Thread 24600279

Anyone else read this? Eerie, like looking into a mirror and seeing someone who isn't you but should be

yeah i thought it was really unique, not like anything ive read previously

>>24601323
Have you only read 10 books in your life?

>>24600279 (OP)
isn't he a woke man who wrote about trannies

>>24600279 (OP)
Not great exactly but pretty unpleasant and put me in a bad mood, which is what it was going for. The Sluts by Dennis Cooper is like a better version of it though

>>24600279 (OP)
I believe techno-horror (like Amygdalatropolis) is the only cutting edge area in modern literature. It's the only type of fiction that is actually grappling effectively with the problems of the modern age. Most contemporary fiction is woefully nostalgic for a bygone age, addressing problems or situations that are no longer relevant. Most writers are in effect ostriches burying their heads in the sand while the world changes around them. Books like Amygdalatropolis, The Sluts, No One is Talking About this, some of Houellebecq's work, are the only interesting and relevant fiction these days.

Adtomarlyloigaps? Interesting title

>>24601543
>addressing problems or situations that are relevant.
thankfully this has nothing to do with what makes good literature. tho a good writer should be as perceptive as possible, including to his own age.

>>24600279 (OP)
Yes I read it. It is very rough around the edges and I don't think it had any of the wit or subversiveness of Behead All Satans or The Tainted Turd. It's sad the author of those books opted for slapstick chan humour because cleaned up just slightly and they would have been great postmodern literature for the 2010's. Sadly they are dated now and this new crop, such as AMY- falls short in representing the current zeitgeist.

>>24600279 (OP)
>IT professional ignores his family and is chronically online
Many such cases.

>>24601649
you know everyone instantly recognizes this as shilling right?

>>24601661
For what? BAS? There are PDFs of it for free everywhere and AFAIK he doesn't write anymore. Those two books he put out BTFO Yeager's work. I've actually read all of the books Yeager has put out, and he has a long way to go. I am glad he is trying though.

>>24601636
good job immediately contradicting yourself

>>24601718
rekt

>>24601636
>Good art, but not necessarily great art; the distinction between great art and good art depending immediately, as regards literature at all events, not on its form, but on the matter. Thackeray's Esmond, surely, is greater art than Vanity Fair, by the greater dignity of its interests. It is on the quality of the matter it informs or controls, its compass, its variety, its alliance to great ends, or the depth of the note of revolt, or the largeness of hope in it, that the greatness of literary art depends, as The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Les Misérables, The English Bible, are great art. Given the conditions I have tried to explain as constituting good art;—then, if it be devoted further to the increase of men's happiness, to the redemption of the oppressed, or the enlargement of our sympathies with each other, or to such presentment of new or old truth about ourselves and our relation to the world as may ennoble and fortify us in our sojourn here, or immediately, as with Dante, to the glory of God, it will be also great art; if, over and above those qualities I summed up as mind and soul—that colour and mystic perfume, and that reasonable structure, it has something of the soul of humanity in it, and finds its logical, its architectural place, in the great structure of human life. ---- Walter Pater, APPRECIATIONS, WITH AN ESSAY ON STYLE

>>24600279 (OP)
What is that cover? Spaghetti in a poopy colon?

>>24600279 (OP)
it was mediocre. he doesn't really has any more of an insight into chan culture than your average normie. negative space was better even if it did some dumb shit like ending every chapter with "and 156 people in town killed themselves that weekend"

>>24601649
>>24602510
these

>>24601543
You have such mediocre taste it’s quite remarkable

Amygdalatropolis' major story beats were all patterned after Houellebecq's "Whatever".
• Both feature incels employed in the technology field.
• Whatever's narrator contemplates having sex with one of his clients, but can't bear to actually do it. Its narrator fantasizes about slipping a roofie to his mother and raping her, and comes close, but can't go through with it.
• Whatever's narrator seethes about sexual liberation and how it's left him sexually destitute. Its narrator is such an incel that he literally can't get it up anymore.
• Whatever's narrator is hospitalized for a heart condition. Its narrator experiences both of his parents dying from cancer.
• Whatever's narrator tries to talk his friend into killing a woman that they encountered at a night club. Its narrator orders a sex doll and, instead of having sex with it, rips it to pieces while screaming about how it's a slut.
• Whatever's narrator ends up in a mental institution. Its narrator completely loses his mind and destroys his house in an attempt to repel a centipede infestation.
• At the end, Whatever's narrator tries to unwind by vacationing in the forest. Its narrator tries to unwind by looking at a bunch of webcams showing pastoral areas.
Plus it tries to be edgy, by doing stuff that has became boring a long time ago.
• The narrator tries to fuck his mom. But that was done about 2500 years ago in "Oedipux Rex" by Sophocles.
• The narrator watches a video of someone drowning a baby. But that was done in 1960 in "Rabbit, Run" by John Updike.
I could go on, but bleah.

>>24602404
terrible take. not only is "matter" just a part of form, but people like this fall for the cheapest art. great art creates its own internal significances. it doesnt take for granted any trite "grand" issue without putting in the effort for detail, harmony, originality.

it's ok.

>>24603283
rekt