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Four years ago on this day, /lit/ published and printed its first book. Today, almost 400 copies have been printed. It is perhaps the first book of its kind, the first completely anonymous collaborative book created and published online. The publishing of this book could be said to be the most significant day in history of the board.

This book is the result of a collaboration on a Google Docs document used by an unknown number of people. Perhaps as many as a hundred or more. /lit/ somehow managed to produce a funny, unique book that also provides a snapshot of the board culture of the time. Sequels (Tundra 2&3) and imitators (Hypersphere, etc.) have followed, but none retained the lure of the original.

Have you read this book?

>> No.11766855

>>11766849
It's a seminal work

>> No.11766861

sometimes I wish that /lit/ were a more serious board desu

>> No.11766862

Where can i read this/buy a copy?

>> No.11766878

>>11766849
I designed the cover, still haven't read the book though.

>> No.11766887

Not as good as L'anomie

>> No.11766916

>>11766862
There's a PDF floating about somewhere, print copy is below.


http://www.lulu.com/au/en/shop/anonymous/the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra/paperback/product-21802774.html

>> No.11766917

>>11766878
Kek

>>11766862
This

>> No.11766918

>/lit/'s first book was published on 9/11

>> No.11766920

>>11766916
Who gets the profits? Any of the anons or some Jew somewhere?

>> No.11766947

>>11766920
Who knows, that's anonymous for you. Presumably one of the anond who wrote it.

>> No.11766952

>>11766920
Not sure if this is still true, but back when it first came out, people were saying it was minimum priced (just whatever Lulu wanted to print it + something like 10cents).

>> No.11766954

>>11766849
I wish it was funnier. It was actually quite annoying how not funny it was.

>> No.11766957

>>11766920
You could just find the pdf and publish it yourself if you're mad about someone getting something off it.

>> No.11766961

>>11766954
I liked the part where anon is reading the book aloud for his mom.
If I remember correctly.

>> No.11766969

>>11766954
I laughed a good bit while reading

>> No.11766973

>>11766916
>genre
>gay & lesbian

legendary

>> No.11767046

>/lit/'s written a book
>/ck/ makes recipes

Has /a/ ever made an anime? Has /v/ ever made a game?

>> No.11767059
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11767059

>>11767046
>Has /v/ ever made a game?
Kinda.

>> No.11767082

You better make an audiobook version for me.

>> No.11767103
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11767103

Pic related is better

>> No.11767120 [DELETED] 

>>11767103
Hello R*ddit

>> No.11767124
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11767124

I actually own a copy. I think that in like twenty years when I'm much older and this place is hopefully long gone, it's something I can pick up and laugh at, if at nothing else than just at the memories it'll bring back of this board. I read about a third of it and it was funny most of the time. Some parts were genuinely pretty well-written, in a grotesque sort of way. The most interesting part is how completely impenetrable it is - if you showed this book to literally anyone who ever lived that didn't frequent this board consistently for a couple years, almost none of it will make any sense, and the parts they vaguely grasp won't be understood the way they were meant to be. It's a completely unique piece of insider art, I'm not sure if anything else quite like it exists.
On the second page there's a standalone line that says "They work for the masketta man." That's nonsense completely detached from its origin, and if a copy of this book exists in a hundred years, there will be no living person who can explain why it's funny or even what it means. I find that neat and think it was worth buying a copy just for that novelty.

>> No.11767136

>>11767124
>Pic
Really made me think

>> No.11767285

A true tome of shitposting

>> No.11767322

>>11767046
/pol/ memed a president

>> No.11767364

yo, where da PDF at?

>> No.11767381

>>11766849
>>11767364
found it

https://edoc.site/download/the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra-pdf-free.html

>> No.11767407
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11767407

>> No.11767412

>>11767407
kek
“The Lizardmen claim another victim,” said the white [supremacist] rat, solemnly.

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>>11767364

If you're a real glutton for punishment, here's PDFs of the complete Tundra trilogy, plus that execrable Kolsti novella.

https://www21.zippyshare.com/v/VchgD2Hm/file.html

>> No.11767482

>>11767475
thanks

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11767542

>>11766849
>bought the paperback
lmaoing @ ur life

>> No.11767748

>>11766849
I read a little of it and it's fucking shit. The worst of New York Times bestsellers and David Foster Wallace are less insufferable than this shit.

