I'm listing works by /lit/ users. (Individual authors with their own books rather than anonymous amalgamations like The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.)What are your thoughts on these works? Have you read them? Will you read them? What other books should I add?
>>24960663I participated in the Coronameron, with a story written in the last 45 minutes before the deadline and filled with typos lol
The opportunity cost is way too high. I would rather read Pynchon or work through my backlog than waste a second on this sloppa.
>>24960666Great job anon. Do you have a book?>>24960670You could be missing out on the next Pynchon.
>>24960673No, Coronameron was one of those anonymous amalgamations
>>24960675>NoYou should change that, anon
have you read any of them before asking for opinions or are you just another attention whore, it would be infinitely better to start a thread after reading all of them, then list about what they made you feel, instead this thread is going to be flooded by low quality posts about how shitty they are and how no one should waste their time, etc, you guys really need to learn to make quality threads and discussions
>>24960678Maybe one day...
Big list of /lit/ novels here: https://lampbylit.com/magazine/authors/
I read Eggplant. I liked it, it had some good stuff in there. My only problem is how vague it was about what was actually happening at any given moment. And then it kinda just ended.
>>24960800Yeah, Ogden Nesmer is kind of notorious (within very limited circles, of course) for not knowing how to write an ending.
>>24960833you're Ogden NesmerI'll probably read your other books at some point. you nice, even though I bought a copy you did give a ebook for free.
>>24960851If I was he, why would I insult his inability to write an ending? Try again.
>>24960663Corndog Zen is very rough around the edges, but I liked it. Mixtape Hyperborea is very good.>>24960800I've read Eggplant, I Pray to the Hungry God, and the Bath Procession by Ogden. I preferred the latter two.Both Corndog and Eggplant felt like first novels, but likewise made me interested in reading more from the authors, which worked out well with Ogden. Wallace Mack says he's working on a new novel (and I also know he writes poetry), so I'm hopeful it'll be a big improvement. I'm curious about what follows Mixtape Hyperborea, besides the radio play? he's put out (which I can't convince myself to be interested in); Mixtape relies a lot on its schtick of in-situ dude humour, which I thought was hilarious at times, but its own "first novel" pitfalls were when it came too close to more explicit, self-serious commentary on masculinity, which seems like a trap Adem could fall into again. In Eggplant there were moments of heavy-handed philosophising that felt similarly out of place, where you can tell it's the author speaking rather than the novel, but Adem's felt way more ideological.
If I were to publish under my birth given female name, would you blokes throw my novel in the trash?
>>24961362Maybe if you just write a bunch of vapid relationship drama. I understand how women come to believe the entire world revolves around their vagina—because, from your point of view, it does—but you need to rise above that tired cliché if you want to engage male readers.
>>24961366My novel has absolutely zero romance at all. And I will take that snarky response as a yes. I appreciate the feedback.
>>24960682>Corndog ZenWorth a read, I reccomend it>Dance of the Lizard's TaleWorth a try, but it's not for everyone>Six Days in the Life of Character NameEh. Didn't grab me>CascadiaNot very interesting and possibly LLM-generated >Call of the Crocodile lol
>>24961362I wouldn't but many would
>>24961382>>Dance of the Lizard's TaleHow far did you get?
I’m querying with agents now, so we’ll see if I get published and added to the list in the future.Although, I don’t know if being connected to /lit might be to my detriment. But as I get older, I care a lot less about my digital footprint and posting history.
>>24961362>ynwbaw>tits or gtfoI would never read a bonus hole authored book
>>24961408lol all those books in the OP are self-published. This board barely tolerates self-pubbed authors and has even less interest in any traditionally published contemporaries, if not outright hostility.>/lit/lit/
>>24961440What choice do we have, apart from self-publishing? Also, it's not like tradpubbing actually works anymore.
>>24961396Not far at all. It's on the upper class of schizobabble but still schizobabble
>>24961428Anon didn't say he's female, just that he was given a female name at birth.
>>24961408Best of luck anon. Reminder to take rejection in stride.
>>24961371Hope it helps. And glad to hear you're not writing relationship drama. Apple's "The Last Frontier" started out with an interesting premise, but devolved into relationship drama, and got canceled after its first season, so I'm not the only one tired of this.
>>24961440Uploading book to Amazon KDP barely counts as self-publishing. It's more akin to posting on a webnovel site, except the platform won't do shit to get you readers.
>I'm listing works by /lit/ users except for the good one just because I'm only here to shill the goyslop authored by the grifters on my discord serverOr, to put it another way>this is a thread of books by 4chan EXCEPT those written by Anonymous
>>24961554This thread is not for books by 4chan as explicitly stated in the OP. It's for books by those who happen to use 4chan>goyslop authored by griftersI guarantee you haven't even attempt to read any of those books
>>24961547Amazon KDP allows people (including the author) to order any quantity of nicely put-together paperback copies for a very reasonable price.
