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anyone here ever finish infinite jest

i did 400 pages
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
I did 40
Spectacular Brunch
  07/15/20
nice
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
Never tried.
Motley Soggy Sanctuary Windowlicker
  07/15/20
poast moniker synergy
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
yeah
Iridescent blathering people who are hurt
  07/15/20
should i read the other 600 pages
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
eh... did you LIKE the first 400 pages? imo in some sense t...
Iridescent blathering people who are hurt
  07/15/20
agree with this. if you don't want to put in that much time ...
buck-toothed plaza
  07/15/20
...
Spectacular Brunch
  07/15/20
yeah i thought it was great but then i started reading anoth...
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
Yeah.
Bisexual house
  07/15/20
yeah
buck-toothed plaza
  07/15/20
by the time i got it i didn't have a ton of time to devote t...
coral area
  07/15/20
I did finish, after like a month and a half. I regret it.
Laughsome Codepig Foreskin
  07/15/20
faggot
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
whok probably did
deep business firm dopamine
  07/15/20
shit, pure shit
angry rambunctious halford
  07/15/20
It is shocking how dated and frivolous that book seems now. ...
Irradiated Indecent Cuck
  07/15/20
titcr
angry rambunctious halford
  07/15/20
That's always the vibe I got of this book
Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry
  07/15/20
...
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
You must not have understood it. It's more relevant than ev...
Kink-friendly canary native boiling water
  07/15/20
i wonder why he thought cartridges would be the next medium ...
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
The specific technology (which feels dated as fuck) is much ...
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
yeah im not a fucking retard okay? i read 400 pages of infin...
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
interesting
Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry
  07/15/20
agree and disagree. it did not predict today's social and po...
buck-toothed plaza
  07/15/20
i think the fixation on addiction and substance abuse is sor...
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
some would even consider xo the Ultimate Entertainment
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
...
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
some?
buck-toothed plaza
  07/15/20
...
Kink-friendly canary native boiling water
  07/15/20
...
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
lol fuck no i threw it in the trash after ~40% of it or so ...
razzle set
  07/15/20
I got like 120 pages in and then I was like "Why the fu...
mind-boggling confused kitchen quadroon
  07/15/20
yes. 30% of it is interesting, in a conventional way. the re...
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
Yes, it becomes a real page-turner around page 203. By page...
Kink-friendly canary native boiling water
  07/15/20
cr
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
...
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
Nope. Still sitting on the shelf and will probably never be ...
Submissive Famous Landscape Painting Wagecucks
  07/15/20
Yes. It's my favorite novel and I don't just use that line t...
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
okay dave
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
...
Submissive Famous Landscape Painting Wagecucks
  07/15/20
Cr. It's 1100 pages long on large pages with small type and...
Kink-friendly canary native boiling water
  07/15/20
the prose is godawful
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
Huge spritezero fan here. Big poaster. Full respect. You...
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
disagree
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
what books do you like
Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry
  07/15/20
authors i like: pynchon, joyce, fitzgerald, flaubert
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
Nabokov? what do you like by Joyce?
Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry
  07/15/20
i dig nabakov. i like everything abt joyce. have not read fi...
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
nobody has ever read finnegan's wake
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
No apostrophe come on man
Chartreuse jewess fanboi
  07/15/20
Harold Bloom: Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace,...
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
ins't he famous for penning a screed about western canon or ...
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
yeah
duck-like hyperactive half-breed station
  07/15/20
good man, but. Jewish. can't escape that
topaz clown toilet seat
  07/15/20
fair
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
I'd agree that DFW's prose style works against him at least ...
buck-toothed plaza
  07/15/20
i agree--my copy of IJ has a few paragraphs and sentences m...
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
Lmao “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with Dav...
Chartreuse jewess fanboi
  07/15/20
this critique seems pretty accurate: [T]he novel's Pynchones...
Comical Pozpig
  07/15/20
It is the Great American Novel
concupiscible mad-dog skullcap
  07/15/20
I became extremely annoyed with it after about 50 pages and ...
Unholy Theater Stage Fat Ankles
  07/15/20
That's crazy. If you're not enjoying a book you should quit...
Kink-friendly canary native boiling water
  07/15/20
Sometimes you gotta keep going though to make sure, e.g. Rab...
Chartreuse jewess fanboi
  07/15/20
I read it when I was unemployed, which helped a lot I think....
heady indian lodge
  07/15/20
it's up there w moby dick for best written work by an americ...
Charcoal vibrant azn temple
  07/16/20
I could never get through IJ. Really enjoyed Oblivion (in p...
Ivory costumed den
  07/16/20


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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:46 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

i did 400 pages

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614435)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:47 PM
Author: Spectacular Brunch

I did 40

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614443)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:49 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

nice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614458)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:50 PM
Author: Motley Soggy Sanctuary Windowlicker

Never tried.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614474)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:51 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

poast moniker synergy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614481)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:53 PM
Author: Iridescent blathering people who are hurt

yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614492)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:54 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

should i read the other 600 pages

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614495)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:58 PM
Author: Iridescent blathering people who are hurt

eh... did you LIKE the first 400 pages? imo in some sense the rest is going to be 'kind of what you expect' in many ways, even though that sounds paradoxical for a novel that is very original, unusual and defies categorization like probably no book has since early Pynchon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614510)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:03 PM
Author: buck-toothed plaza

agree with this. if you don't want to put in that much time and you haven't read Oblivion, just read that instead

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614532)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:05 PM
Author: Spectacular Brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614545)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:34 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

yeah i thought it was great but then i started reading another book or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614691)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 7:59 PM
Author: Bisexual house

Yeah.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614516)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:00 PM
Author: buck-toothed plaza

yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614517)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:00 PM
Author: coral area

by the time i got it i didn't have a ton of time to devote to books, especially ones that long. so no.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614523)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:05 PM
Author: Laughsome Codepig Foreskin

I did finish, after like a month and a half. I regret it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614544)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:44 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614745)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:06 PM
Author: deep business firm dopamine

whok probably did

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614553)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:36 PM
Author: angry rambunctious halford

shit, pure shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614700)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:37 PM
Author: Irradiated Indecent Cuck

It is shocking how dated and frivolous that book seems now. We were so silly in the 90s. It was nice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614705)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:41 PM
Author: angry rambunctious halford

titcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614726)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:41 PM
Author: Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry

That's always the vibe I got of this book

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614728)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:43 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614741)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:49 PM
Author: Kink-friendly canary native boiling water

You must not have understood it. It's more relevant than ever.

