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>>22759What did you think of it? I read his previous book Schizoid Man - was kind of an enjoyable Gen Z smorgasbrod of Bret Easton Ellis/Houellebcq/Palanhiuk in the beginning but in the second half the plot got kinda lost and the initially comeplling style got repetitive. Left me with an emptiness and regret much like just having binged a fast food meal, so I'm hesitant to read more.
No.23060
>>22987>I read his previous book Schizoid Man - was kind of an enjoyable Gen Z smorgasbrod of Bret Easton Ellis/Houellebcq/Palanhiuk in the beginning but in the second half the plot got kinda lost and the initially comeplling style got repetitive.Interesting you say this. On this neonazi literature podcast one guy was complaining that it was boring at the beginning but got very good in the second half.
Anyway, Heil Hyperpop is very close to Schizoid Man (and very short), it has some good ideas and builds traction but it lost me a little on the last pages but I'd recommend it. I think the follow up novel will bring a shift in topic tho, I can see it working a third time but that's the peak, afterwards it would get old.
No.23701
I've been nabokovmaxxing recently. Did read "Luzhin's defense", then "The gift". Former is OK, good depiction of aspie's life and mind. Latter is epic, it's a book about writing books (according to wikipedia, metafiction), Russian history and literature and as always - emigration. Also watched movie "Despair"(1978) based on his novel. Can't say that I liked it much (just moderately), but became very interested in what's in the original.
Then, inspired by certain Ernstchan's thread I read "The gambler". Very enthralling, couldn't stop reading until the end, but after Nabokov who can spend multiple pages on describing characters and background, here I felt like characters are low-poly 3D models acting on an empty scene. Despite poor graphics, plot and physics were great :D . Well, "The gambler" imitates a diary written by one of the characters, so it's supposed to be like that. I wonder how it's like with other Dostoevsky's books, haven't read them since high school until this point.
Now I'm thinking of reading something simple in English, like Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs". Or one of other edgy books which I liked as a teenager. There was a special series of them, all in orange covers: Hunter Thompson, Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk.