Are you guys afraid to read McElroy or something?

>>8960047
I'm afraid of

>>8960047
no, just found Night Soul to be underwhelming

>>8960060
ye cuz they short story b

post his best sample
I have a million other things to read and I need convincing he should be included

>>8960047
i ordered The Smuggler's Bible but it's taking forever to get here

>be ausfag
>no good brick and mortar bookstores
>no good local
>even second hand books cost $20-$30 each because of shipping costs and our trash currency
>when you do order books they take at least 3 weeks to arrive
>tfw

>>8960067
If you need convincing, he's not for you senpai.

>>8960074
>boo hoo dingo ate my book

>>8960090
kek

>>8960047
not afraid, excited

>>8960067
use the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon

>>8960076
Stupidest post in this thread, literally convinced me not to read him, and I bet it even made you feel good to write.
>>8960260
No, either hand deliver his best samples to me pronto on the double or quit memeing him.

>>8960047
i don't waste my time with drivel

>>8960271
y u say that?

No it's just that there's far more important writers to be reading and there's only a limited amount of time we get on this Earth to be able to read stuff

>>8960270
no one is going to open his book and type it out. just google it its very easy to do

>>8960369
You only read shit that is "important"?
Are you mentally ill?

>>8960429
he's a typical /lit pseud. he just ousted himself.

>>8960429
The significant authors open you up to many doors of literature due to their monumental influence, whereas reading a niche meme author is just not all that worthwhile other than jerking off to strangers on the literature forum of a Indonesian finger puppet idea consortium.
And influence aside they're just good, which is how they got important in the first place.

>>8960553
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

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i made a mcelroy mega folder the other day, does anybody have pdfs/epubs of anything not in here?
https://mega.nz/#F!boYgWAbD!1xkIq8XFUIr1DLUJeaaUXA

>>8960420
Stop memeing him then. I've seen too many silly threads discussing how rare and good his books are and how 'end game' they are. Yet I haven't seen anyone actually discuss the work just hype it up. No one cares. I'm not looking him up.

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>>8960719
Hold up nigger I'm reading actress in the house as we speak. I'll get back to you when I finish. So far my first impression is how is this guy not more famous.

>>8960047
I've read Cannonball and thought it was one of the best books I've ever read, and I've now order Women and Men and waiting for that to arrive

>>8960847
fancy

>>8960847
how much did w&m cost you?

also id advise reading night soul, smugglers bible and maybe lookout cartridge before that

>>8960878
how come?

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>>8961022
its a big book

in all seriousness though its like 1.5x the size of war and peace and has some of his most difficult passages, not to mention a really fractured and multilayered narrative. its definitely worth reading some of his shorter (and cheaper) novels first.

in fact you can download nice epubs of some of them in my mega folder >>8960593

>>8960270

it did because you're a pussy who should neck himself. You aren't hard enough for the greatest postmodernist alive.

>>8961056
doing gods work my son.

>>8960066
Yea but short stories can deliver the best of a writer in concise forms. Only a few of them really caught me as interesting. I have Women and Men and don't really intend to read it, maybe I'll borrow Lookout Cartridge from the library but I'm not waiting with baited breath.

>>8961090
u wanna send me ur women and men?

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>>8961097
only when I'm done with it

>>8961070
no problem anon
>>8961090
this. some of mcelroys best stuff is in night soul.

>>8960733
>"I'm reading as we speak"
>on the first page

embodiment of /lit/

>>8961463
lmao no I only had the first page saved retard.

>>8961061
More of the same

>>8961491
wew getting a bit heated after the banter lad.

how is it btw i bought Actress recently [\spoiler]

>>8960878
Women and Men cost me $30nzd

>>8962247
what the fug how did you do that

congratulations anon