I am curious who the money goes to though when people buy copies. Is it evenly distributed between the writers?

>> No.11767753

>>11767046
/mu/ makes music
some anons on /tv/ are surely filmmakers
some guys on /v/ are indie devs but of like gay shit like anime dating sims

>> No.11767786
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11767786

>>11767748

>> No.11767829

>>11767786
I know whoever did this probably meant it as some funny jest because "haha how funny is it we call people autistic on 4chan haha" but actually that's really sweet that donations go to a cause like that. Fair play. I don't feel as critical towards the book now.

>> No.11767852

>>11767124
holy fucking shit that image my dude

>> No.11767868

>>11767542
let me see that dick

>> No.11767901

>>11767748
>Evenly distributed amongst an unknown number of anonymous authors

>> No.11768056

>>11766849
What books have we actually written so far?
Legacy, L'anomie and ...?
Also, what's Hypershere?

>> No.11768062

>>11768056
Tundra 2
Tundra 3

>> No.11768070

>>11767748
yeah, just got my latest cheque last week

>> No.11768071

>>11768062
What's the chronology?
Tundra 1 in 2014, Tundre 2 in '15, Tundra 3 in '16 and L'anomie in '18?

>> No.11768072

>>11767475
wait, what are these books about? How did they get written etc? I didn't browse lit one year ago.

>> No.11768075

>>11768056
Hypersphere is the best /lit/ project and the only one currently displayed in a well respected museum

>> No.11768083

>>11768071
all 3 tundra books were written in the same year (miami was written in literally about 48 hours), there was also the quagga project and kolstis adventures around this time and various miscellaneous smaller projects (there is a google doc that collects them all called "the /lit/ collection: apocrypha" floating around somewhere). hypersphere was written i think roughly a year after tundra (maybe 2 years if im wrong) then right after there was pictures of dfw. theres also lanomie and more recently another one i cant remember the name of

>> No.11768086 [DELETED] 

>>11768075
Who wrote Hypersphere, consindering the imitation claim and >>11767120?

>> No.11768101

>>11768086
anonymous /lit/ browsers wrote it, the threads are all in the archives. TLOTIAT was significantly more reddit (there were posts about it on places like /r/4chan while we were writing it). pictures of DFW and miami are the two shitty books where its all people trying to get their bit in rather than make something funny

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>>11768101
Is Hypersphere or/and Tundra actually worth reading? I assume it's basically one large shitpost, but is it funny, or just desperate and le edgy?

>> No.11768120

>>11768114
theyre both hilarious and not very edgy

>> No.11768141
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>>11768120
How were they written? Was it the normal "dubs get this, trips do this"-etc thing? Or did /lit/ put together a group of people who worked together on it more intimately

>> No.11768175

>>11768072
They're about /lit/ and were written in open google docs with very mild administration (reversing when someone deletes the entire document)

>> No.11768199

>>11768141
a google document that people wrote in simultaneously

>> No.11768216

>>11768072
theyre very fragmented, basically loads of short stories based around common /lit/ memes and topics of discussion & general 4chan neet stuf with recurring characters and a plotline running through it about secret societies like jews and lizardmen. also robin williams is in it loads because he died right before the book was written. theres also a lot of just sentence long jokes interspersed throughout

>> No.11768348

>>11766849
I've never read either, but this is what The Cantos are like in my mind. Am I far off on that?

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11768358

>>11768075
No joke. Some of the Hypersphere chapters are good shit.

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11768363

>>11768358

>> No.11768371

>>11768358

And here is the audio book version:

https://ia601505.us.archive.org/24/items/HyperspaceCh2pg25/HyperspaceCh2pg25pt1.wav

>> No.11768384

>>11768363
>Many had tried and most of them had figured it out, but it took all them quite a while.
that's pretty good

>> No.11768486

>>11767124
>implying baneposting won't be around in 100 years

>> No.11768522

>>11767124
>>The finnegan's wake of meme culture
In 40 years, when collaborative writing is common because few authors have the patience to write more than a page at a time, this book will be worshipped. They will study it in universities and try to pinpoint when the world went to shit.

