>>25115791
Tao is actually so painfully sincere it seems ironic.

>>25115796
yeah exactly, that's why i was unsure of using him as an example, that's a very accurate way of putting it anon

i guess in that one novel it caught my attention that he kept disregarding verisimilitude by throwing in a bunch of random stuff everywhere, including things that would otherwise be seen as inept fiction writing etc

>>25115791
I felt that way about the first bit of the novel Brat by Gabriel Smith, like it was a bland mopey alt-lit derivative, but it turned out to be setting up the rest of the novel (or the rest of the novel made up for it, I'm not decided). Enjoyed it a lot.

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you do know garth marenghi wrote books too?

my diary desu
Christian Kracht’s Faserland and 1979 are up there
Also Anthony Burgess, his idea was largely to write purposefully dreadful tales to show what dreadful effect dreadful society has; but many people read CWO and just said - "holy based!"
1985 is a lesser known work of his that (also) contains an extremely trash narrative and then a bunch of essayist writing around it to discuss what is the point, very prophetic work by the way he nailed quite well what Britain would be like in the big 2020’s

huge Eeeee Eee Eeee fan here by the way

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>>25115791
I really can't think of any purposely bad books. I don't know if it's even possible for a book to be purposely bad and still be worth reading. Because reading is an active endeavor, unlike watching movies or listening to music, anything bad is just going to be too off-putting to be worth it.

>>25117310
Why did he kill himself again?