784
>wife
once again having sex and talent positively correlated, sorry chuds

>>24560497
>>24560623
>>24560436
Glad you guys like it. Thanks for reading.

>>24560439

Just saw your message! I will respond soon. Thanks

>>24564788
glad you are married i really didn't expect that. looking forward to your next work

>>24564806
>>24564788
Haha I wrote the first half of the book before I got married and I was drinking a lot. I don’t know if that changes anything.

I basically grew up on 4chan though. I’m in my early 30s so I think I am the oldest of oldfags. I remember posting “milhouse is not a meme” way back in the day. I still love it here. The last real place on the internet. I know the people here will give me real feedback or tell me to kill myself and I would want nothing else

>>24560014 (OP)
2024 was the year of "Brat Summer" a meme we created here to promote Gabe's novel, Brat. And now 2025 is the year of the summer of #CorndogZen. You heard it here first. Now go out and get your corndogs and your girlfriends and get postin their booty dances. We still have a chance to overtake the "where da fans at" toktoks

>>24565632
was that a good book?

>>24560623
By the way for all you fans, Wallace Mack is now doing book signings. Just mail your copy to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington D.C.

>>24566385
im not a burger so i didnt get the joke
i was unironically googling postage rates and the address

>>24566385
if Wallace Mack (pbuh) sends me a page of the exact same size as the book's print with his sign on it that I can graft to the binding, I will pay for it. I don't trust a 4chin author to not just keep my copy if I send it to Him (swt)

>>24566385
Sent

>>24560014 (OP)
Did you end up reading it

>>24568567
Nta but I read the pdf that was floating around and despite some typos it was actually surprisingly solid. Starts funny but quickly becomes kind of dark and incisive. The scene where the drunk guy punches some female influencer in a Walmart was pretty great.

>>24569076
Why do you retards who read pdfs never leave reviews. The book has only one review on goodreads?

>>24569078
kek, unlucky wallace
i read pdfs and used to read physical books so im qualified to answer
i cant be bothered. i look online and if the pdf seems interesting ill download and give it a read, half the time i drop it. theres no commitment there, i didnt spend any money on a physical book so i just couldnt care any less about it even if its a good book (like yours is)
now if i were to pay for something i have to sit on it and think about what book to read and then go out and buy it. im much more invested in it and much more likely to give a review

>>24569164
not the author but it seems like you are trying to force an analogy btn consumables like food and clothes, and books which doesn't work because you would be leaving a review about liking the paper or the cover or the book's new smell, the actual material instead of the readable content which doesn't require purchasing, it's a poor attempt at your lazy justifications

>>24569164
Did you finish Corndog zen?

Wallace here. I’ll reupload the pdf here this evening if anyone wants to read it. Just ask that if you liked it to spread the word or leave a review

>>24570737
Got an epub for us king?

>>24570811
I’ll try and convert it so that it doesn’t get all jacked up. Someone else converted the pdf last time and it put the page numbers in the middle of paragraphs

>>24570811
Hopefully this is better.


https://litter.catbox.moe/5r6ggfp8x02rgk0a.epub

I like the cover art, but the sample i just read wasn't great, and the fact that it opens with "Please don't take this book too seriously." is big fuck off moment. Expecting people to pay real money for a 162 page pamphlet, i'm going to take it seriously, give me something worth reading or it wasn't worth publishing it.

Like the cover though.

>>24571134
1 MackHater with Cheese pls

>>24571134
Fair enough. The main themes of the book are American rot and the brutality of ideology against regular working people. It plays with stereotypes and I didn’t want people who are too into their identity du jour to not be able to see the forest from the trees. If it’s not for you, no worries at all but the introduction is basically a kind of waiver for people who are inclined to get too angry about little things that don’t matter.

>>24571134
Also I posted the link to the free epub if people don’t want to pay.

>>24571151
>>24571167
Hey if it's your book i'll read some more. Like i said i like the cover. You should've proofread better, having an obvious mistake Chapter 1 page 1 isn't great.

>>24571221
I’ll outright admit editing and proof writing isn’t my strong suit. Thanks for reading. I think if you can see past a few typos here you might like it.

>>24571232
If you are intent on getting readers, you should record an audiobook version, put it up on youtube.