>> No.11768602

>>11768358
>The only way to reach the ninth room is by travelling through the preceding eight rooms
Literally breathed slightly harder through my nose, dislodging a booger

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>>11766849
Pic related is surprisingly great and would not be misplaced in a Houllebecq book

>> No.11768762

someone cool should start a new doc, i'd try to write in it

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>>11767046

>> No.11769311

This contains probably the only piece of my writing that will ever be bound between covers. Happy anniversary, bros.

>> No.11769473

>>11768358
>two spaces at the beginning of the sentences
this triggers me, but it was probably made on purpose.

>> No.11769502

>>11769296
this guy is still working on this game

>> No.11769551

>>11768083
There was Dreamscape, which aimed to be more of a conventional novel, and was about a commune of new sincerity writers living in post-apocalyptic Islamic Sweden.

>> No.11769570

>>11766849
Can we start another project like that?

>> No.11769589

>>11767124
>I'm not sure if anything else quite like it exists
Read Gongora.

>> No.11769623

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BUo2D9fbB9LXqpRf-8QnVQ0L7hJUsCvsoCwygopOD9Q/edit

hoes don't know about A Boy Called Wolf

>> No.11769635

>>11769570
plz no

>> No.11769640

>>11769296
what's the link or name of the game?
asking for a friend.

>> No.11769644

>>11766849
> When you see this stupid book from 2 years ago, and you created the cover.

>> No.11769663

It's about as valuable as the ramblings of a lunatic. You might as well just read posts from back then.

>> No.11769695

>>11768762
>>11769570
I'm onboard. Topic/theme?

>> No.11769726

>>11769570
Jesus Christ how new? We do or attempt to do one like once every 3 months.

>> No.11769736

>>11768762
>>11769695
yeah have fun writing a crappy tryhard clone of tundra that no one takes seriously, vandalizes and never gets finished

>> No.11769751

>>11769695
On connection.

>> No.11769786

We should do /lit/ rewrites the odyssey

>> No.11769788

>>11767059
that game was shit, I didn't make it past meeting the first two waifus

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>>11769786
please that would be so good holy shit

>> No.11769810

>>11769751
On the lack of connection, or on the discouraging flood of options people have when seeking connection?

>> No.11769824

>>11769786
might b fun

>> No.11769830

>>11769786
Oh my god, somebody find Gaskun. He’s good for at least a few chapters of this

>> No.11769839

>>11769810
It's just a theme, abstract on purpose. Post a doc.

>> No.11769850

>>11769695
>lol XdDDDD guys, lets make an anonymous book, but i'm also a tripfaggot, so i get the credit
kys yourself

>> No.11769858

>>11769695
would be intrestint to do an esoteric / gnostic kind of novel with demiurges and shit

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11769875

>>11766849

more lieg "de legasy of dodalidarianism in a dundra :DDD"

>> No.11769900

>>11769839
>>11769858
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWZ2sb7_QZ4c8hhO8DTkIRe9yh7EQ0Otg6yAllLRLBc/edit?usp=sharing

>> No.11769930

>>11767046
>>11767059
/vg/ makes games, not all dating sims or anime stuff
>>227650956

>> No.11769968

>>11769830
>Gaskun

You haven't heard?

>> No.11770177

>>11769900
so, what do you guys think so far?

>> No.11770209

>>11769900
make another thread so more people finds it

>> No.11770211

>>11769968
He’s not dead, he posted yesterday.

>> No.11770216

>>11766855
haha

>> No.11770309

>>11766855
More like semenal

>> No.11770323

We can do better.

