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reading "infinite jest," want to murder the author.

it exemplifies everything I hate about culture since the 200...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
it was written in the 90s hth
Puce irate indian lodge fanboi
  02/20/14
(wallace fanboi)
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
can you elaborate on this?
Thirsty vigorous police squad
  02/20/14
...
Thirsty vigorous police squad
  02/20/14
stream-of-conscious literature is much like modern art (and ...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
what does this have to do with "2000s culture"?
Thirsty vigorous police squad
  02/20/14
the celebration of persecution-complex soliplistic "nar...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
also, stream of consciousness doesn't necessarily blur the d...
Thirsty vigorous police squad
  02/20/14
i know i generalized when i said that but the point i was tr...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
infinite jest isn't even stream of consciousness you dumb sh...
Glittery Lay
  06/07/21
...he screeched at someone who probably died in the last 7.5...
Wonderful pocket flask heaven
  06/07/21
pynchon sucks
Puce irate indian lodge fanboi
  02/20/14
i know he sucks
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
they both suck
Puce irate indian lodge fanboi
  02/20/14
yeah i know they both suck; but one sucks nigger dick and th...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
how do you calculate the amount of sperm in nigger dick?
Puce irate indian lodge fanboi
  02/20/14
ask an AZNgirl
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
azn girls don't fuck black guys, they fuck white guys
Puce irate indian lodge fanboi
  02/20/14
they go for blacks after their dun with whites
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
Thankfully he hanged himself.
Amethyst Aromatic Striped Hyena Box Office
  02/20/14
...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
:(
pungent dashing circlehead juggernaut
  02/20/14
HAHA UR FUCKED!!!
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
his non-fiction is extremely cr. Read "Consider the Lob...
Heady roast beef bawdyhouse
  02/20/14
i'll give this one faggot one last chance; at least he's not...
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
i hope you like footnotes!
Thirsty vigorous police squad
  02/20/14
nah his essays were what were ttt. the best of him aside fr...
Glittery Lay
  06/07/21
just make index cards and sticky notes
Scarlet yarmulke place of business
  02/20/14
lol. ty scholarship.
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
yw
Scarlet yarmulke place of business
  02/20/14
Too late, he ready did that for you
Henna Effete Ticket Booth Coldplay Fan
  02/20/14
JFC MAN
balding factory reset button
  02/20/14
Funny that was exactly the reaction of the author himself
disrespectful casino
  02/20/14
...
copper provocative meetinghouse elastic band
  09/26/20
...
Talented hairy legs rigpig
  09/26/20
how's high school?
Chocolate zombie-like selfie
  02/20/14
I enjoyed the novel!
Bright multi-colored nursing home
  02/20/14
...
domesticated library indirect expression
  09/26/20
...
Iridescent Area Crotch
  09/26/20
Reading it now. It's actually really funny.
bateful plaza shitlib
  06/07/21
cr
pungent dashing circlehead juggernaut
  06/07/21
the scene at the beginning when the kid is being interviewed...
Peach double fault becky
  06/07/21
absolutely awful tryhard pseudo intellectual garbage. pyncho...
Bonkers base
  06/07/21
filtered
Wonderful pocket flask heaven
  06/07/21
I'm starting to think Pynchon was flame pushed too hard by B...
Glittery Lay
  06/07/21
nah
Bonkers base
  06/07/21
What about GADDIS?
Glittery Lay
  06/07/21
couldn't comment
Bonkers base
  06/07/21
It gets amazing right around page 200, not flame.
Olive Disturbing Really Tough Guy Old Irish Cottage
  06/07/21
It really is amazing. So easy and fun to read like reading ...
Glittery Lay
  06/07/21
xo used to jerk off to thus dumb shit
domesticated library indirect expression
  06/07/21
I thought xo has always hated it
Glittery Lay
  06/07/21
I think there are clear factions now. Positions have harden...
Olive Disturbing Really Tough Guy Old Irish Cottage
  06/07/21
...
Olive Disturbing Really Tough Guy Old Irish Cottage
  05/13/23
...
green wrinkle
  05/13/23
my turn. I liked it, everyone who says the first "X&quo...
woah
  02/26/26
it's great ur just a pleb
Wonderful pocket flask heaven
  06/07/21
gbtr
domesticated library indirect expression
  06/07/21
tp.
Frutiger Aero
  02/26/26


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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:01 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

it exemplifies everything I hate about culture since the 2000's. unfortunately he already killedself like the pynchon faggot wannabe he is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054069)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:03 PM
Author: Puce irate indian lodge fanboi

it was written in the 90s hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054082)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:04 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

(wallace fanboi)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054092)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:05 PM
Author: Thirsty vigorous police squad

can you elaborate on this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054106)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:07 PM
Author: Thirsty vigorous police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054123)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:15 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

stream-of-conscious literature is much like modern art (and its postmodern and dadaist disgusting variants). because the distinction between narrator, author, and reader are all considered irrelevant -- wut u get as a result is a writer who snowangels in his own shit for hours to years at a time until someone comes by (an edgy, opportunistic publisher looking to capitalize off 'memoir nonfiction' shitfests like david sedaris) and says it smells like curry. basically wallace saw himself as the next confederacy of dunces but with pynchon stream-of-consciousness. you'll literally see thousands of relicas of his 'unique' schtick from every shit-for-brains MFA circlejerk that worships joyce carol oates for being "so independent."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054165)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:15 PM
Author: Thirsty vigorous police squad

what does this have to do with "2000s culture"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054167)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:16 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

the celebration of persecution-complex soliplistic "narratives." the rest is history.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054174)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:17 PM
Author: Thirsty vigorous police squad

also, stream of consciousness doesn't necessarily blur the distinction between anything. In fact, in most cases it's unambiguously the uninterrupted thoughts of a character.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054181)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:20 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

i know i generalized when i said that but the point i was trying to make is that as nietzsche says, obscurity is usually employed in the service of clouding shallow seas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054204)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:30 PM
Author: Glittery Lay

infinite jest isn't even stream of consciousness you dumb shit. if anything its nabakovian metafiction

