>>25424965
Is that book any good? From the cover it looks like Chad’s story about fucking the entire female gender through Tinder

>>25425678
It actually is just deep recountings of nasty and violent gay sex, and one prostitute in particular.
It also is exactly like reading escort review forums.

My diary desu

>>25424965
maybe you'd like Patricia Lockwood’s "No One Is Talking About This", but I don't think anything has really captured the online energy the way Cooper did

>>25425859
>>25424965
I can second the Lockwood novel. If you're prepared to receive a recommendation that might hurt you then Honor Levy unironically just not perfectly

>>25425859
Great recommendation, in fact I forgot to reference this when I started the thread. Also very good in evoking that feeling, and a book that goes to places I wouldn't expect it to.

Wouldn't some novel in the form of a blog or web novel that doubles as a arg be more of what fits that description instead of a printed book?

>>25426392
True, but I find the difference in terms of prose quality between most webnovels or web fiction and the books I've been mentioning is staggering and mostly hard to ignore.

I mean, I read Worm and liked it enough, but it would never compete with similar themes broached in more literary endeavours by better writers (sorry wildbow).

>>25425848
>It actually is just
That's a shit way to describe it. The point is that you have competing narratives and no sense of a grounded truth, and an overarching narrative grows from that dynamic. It's way more than "recountings."

>>25426927
You're right, I was being reductive for the sake of being funny and failed on both counts. I loved the book and the way it layers its narrative, and it got me to read the George Miles cycle.

>>25426927
Yeah, it's one of the only books that captures that unique intersections of internet anonymity and reality. You're playing internet detective and trying to figure out what, if anything, is actually happening in reality, and what is just fanfic written by a bunch of lonely outcasts desperate for any sort of connection

if you've been on usenet or forums for any length of time in your internet career it'll resonate strongly with you.

>>25426392
It's tricky to maintain the illusion.

The closest I can think of is _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9. It began as seemingly non-sequitur replies under random posts on Reddit, and it managed to capture that feeling of stumbling upon a strange website and being deeply out of the loop. But as it wore on it became more artificial, more predictable, and that feeling was lost.

>>25424965
>Amygdalatropolis
I asked why this was worth reading forever ago and got no response. I read the first few pages and it seemed like a decent depiction of image board culture but I already know what thats like from wasting my time here. So can anyone redpill me on it?

>>25427311
It's not a depiction o board culture by itself, it is instead what board culture would do to a mind unchecked by morals and scrupules. It is also a book about alienation, and how patterns of self-loathing turn into hating the world, and how human brains are incapable of processing all the internet has to offer and risk turning eldritch during the process.

>>25427318
So it's a character study of what the ultimate chan degenerate might look like?

>>25427848
Partly that, but also it is an exploration of the cynicism of distance, of the banalization of cruelty.

>>25424965
According to Brett Easton Ellis podcast a book called Muscle Man does this, he had the author on his podcast. I've got the book, it's on my bookshelf but I can't be bothered to walk over there and find out the guy's name. Nor can I be bothered to Google it even though I could have in the time it took to write this all out.

Fine! Stop nagging! I'll Google the name...
Jordan Castro