>>24571246
Hmm maybe that will be next. Working on my next book currently. It’s much more polished than this one.

>>24571076
not bad

>>24571410
are you going to post it here again?

>>24572624

It’s right here >>24571076 playa

What’s the plot?

>>24574472
Maybe read the summary available anywhere the book is listed, retard

>>24574778
Not the right way to get people to read your book, Wally.

>>24574788
N. T. A.

>>24574788
Wallace here. That wasn't me. RUDE anon speaking for me. Risk i have to take here.

>>24560025
Family Guy ass post

>>24574802
So what is your book about?

>>24575913
Poor, stupid people who get wrapped up in the changing political and social tides of an absurd reality. Bad deals with cartels, social media smear campaigns by dumb bimbos, lots of drinking. Supposed to inspire the reader to have a little more compassion for the people who are out of the loop and constantly mocked because they probably can't help it. Parts of it are also pretty funny.

>>24575977
An appeal to sonder.
A fitting title too.
As a poor myself, I wonder how you depict the inescapability of the political discussion. Is it based on authentic information or is it created by your guesses?

>>24575985
>Is it based on authentic information or is it created by your guesses?

I grew up pretty middle class but I feel like I know the poor pretty well. I worked in factories, was a deck hand for a few summers, served beer at a flea market concession stand, worked in an ER that served rural poor and homeless.

Some might feel like I'm punching down a little bit. Spending time with poor people in the US, you realize that much of their suffering is their own fault, but also that this doesn't necessarily make them any less of victims if that's all their capacity was.

I wrap it up with humor. Kat, the female protagonist, is being replaced at her customer service Wal-Mart job by a shitty automated robot. She gets into a tiff with a social justice warrior type, and the event goes viral, mocking the uncultured white trash at Walmart. She goes home to her trailer park days later, and there is a protest outside the trailer park. Things like that. It mocks everyone in the milieu.

It's supposed to be absurd but human. Someone once in another thread about the book metioned it reminded him of The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona and I was so glad to hear that because those were major influences on me.

why would i read this tell me

>>24560399
>>24560436
This is very obviously the author of the book. I promise you are going to be embarrassed about this later.

>>24576152
Genuinely wasn’t me. I start threads every now and then but I don’t hype myself up.

>>24576158
Yeah I recognize this act because I’ve done it before. You aren’t fooling anyone, not even yourself.

>>24576133
actually dont. I just bought your book. I paid 12 canadian pesos for it. If it is trash I will leave it somewhere for someone to find, and if it is good, I will leave it in a park for someone to find, but I will have read it.

I bought it because I read a sample from this book called dead inside and I hated that sample so fucking much, I hope your writing is not like that guys. I did not read a sample of your book.

>>24576166
You can think what you want. Wasn’t me though. The only shilling I do is occasionally starting a thread and then posting a link to the book. I’ll post “buy an ad” if I want to bump it.

>>24560216
Outside of 4chan the literal only ad I have ever taken notice of was a re-release of Coraline. Here at least 10% of the ads are actually something I want to see instead of just all of them being wortless.

>>24576172
Thanks! I hope you like it. Any feedback is good feedback so thanks again for purchasing it. See >>24576011 if you want a taste of what it’s about

How am I supposed to go from reading something like “stoner” or a “tale of two cities” to “LE heckin hotdog zen?

>>24576215
It would certainly be a change lol

>>24576176
This is what F Gardner says when people call him out.

>>24576900
F Gardner would blame it on the Jews.

>>24570737
Where can I find the pdf, artiste?

>>24576176
>I’ll post “buy an ad” if I want to bump it
kek based

Thanks for the epub. Read a few pages.

Nah deadass this thread is kinda sweet lol. Like I mean that the author is shilling so openly, and is nice and sincere about it.
Deadass cuh, I’m a zoomer and I’ve never read a book in its entirety in my life (i come here for e based and redpilled memes, fr), but no cap I might read this. Because you gave the link a free epub so I don’t have to spend money on it.

>>24577323
It's right here >>24571076

>>24577372
No prob. Hope you enjoy it.

>>24577449
Thanks lol. Someone is going to say that I am samefagging this post lmao. I do hope you read it and enjoy it though. It's a quick read and might be a good introduction to getting into reading.