>>24961505>picThe statistics she's citing are sales in a year for any book, not total sales nor first-year sales for new books. See pic related.>>24961554They're entirely different categories. The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra has nothing in common with the books in the OP, and even if you talked about /lit/ zines where named authors have submitted their stories they're still vastly different in intent.
>>24961561I have, that's why I know. All their authors are on a common discord server and constantly shill each other
>>24961654It's important to differentiate between categories of numbers in such statistics. But one fact remains, even a good bookstore only has so much space and only so much options given by publishers. What's offered in store is a tiny percent of what's on the market. So, every /lit/izen who only takes from such a small pool instead of the ocean, misses out on a unique and probably better reading journey. To stretch this metaphor even wider, you can also ask your favourite shop to get some shit from the ocean to the pool. With previews readily available, I never regretted going off the beaten path.
>>24961382This was my experience as well. Gardner is worth it for a laugh. Call of the Kabbalah was genuinely hilarious.
>>24961508Guy who wrote it kind of had a bad reaction to feedback. I read the first chapter and it was too confusing to follow. I told him this and he just said Im a lazy reader. It’s genuinely too cryptic and disconnected to follow
>>24961673>I have>All their authors are on a common discord server
>>24961700They're the kinds of books you can laugh at but not with.
Mixtape Hyperborea was pretty good. So was Tall Sewer.
Alright, so before Woolston inevitably bumbles drunkenly into this thread to shill his book. Has anyone actually read him? Is he decent?
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>>24960663>What other books should I add?BOM
>>24961773>MIXTAPE HYPERBOREA is an irreverent, nostalgic, and unique work of literary brilliance. Return to the halls, classrooms, and parking lots of Golden Sierra Preparatory Academy. The year is 2007. Welcome to the future. This tells me nothing and the rest is just reviews but on Amazon the description is better>The year is 2007. A group of young men find themselves approaching the end of something. There is a soundtrack that accompanies a series of repressed memories. There is an intermission. There is almost zero plot. It will be over a lot sooner than you think. You are in no rush. You are in the opposite of a rush.I feel much better informed about what I'm getting into after reading this version of the description. Will check this out.>TALL SEWER will not make you smarter, it will not make you a better person, you will not learn anything, if anything you might become dumber>Designed for our declining attention spans and accelerating need for dopamine, TALL SEWER keeps the energy up with short chaptersSo someone made TikTok into a book? Interesting, will give it a try >>24961779>WoolstonWho?>>24962089>BOMWhat?
>>24961508I thought it was about trannies, at first. There's a ton of dark stuff like mutilations and sacrifice, but told in a very cryptic manner. On the surface, it's a book about a man/creature/ghost writing a book. The second scene in the first chapter is the first part of this, but written with errors, as a draft. I think that's why the author was so insistent on not changing that part. I remember that thread. I think this mutilation, lizard's tail, etc means the book needs to be read as though you were piecing together these mutilated stumps. So you need to derive an individual sense of meaning from each scene then connect it to the next scene that makes the most sense to you. That's what I got anyway.
>>24962348You could be right. That's why I'm hesitant to give it a default "no" unlike something by F. Gardner, for instance. I don't enjoy that experience of piecing together those mutilated stumps, but I'm betting others out there would.
>>24960663>>24960663>>24960663ATTENTION:Listen to the following podcast to get a COMPREHENSIVE DETAILING of any and all /lit/ authors from the inception of the board to the modern day:https://youtu.be/KlOkG5lEpw0?si=vMmZ4wQrdD4_9w1TAnd view this supporting text document:https://i.poastcdn.org/ff/8c/dd/ff8cdd7e24ea59673e1e1603b1a9d0ee4c3647c7c223dca64e6078b14d47781f.txt
>>24962383It's written in a zooming in and out manner. Some chapters zoom in on a single theme or a single character, in a sense that leaves you concentrating on something that seemingly has nothing to do with whatever else you read on a previous scene, while other chapters zoom out and include everything you've read or were expecting to read. it's like reading two completely different books at once that have nothing to do with each other and yet after some time, they do, then after that they don't, etc.
>>24962406Unfortunately Gardner is a faggot and doesn’t count as a writer
>>24962348Is this Sinner's Descent? I heard it was really good. Everybody at my local Caribou where talking about this afternoon.
>>24962398>Gang Weed the Movie (Joker) screenplayNani? What was this about?
>>24962417A collaborative neovella script.
>>24962415No, we're discussing >>24961396. As for Sinner's Descent, tell them there's gonna be an audiobook and another novella at some point
>>24962409No I'm talking about the lizard book. There's some really good parts, but you have to work to get to them which suggests that they are not the point of the book. Then there's some confusing ones which makes you wonder whether the book was even written by a single person. For instance there's a part that mentions how humans and plants are the illegitimate children borne through the conflict of a giant lizard known as Mosefu and giant obsidian rock creatures called the Natefu. They came out of his tail after these creatures cut it off. And this is written by the protagonist which is funny because it's the most coherent part of this book. Then there's other parts telling how human pain/suffering is a conserved quantity. That no human suffers more than another and that technology, language, philosophy, politics, and all our inventions try to but never change this. There's a lot about legitimacy, suffering, mutilation, children and mothers, etc, but you have to learn how to read it, only there's no manual available.
