So all his books are just complaints about women and how he can't fuck because he's old and how much better things were in the past?He seems to love self-loathing but offers no solutions for the future.
>>24742116He’s double divorced and has a cute young Chinese fan girl wife now. In fact his acquisition of young Chinese pussy may very well be what motivated the relatively positive ending of his latest book that love and family are the sole consolation in this gay Earth, and also probably his decision to retire from writing novels.
He's a writer, not a politician. He isn't required to offer solutions to the problems he diagnoses and describes and it wouldn't improve his writing if he did.
>>24742116Is this guy just perpetually chain smoking at all times or does he light them up for the pictures?
>>24742157Both. He also drinks alot
>>24742116his books are not about any of those things you've mentioned, it's an oversimplification.
I've begun reading atomised (is that what it's called in english?). What was so uniquely good or new about it?I've heard a lot of people speak so enthusiastically about it, but I don't seem to get it (yet).
>>24742116please understand, you are a midwit at best; if you find yourself reducing novels, you should reflect. you don't have to simplify and compartmentalize everything. actually use your brain.
>>24742316maybe take your time w/ (your reading) before you ask chatgpt
>>24742327I'm asking the superior meatsacks not the inferior clankers
>>24742116I think the self-help genre is more your speed. STAY HARD
>>24742142Speak for yourself
>>24742343i suggest taking your time regardless. trying to identify what the author was doing, the themes, whatever you can infer, BEFORE asking for some consensus or whatever, is a great way to improve your experience and what you come away with
>>24742394I'm not asking for consensus, I'm asking for personal opinions of anons that frequent /lit/I was asking, because I didn't read it in its time. I'm reading it now. So some things that may seem common now may have been innovated then. And also because I like having one or more paradigms of viewing it to lay aside the work as I'm going through it and see if I agree or come away with something completely different. This extra layer enhances the experience for me, which is why I asked for it. It's fine if you don't want to help me with what I'm asking for, but it is presumptuous that you think you know better how to enhance my experience than I would myself.
>>24742426>justifying the terrible epidemic of cognitive outsourcingwhatever
>>24742426>>24742433to be clear i understand what you're saying. my issue is that you havent finished the novel. you have a unique position that you can not get back, of being uninfluenced
>>24742435>>24742433I think it's an illusion anyways. We are always influenced. We have a reason to pick up the book. Right now I'm reading it while hungry, while going through a lot of family health stuff, while having gone through a bad break-up. While having an interest in finishing up my backlog of books so I'll have room for some new directions in reading.You think my experience of the novel would be uninfluenced? Then if I read the same thing again in 20 years, I might be fully committed to being a bachelor or I might be in a long term relationship and have a completely different read and experience of it. The exact composition of our lives and perception always influences it anyways.I get that you don't want people to all walk the same path and parrot the same things, but that's not what I do anyways.I'm interested in hearing other's experiences because I want to reflect on them, test them, possibly even disprove some hypotheses.Another example is that I spent years working on shakespeare plays. Just because you know how it's going to go, doesn't mean it isn't a fresh experience every time. Of course it's with different people and different interpretations of the work, but with books too, you're a different person each time you read a book.So, who had a good experience reading atomised? When did you read it? What was special about it?
>>24742510Hello there. I like the book. I read it about a year ago. >What was special about it?This is pretty much the only contemporary book novel I have read, so I can't compare it others and say what is special about it. But I think he shows a good understanding of the modern society. A few parts were pretty boring (all the talk about the childhood and the fucking in the camp) and I didn't really understand where he was going with this. But reading it completely kind of closes the circle. But still not really. Something still feels eerie but I can't put my finger around it. The critique of aftermath of the protests of 1968, the talk about Huxley in that one chapter and the ending probably kind of made the book special for me. This book has a little similarity in some sense with the reading experience to Kafka The Trial. Reading The Trial itself was incredibly boring. But when I finished it and looked back at it, it kind of felt like a masterpiece. I am not saying that atomised is a masterpiece and comes close to Kafkas. But looking back at it it was worth the read. Motivated me to read more of him.
