34 DAYS UNTIL WOMEN AND MEN BY JOSEPH MCELROY DROPS

Susan is a bear

my diary unironically

>In this extraordinary, multilayered novel of crisis and yearning, Joseph McElroy illuminates with tenderness male and female union and apartness. The high water mark of a distinguished career--a powerful achievement.
—Walter Abish, dust jacket

>I was filled with awe and wonder as the immense, epic design of the novel continued to mushroom ever higher...this book is a humbling experience. ... Women and Men is baffling much of the time, but I couldn't help feeling while reading the first Breather section that this is what fiction in the twenty-first century might look like...one closes this extraordinary novel with the conviction that McElroy is fifty years ahead of anyone else now writing.
—Steven Moore, The Review of Contemporary Fiction[1]

>Women and Men belongs to the maximalist subspecies of postmodern novel.
—Garth Risk Hallberg, "The lost postmodernist: Joseph McElroy", Los Angeles Times[7]

>For me, by the close, it was like having listened for several days to an all-news station in a foreign language: you have a rough idea of what's been going on, the news is worse than you imagine, and, while you feel more or less informed, you can't really say that you've enjoyed yourself. But one does not go to this novelist for the usual pleasures.
—Ivan Gold, New York Times[4]

Who is in the right here?

> dude its complicated and difficult lmao

steven moore is a hack btw

he sucks the dick of any novel that is encyclopedic

my reading event of the summer is gonna be the recognitions. started today, prolly will last into august
i don't think i'm ready

its not hard. at least not compared to woman and men or ulyssess. just have google and google translate ready to go at all times.

the most useful thing he's ever done was compiling annotations to gaddis. i cannot denigrate him, in that regard, for the excellent scholasticism he's performed.

but here he's wrong about mcellroy, who is indeed a talentless hack.

the dumbasses shilling mcellroy are hoping it will be Veeky Forums's new infinite jest, but they forget that the worst pomo is an idiot magnet, and if IJ could not sustain a single successful thorough reading group, mcellroy shilling will indeed fall on its face as well. Veeky Forums could do with more pomo like gaddis, it doesn't need more trash like mcellroy.

>but they forget that the worst pomo is an idiot magnet,

i like this phrase

>The relative unattainability of this doorstopper is driving force behind its dubious meme status. In 34 days it becomes just another pomo tome. I expect that after a very brief uptick in McElroy shilling, it will plunge to lower than the current levels shitposting.

wtf i hate mcellroy now

>it will plunge to lower than the current levels shitposting.
do you mean shitposting in favor of, or against? because i don't know which is shittier.

Both, it will go the way of Jerusalem and Bottom's Dream, a fossilised meme.

No regular on Veeky Forums read BD, and Jerusalem was definitely tossed out as shit, so I can't complain here.

Is there a pdf of it online or no? I assume no.

said like a true pseud who has never read mcelroy. why is he trash? what book did you read of his that makes you say that? enlighten me please.

read him yourself nigger

there is

Okay then can you post a link you faggot, instead of just saying "there is"?

i got mine from what.cd (rip) gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E0593B4F413E01C0543495D0E5A7F8A6

but here is one

Not a pdf you useless faggot.

Pretty sure this got delayed again btw

I have a smugglers bible, plus, ancient history and actress in the house.

why u say

I want you to be wrong so fucking badly now.

is a new edition coming out? Yes, I am a newfriend

I'm getting the original edition for my birthday in a few days and I'm so fucking excited

I could have just waited til next month but mmmm that first edition is aesthetically tasty

Jesus christ dude. You again? you're gonna burn out the Mcelroy post before the book even comes out. If you dont stop I'll give it a few really well composed negative reviews on goodreads that will surely affect's it's sales. People dont want yo spend $30 bonez on an experimental doorstoper if it's bad.

its in the mcelroy mega folder mega.nz/#F!boYgWAbD!1xkIq8XFUIr1DLUJeaaUXA

About fucking time

Okay, I've read 3 of his novels and disagree with you. So, please, answer the other user's questions. You seem passionate about it, so I'm sure you'd be able to come up with a few things to back your statements up, no?

It's not a good book. Go back to memeing Gass.

how are his novels? the nightsoul collection is a shitheap, but at times i didnt hate his prose

he's never read him. if he had he wouldn't say such things

But I already got it on my shelf

in a month will be a good time to read it

It has terrible prose. Someone post those screenshots of the book's awful prose.

are we being shilled