I liked The beautiful kingdom
>>24962431My bad, it was actually a Bible study group and they were talking about some other sinner's descent. I will still tell them about the audiobook tho
>>24963028It was truly a masterpiece. Whenever I see live chickens today I still think fondly of The Beautiful Kingdom.
>>24962409All good writers are faggots
>>24963147But they aren't non-readers and don't use AI to shit out books and then get permabanned from posting on 4chan for constantly advertising their books in their posts, even with them being a cash cow for the site in terms of always bidding the highest for ads
>>24963140>>24963028What is Wing working on now? I read Serenity and it was decent. From historical fiction to fantasy was jarring. Though. He should write a historical fantasy
>>24963251Well he did write that science fiction piece the Night of Valhrona, which is supposed to be incredible
>>24961362Yes.
>>24963251>>24963251Based KK Wing Enjoyer
>>24961348I think Mack is getting better. I checked his X page and it looks like he got a horror story featured on some Substack. The writing has improved.https://open.substack.com/pub/nemesisfiction/p/field-report-rostrum-obliterans
Can't forget about Brat, or Femoid.
>>24960663>>24960715I wrote a high fantasy book, mostly post in /wng/ and /sffg/. It’s self published but I did manage to sell over a hunnerd copies (137 as of today), if you wanna add me to your list https://a.co/d/gkdzw6iAnd here is the epub if anyone wants it https://mega.nz/file/s1hhnBRT#q91hULb8eBQnbvt8YZYH9Yql2qeuLHM1u38hU4U9NPk
>>24960663>No Ogden Nesmer>No Lewis Woolston>No Zulu Alitspa2025 + forgotten…
>>24960663F. Gardner is fucking batshit insane. Absolute fucking looney tunes.
>>24960663next year the Mack (pbuh) will come out with the greatest piece of literary fiction yet, cementing corndog zen summer for two years atleast
>>24965185Is it Victoria?
>>24964892>BratThe best novel I've read from a /lit/ user, but the (rare) traditionall published author from /lit/ is in a completely separate category for me compared to the rest of the guys here. Self-published authors on here are amateur and generally unproven, and aren't likely to be receiving any professional editing. There's likely to be much more significant change in their abilities as their works go on, and I think it demands a different type of reading. Anyway, I'd love to read more from Gabriel Smith.>FemoidNever released, and also got taken off the McBussy site. I read the previews that were available and didn't make much of it, and found it hard to take seriously when the author claimed it was a genuine work while also admitting he was trying to make it as offensive as possible to fuck with his original editor/publisher.>>24961779The Femoid author is the only person I've heard say they've read Woolston's books on here, and it's because Woolston gave him a blurb. In fact he came here saying "[Femoid is] endorsed by Woolston, which is very funny to me. All he said about Woolston was>he's a good dude, and I respect his hustleand promised to elaborate more later but never did. "I respect his hustle" feels like one of the worst things to say when asked about someone's books. On the flip side, Woolston was cited by name in the intro of an article on a popular Substack some guys in my city write, which baffled me.
>>24961760Reddit
>>24963919>>24965185Everybody in Kolkata is waiting for the new book. Big Guru Daddy Mack for the win.
>>24965254good post
>>24961779He is the greatest Australian writer in the Lo-Fi space.
>>24967882Better even than Arcy Waldern?
>>24969395Maybe he's #2 then.
Isn't there also that guy who did that poetry ruse?
>>24962502Did you ever even take our feedback and edit this book?
>>24969777Editors are expensive anon. I can't afford one at the moment. I've given up ever selling it so might as well shill it to the few who might find the ideas meaningful.
>>24970228>Editors are expensiveyou're supposed to do it yourself. just have patience and work at it little by little
>>24970293That's the point. I don't have the patience for writing anymore. I am currently building something else. Writing for me was a way to make some of the difficult thoughts I've had throughout the years, more coherent by allowing them to be presented decoherently. It was very rewarding to do that, but it was never supposed to be a career.
>>24960663So apparently Sinner's Descent is now climbing the prediction charts for /lit book of the year. Corn Dog Zen may not win it after all.
>>24970315No love for Woolston this year?
>>24970307>I am currently building something elseI hope it is a boat to England. We are all rooting for you, fren.
>>24960833I wanted the Hungry God book to be more like Things Fall Apart
>>24970727How do you bongbros survive in that socialist hellhole? Do you live in some nice country cotttage?
Please consider this to be from a /lit/ user, even though I have yet to translate it into english.
>>24971374didn't you share some of this in English?
Anyone want to beta read this and tell me where you stopped reading? I'm hoping someone gets to Chapter 10.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDmtTCFh1DPUPqj9Qfy8zPHlMLaL-2ul8vD3MdkLvos/edit?usp=sharing
>>24971640what are some books you have read on writing?