>> No.11770345

>>11767046
/g/ made a joke game call grand theft gentoo, they also started the tox chat project afaik

>> No.11770365

>>11770323
>This book is the result of a collaboration on a Google Docs document used by an unknown number of people. Perhaps as many as a hundred or more. /lit/ somehow managed to produce a funny, unique book that also provides a snapshot of the board culture of the time. Sequels (Tundra 2&3) and imitators (Hypersphere, etc.) have followed, but none retained the lure of the original.
then we should

>> No.11770401

>>11770323
>>11770365
So far it stinks. When I'm able I hope to pitch in some plot or direction. Maybe more anons will join later tonight (Amerifag)

>> No.11770451

I did A3: Brekkkek Kekkek and CHAPTRE5: 10.0

I still think the book is really funny

>> No.11770600

>>11770401
fuck you its gold

>> No.11770613

Hypersphere is actually really great in a strange way
It has good world-building, I guess

>> No.11770633

>>11767046
>>11767059
Was Katawa Shoujo made by /v/? I thought it was a different board. Also, I liked it ok.

Surreally, so did my mom.

>> No.11770643

>>11769695
The epic of Wojack and Pepe

>> No.11770671

I like the bit where the “Japanese” man shows some guy these sex slave women in a garbage bin after sucking his dick or something. I’m not sure if thats in the final book

>> No.11770693

>>11770643
Hello R3ddit

>> No.11770717

>>11767046
>tfw /his/ hasn't made history

>> No.11770727

>>11770717
we're too caught up in shitposting about each other

>> No.11770761

>>11770345
>>11767046
/g/ have made multiple software projects. Or they have at least made the repo and a logo.

>> No.11770810

>>11767046
and /adv/ have made people kill themselves.

>> No.11770813

I'm just sad "My Twisted Dick: A Gay Black FtM MANifesto" never went anywhere :( Someone deleted the good parts.

>> No.11770856

𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀

>> No.11770894

>>11769900
cringe

>> No.11770897

>>11766849
the absolute best thing ever posted on lit was the beginning of the story where every second word was nigger.

i genuinely laughed so fucking hard at that and the guy was actually very good at writing

>> No.11770913

Should I buy this at lulu? It's expensive as hell!!
By the way, who get all the royalties from this slavery project?

>> No.11770917

>>11770913
14 bucks for a 500-page book doesn't seem too bad

>> No.11770924

did that neolothic anthology stories compilation ever get anywhere?

>> No.11770931

>>11770917
http://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra/paperback/product-21802774.html
Nah it's 20$

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>>11770931

>> No.11770961
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>at least 3 different people bought 0.22K edition
Why

>> No.11770977

>>11770961
Ugh that cover was shit. I remember it being shilled by what was presumably the creator. The three sales are properly him. One to have a mint copy, one to read, and one to give away.

>> No.11770985

>>11770977
It's /biz/ tier cringe to shill and stealing fellow anon's labour. Fuck

>> No.11771003

Does /lit/ actually unironically recommend getting hypersphere and the Tundra trilogy? I might just so I have something on my shelf to remember this place by when (if) it's gone.

>> No.11771009

>>11771003
>to remember this place by when (if) it's gone
why would you want to do that?

>> No.11771010

>>11767059
/a/ made it

>> No.11771022

>>11770977
Sorry I'm new here but it's a kindle edition so it's not a physical copy? why would he need what you've described then?

>> No.11771027

>>11771009
why not? + I like the covers for all 3 desu.

>> No.11771039

>>11771003
>someday, 4chan will be gone
what then, lads?

>> No.11771044

>>11771039
Mental and spiritual freedom.
Then moving into the woods alone for proper freedom

>> No.11771059

>>11771039
>What if facebook dead?
Now I'm interested in post 4chan anoncalypse

>> No.11771079

>>11771059
i sincerely wouldn't care if facebook died.
i only use it for a couple of pages i run.
don't know what i would do if 4chan was gone though, been coming here almost everyday since late 2006, i would feel lost.

>> No.11771089

>>11770931
20 AU maybe

>> No.11771152

>>11771003
I have all 3 as time capsules of this fragile time

>> No.11771162

>>11768363
>The scientific study of The Hypersphere was not something one did in a day. It took several moments to full grasp how the The Hypersphere worked.
It's like somebody playing madlibs with a schizophrenic rant.

