Just finished the novel. It packed some punch, it was absolutely terrifying. It reaches something I was searching in fiction that had never been correctly shown. The idea of an ever rapidly fading literature on the internet, unattached to a public ego, ultra-isolation and so on…Sadly I couldn't concentrate while reading the novel because my head hurt more and more each page I was reading; I believe it is because it made me remember a bit of the things I had forgotten and that something inside me would prefer to keep forgotten.
>>24693997Read this recently as well. What do you make of his relationship with his mother? Couldn’t help but feel there was a certain ironic distance that Yeager was holding from /1404/er’s characterization in this aspect since an oedipus complex is so awfully simplistic if offered as an explanation or related in any way to the deep psychological turmoil which this character represents. It almost felt like a cynical anti-explanation?
>>24694046I get what you say but I'd characterize it more as just a distance without irony. Maybe the irony stems from the mother being in a classical oedipian dynamic but /1404er/ may be too alienated from anything to truly reach the level of embodiment and humanity necessary for his desires to materialize a truly oedipian.Tell me what you think
>>24694046He doesn't and cannot have a body anymore. Neither does his desired mother.
>>24693997Got a copy of this off libgen a few weeks ago, guess I need to read it. Is Yeager's other work worth checking out?
>>24694093I read both and quite enjoyed Negative Space. It’s like a weird fiction version of It with a lot of really compelling passages. I connected a lot with the apathy of the principal characters and the general horror of being emotionally dead but it’s not for everybody. Some would probably find it a little too newgen
>>24694093The only other published novel of his is negative if I'm not mistaken. I'll definitely read it. But don't know what it's worth
>>24694382He also has a third book out; long cringy title with fuck in it iirc
>>24694919It's a collection of short stories and most of 'em were already published online.Wouldn’t purchase that first
Bump. I'd still like to discuss this book
>>24696379Thanks for the thread. I'll read this book.
>>24696679Nice. Since it's a good book, it's also more than I what I described it to be. Hope you'll appreciate it too
Stop shilling your crappy book. Irealized that 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.So not only did you not transcend 12-year-old edgelord crap, but you couldn't even come up with an original plot. No wonder you seethe and spam mindlessly.
>>24699003Yeager's a shill but you sound like a dipshit.
>>24693997From the sample I read it seems like a decent approximation of chan culture but why would I want to read about something I'm already familiar with?