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590193)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:32 PM
Author: Wonderful pocket flask heaven

...he screeched at someone who probably died in the last 7.5 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590200)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:02 PM
Author: Puce irate indian lodge fanboi

pynchon sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054077)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:03 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

i know he sucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054089)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:04 PM
Author: Puce irate indian lodge fanboi

they both suck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054094)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:04 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

yeah i know they both suck; but one sucks nigger dick and the other sucks mere dick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054099)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:05 PM
Author: Puce irate indian lodge fanboi

how do you calculate the amount of sperm in nigger dick?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054108)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:05 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

ask an AZNgirl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054111)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:06 PM
Author: Puce irate indian lodge fanboi

azn girls don't fuck black guys, they fuck white guys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054114)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:07 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

they go for blacks after their dun with whites

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054120)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:03 PM
Author: Amethyst Aromatic Striped Hyena Box Office

Thankfully he hanged himself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054088)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:04 PM
Author: balding factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054093)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:04 PM
Author: pungent dashing circlehead juggernaut

:(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054095)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:04 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

HAHA UR FUCKED!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054103)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:17 PM
Author: Heady roast beef bawdyhouse

his non-fiction is extremely cr. Read "Consider the Lobster", it's his collected essays published in magazines mostly. He was a great writer but his fiction/novels were not enjoyable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054187)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:21 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

i'll give this one faggot one last chance; at least he's not franzen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054215)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 4:00 PM
Author: Thirsty vigorous police squad

i hope you like footnotes!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054424)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:32 PM
Author: Glittery Lay

nah his essays were what were ttt. the best of him aside from IJ was oblivion the collection of short stories, but OP will most likely hate it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590201)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:18 PM
Author: Scarlet yarmulke place of business

just make index cards and sticky notes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054193)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:20 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

lol. ty scholarship.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054208)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:21 PM
Author: Scarlet yarmulke place of business

yw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054213)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:19 PM
Author: Henna Effete Ticket Booth Coldplay Fan

Too late, he ready did that for you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054202)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:20 PM
Author: balding factory reset button

JFC MAN

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054211)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:33 PM
Author: disrespectful casino

Funny that was exactly the reaction of the author himself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054302)



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Date: September 26th, 2020 10:39 AM
Author: copper provocative meetinghouse elastic band



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#40990163)



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Date: September 26th, 2020 10:40 AM
Author: Talented hairy legs rigpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#40990166)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 3:40 PM
Author: Chocolate zombie-like selfie

how's high school?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25054347)



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Date: February 20th, 2014 9:29 PM
Author: Bright multi-colored nursing home

I enjoyed the novel!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#25056365)



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Date: September 26th, 2020 10:27 AM
Author: domesticated library indirect expression



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#40990123)



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Date: September 26th, 2020 10:32 AM
Author: Iridescent Area Crotch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#40990133)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:18 PM
Author: bateful plaza shitlib

Reading it now. It's actually really funny.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590138)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:19 PM
Author: pungent dashing circlehead juggernaut

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590146)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:38 PM
Author: Peach double fault becky

the scene at the beginning when the kid is being interviewed at USC i think sets the tone of what this book is going to be like. if you don't think it's hysterical, then this shit will be torture. if you do think it's hilarious, then it's a great book imho.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590228)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:19 PM
Author: Bonkers base

absolutely awful tryhard pseudo intellectual garbage. pynchon runs circles around that faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590147)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:28 PM
Author: Wonderful pocket flask heaven

filtered

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590181)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:40 PM
Author: Glittery Lay

I'm starting to think Pynchon was flame pushed too hard by BOOMERS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590246)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:41 PM
Author: Bonkers base

nah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590253)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:51 PM
Author: Glittery Lay

What about GADDIS?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590304)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:52 PM
Author: Bonkers base

couldn't comment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590310)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:31 PM
Author: Olive Disturbing Really Tough Guy Old Irish Cottage

It gets amazing right around page 200, not flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590198)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:35 PM
Author: Glittery Lay

It really is amazing. So easy and fun to read like reading Stephen King, but then it has literary and nabokov-esque style prose and themes tied in with plenty of drugs and sex. Funny as fuck too. Loved reading it the first time so much. I have always heard people hate on the book but idk why, I think its fun. Perhaps it didn't make it to the level of great literature like the author may have intended but its better than any of the other post-the 70s garbage out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590212)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:43 PM
Author: domesticated library indirect expression

xo used to jerk off to thus dumb shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590262)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: Glittery Lay

I thought xo has always hated it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590280)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:48 PM
Author: Olive Disturbing Really Tough Guy Old Irish Cottage

I think there are clear factions now. Positions have hardened. Once a year some poaster actually reads the book and bumps these threads.

The people who hate it have never actually read it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590290)



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Date: May 13th, 2023 7:59 PM
Author: Olive Disturbing Really Tough Guy Old Irish Cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#46308415)



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Date: May 13th, 2023 8:10 PM
Author: green wrinkle



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#46308452)



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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:43 PM
Author: woah (hitler did nothing wrong)

my turn. I liked it, everyone who says the first "X" pages are unreadable is a midwit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#49697933)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:47 PM
Author: Wonderful pocket flask heaven

it's great ur just a pleb

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590286)



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Date: June 7th, 2021 11:48 PM
Author: domesticated library indirect expression

gbtr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#42590291)



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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:54 PM
Author: Frutiger Aero

tp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2499433&forum_id=2#49697968)