>> No.11771171

>>11771079
i sometimes dont come for a few months because i am distracted by other stuff in life but i like the knowledge that it is still there, and each and every day there will be cascades of posts about all this stuff

I was once driving to a dinner in the evening, i hadnt been on here in a couple months, and completely unbidden the thought of londonfrog popped into my head because i saw some hot girls walking on the sidewalk and i genuinely started laughing because there was a high probabiltiy that londonfrog had actually posted that very day about seeing stacies outside and feeling 'demoralized'. Idk why this was so funny to me but i guess it's because i compartmentalize 4chan into a different world and it intruded into my world really strongly and unexpectedly

if the site shut down i would feel genuinely weird, like some part of me was now gone, or rather had nowhere to express itself

>> No.11771191

>>11767046
https://thepablocollective.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-pablo
/mu/ made this

>> No.11771201

>>11771191
like the /v/ musical.
it's gonna start soon too, sixth one this year.

>> No.11771208

>>11769296
this is like the inverse of temple os

>> No.11771276

>>11770177
>>11769900
wow a lot of toilet humor without any wit, is this how the others were or just a sign of the times?

>> No.11771322
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11771322

Reminder that L'anomie is the best /lit/ work

>> No.11771326

>>11771322
if the whole book is that calibre i'd be inclined to agree with you

>> No.11771357

>>11771276
but what did you think of my part, though?

>> No.11771423

>>11767046
Some /r9k/ robot wrote Leftopia.

>> No.11771521

>>11767407
lmao a normie smoothbrain can't comprehend talent when she sees it

>> No.11771546

>>11770633
No, /a/ made Katawa Shoujo

>> No.11771577

>>11771322
where's the pdf?

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>>11771423
one author doesn't qualify, it should be a collaborative project that is completely open (no invite only/whitelist stuff obviously) and anonymous (pic related doesn't count since you had to use accounts to access)

>> No.11771870

>>11767046
/mu/ has made several albums

>> No.11771920

>>11767753
Good Time was written and directed by /tv/ users. There's unironic 4chan memes in it and one of the directors regularly talks about /tv/ on twitter. William Shatner also uses /tv/

>> No.11771930

>>11769644
don't lie you fucker

>> No.11771932

>>11771920
https://youtu.be/Vc3X2wzAroc
See if you can spot the epic meme. The movie is genuinely good though. Its very reminiscent of the first Pusher. Robert Pattinson is excellent.

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11772027

>>11771932
good movie. i remember wanting to sperg out laughing in the movie theater when i saw that shit

>> No.11772040

>>11769900
wrote some gay shit in there. its pretty gay in there now. I hope you like hot man on man action cause that shit is so fucking gay now. like if you're a homo I dare you to read chapter 4 and not pop a boner lmao fucking gay shit

>> No.11772054

>>11772040
Although, I’m not actually gay and don’t know how gay people think so idk if I did right. If your gay and you read chapter 4 can you tell me whether or not it made you hard?

>> No.11772095

>>11772040
>>11772054
so, both of you got a boner after reading chapter 4.

>> No.11772365

>>11772054
I'm not gay but I got a raging semi

>> No.11772493

>>11770961
Is it actually in French?

>> No.11772502

>>11772493
no

>> No.11772505

>>11767322
And none of us can beat that.

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>>11767322
/sp/ also has /theirguys/ as the presidents of Pakistan and Liberia

>> No.11772627

It was like an original jackson pollock, it can't be done again without making you look like a hack.

>> No.11772634

>>11768631
thank you, my prescription was running low

>> No.11772782

>>11771003
I’d ditch the second and third tundra, and read Tundra, Hypersphere and L’anomie as the /lit/ meme trilogy

>> No.11772790

>>11771322
the only parts of l’anomie that I remember are the waiting for godot bit and the one about the french broad

>> No.11772794

I have it in one of my cases because I wrote a page in it. Pretty awkward when someone brings it up.

>> No.11772999

>>11772365
Better than nothing I suppose

>> No.11773545

>>11771577
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hh_X2K_3IGGGfpUqaObDTuvxgK_Pzm25yOQcuiitCXc/edit#heading=h.mn21rda5ln28

>> No.11774736

Fake and gay

>> No.11775807

>>11770633
KS was an /a/ project, I know, I used to browse /ksg/ regularly. Yes it's as bad as you think. No I'm not any better, but it got too much to bear.