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Does this 'get good', I'm at the fifth trip and there's thing that are interesting I'm not overly engaged in the novel, is it just more of the same till the end?

>> No.20572269

no, later on the letters are made out of chocolate and you can lick them off the page

>> No.20572346

>>20572269
Sadly I just downloaded it of lib gen in honour of its yippie roots, so wat your saying is that it's a waste of time then.

>> No.20572461

>>20572255
I doubt it, RAW is a hippie queer who zonked himself out on acid cause he thinks it's a stand in for self-knowledge. Nothing he wrote is worth a damn.

>> No.20572482

I don't know. There's some good episodes in there surrounded by filler. I don't remember where they are.

>> No.20572971

>>20572461
>zonked himself out on acid cause he thinks it's a stand in for self-knowledge.
I think you're right, maybe this was really transgressive/subversive 50 years ago but a lot of it is coming off as hippie bullshit desu
>>20572482
>There's some good episodes in there surrounded by filler
That's pretty much how I'd review the first third.

>> No.20573252

it's the literary equivalent of shoegaze music

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20574309

>>20572255
I'm gonna assume you messed up and didn't read picrel beforehand.

>> No.20574314

>>20573252
I assume you mean that pejoratively? this cannot be happening shieldsbros

>> No.20574990

>>20574314
I don't think it's a good or bad thing it just is

>> No.20575036

>>20572255
Not really desu, loved this shit in high school though
Fnord!

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20575447

>narrator is a squirrel
Goddammit Bob.

>> No.20576963

>>20572255
It stays pretty one-note, unfortunately reality is now weirder than 'weird fiction' could then imagine so it's been superseded. A shame because it really was mind-blowing stuff back then.

>> No.20577495

>>20576963
>unfortunately reality is now weirder than 'weird fiction' could then imagine so it's been superseded

it´s not weirder, the 70s already had weirder shit than today, the difference is that nowadays is more sanitized and that book tapped into that zeitgeist