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17252886 No.17252886 [Reply] [Original]

Why haven't you read the most kino book of the last 10 years yet, anon?

>> No.17252928
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17252928

Is this like that Jerry Seinfeld movie?

>> No.17253005

>>17252928
in a sense

>> No.17253085

>>17252886
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming? I read it. Also Kaufman is a hack.

>> No.17253095

I'm reading it now. It's merely ok so far. Not wowing nor even really that interesting. I expected far better from Kaufman, but I'm only about 10% of the way in. I'm hoping it gets better soon.

>> No.17253365

>>17253095
the first 10% is absolutely the best

>> No.17253651
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17253651

What a fool I’ve been.
Don’t trust oI3er5KKetj anymore! Hahahha

Testing new tripcode

>> No.17254077

>>17252886
It had some funny bits here and there but the book felt too bloated and disconnected. Feels like he just dug shit up from his ideas cabinet and threw it all into this book. Some of it worked well and some of it not so well. The ending fell kinda flat for me as well, too nonsensical and absurd to carry any real meaning. Some of the ideas are interesting but they're not built upon or explored thoroughly enough, they're either brought up and discarded or simply referenced. It was an enjoyable read overall but I was expecting more from Kaufman. I watched an interview where he said people always call his work out for being humorless so he tried to cram as many jokes in the book as possible and I don't understand his logic there. It really does read like a thousand page joke book with interesting specks of gold sprinkled in every hundred pages. It's certainly not bad but it's not even as good as his worst movie imo.

>> No.17254134

>>17254077
I liked it but I think it would have worked better as a two-hour film than as a novel. Kaufman clearly knows how to write a story but it's clear to me that he doesn't know what a novel is. While I was reading this I couldn't help but feel like everything in it would be better expressed if it were a film. I haven't got that sensation with any other book before, but maybe that sensation is intentional. I was genuinely interested in Rosenberg and what happened to him, but I did not give a fuck about Mudd and Molloy or the meteorologist. The book would have been better if it had more focus. That being said, there are some very clever things in it. I enjoyed it overall

>> No.17254189

>>17252886
Because your gimmicks get old kind of quick.

>>17252928
Myself and probably at least half the board always make sure to click on any sort of image which vaguely resembles what we are supposed to click on, like the funny mailboxes, to screw up the AI and make life difficult for everyone else. We also click on that tiny corner of the stairs which is barely in a square of its own and the rider of the bicycle and well as the bicycle.

The AI is far more tolerant to clicking on questionable things than not clicking on them and if enough people click the questionable they cease being questionable.

>> No.17254229

>>17254134
>I think it would have worked better as a two-hour film than as a novel
Yeah I agree to an extent. The Mudd and Molloy stuff would've been much more enjoyable on screen. Same goes for the meteorologist thing where he plants packages for the hero to find. I think the ending with all the crazy shit in the cave would be very difficult to film.

>> No.17254243

>>17252886
he writes like a teenage girl

>> No.17254256

>>17253651
maybe you should just give up tripcodes?

>> No.17254370

>>17252886
does it have a scene in which a dog jizzes on a dudes leg? i drew that scene from another book for an ms paint thread and more than one anon thought it was that.

>> No.17254591

>>17254256
I hate them
But don’t you wonder why they’re still here, still available?

>> No.17254813

>>17254243
I think maybe the point is that Rosenberg writes like any other blue check on Twitter who thinks he's way smarter than he is