Just this year companies have started releasing software that makes your face look better on video chats.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614774)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:51 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

i wonder why he thought cartridges would be the next medium for storing entertainment bullshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614784)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:52 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

The specific technology (which feels dated as fuck) is much less relevant than the general feelings of dread and ennui that a world of meaningless striving evokes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614794)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:53 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

yeah im not a fucking retard okay? i read 400 pages of infinite jest. i know things.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614796)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:04 PM
Author: Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry

interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614875)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:51 PM
Author: buck-toothed plaza

agree and disagree. it did not predict today's social and political strife, but the concept of non-stop "entertainment" weaponized against us certainly resonates

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614786)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:54 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

i think the fixation on addiction and substance abuse is sort of prescient

lots of people living in despair with some dying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614801)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:55 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

some would even consider xo the Ultimate Entertainment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614805)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:55 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614809)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:57 PM
Author: buck-toothed plaza

some?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614824)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 11:38 PM
Author: Kink-friendly canary native boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40615643)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:59 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614840)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:37 PM
Author: razzle set

lol fuck no i threw it in the trash after ~40% of it or so

swordmo keeps telling me its a work of art but what does he know

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614706)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:37 PM
Author: mind-boggling confused kitchen quadroon

I got like 120 pages in and then I was like "Why the fuck am i reading this?" and then stopped.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614707)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:37 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

yes. 30% of it is interesting, in a conventional way. the rest is garbage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614710)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:39 PM
Author: Kink-friendly canary native boiling water

Yes, it becomes a real page-turner around page 203. By page 400 you kind of understand what's going on.

I mean that sincerely. I have really strong visual memories from that book. It's really really good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614719)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:40 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614724)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:44 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614753)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:45 PM
Author: Submissive Famous Landscape Painting Wagecucks

Nope. Still sitting on the shelf and will probably never be read

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614756)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:47 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

Yes. It's my favorite novel and I don't just use that line to get laid (but it has worked)

DFW has a rare command over the written word, and it's a joy to experience. It's a book that makes you FEEL and THINK but lets you decide how much energy you'll put into these charges. And the reward is great, if the effort is there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614761)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:47 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

okay dave

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614765)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:48 PM
Author: Submissive Famous Landscape Painting Wagecucks



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614769)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:48 PM
Author: Kink-friendly canary native boiling water

Cr. It's 1100 pages long on large pages with small type and every sentence is perfectly crafted.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614772)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:50 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

the prose is godawful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614776)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:51 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

Huge spritezero fan here. Big poaster. Full respect.

You're wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614785)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:53 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

disagree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614795)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:03 PM
Author: Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry

what books do you like

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614871)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:07 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

authors i like: pynchon, joyce, fitzgerald, flaubert

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614898)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:08 PM
Author: Bull Headed Exhilarant Dilemma Cuckoldry

Nabokov?

what do you like by Joyce?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614906)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:10 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

i dig nabakov. i like everything abt joyce. have not read finnegan's wake tho

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614916)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:30 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

nobody has ever read finnegan's wake

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40615029)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 11:46 PM
Author: Chartreuse jewess fanboi

No apostrophe come on man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40615657)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:56 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

Harold Bloom:

Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614814)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:57 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

ins't he famous for penning a screed about western canon or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614829)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:59 PM
Author: duck-like hyperactive half-breed station

yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614848)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:00 PM
Author: topaz clown toilet seat

good man, but. Jewish. can't escape that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614854)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:03 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614870)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:59 PM
Author: buck-toothed plaza

I'd agree that DFW's prose style works against him at least as often as it works for him. I think he had solid ideas and insight though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614841)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:02 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

i agree--my copy of IJ has a few paragraphs and sentences marked up. but IJ didn't have a big, unifying idea interesting enuff to carry a book of that size. dfw's shorter, nonfiction stuff is pretty good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614866)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 11:47 PM
Author: Chartreuse jewess fanboi

Lmao

“But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40615661)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:58 PM
Author: Comical Pozpig

this critique seems pretty accurate: [T]he novel's Pynchonesque elements...feel rather willed and secondhand. They are impressive in the manner of a precocious child's performance at a dinner party, and, in the same way, ultimately irritating: they seem motivated, mostly, by a desire to show off."

dfw was a gen-x/poor man's pynchon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614834)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 8:58 PM
Author: concupiscible mad-dog skullcap

It is the Great American Novel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614836)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 9:13 PM
Author: Unholy Theater Stage Fat Ankles

I became extremely annoyed with it after about 50 pages and decided to cut my losses. This may be the only book I started and never finished. Just found it exhausting to read and not enjoyable at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40614932)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 11:40 PM
Author: Kink-friendly canary native boiling water

That's crazy. If you're not enjoying a book you should quit reading it and start another one. You'll never run out of good books and you might be wasting time on bad ones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40615648)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 11:49 PM
Author: Chartreuse jewess fanboi

Sometimes you gotta keep going though to make sure, e.g. Rabbit tetralogy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4585875&forum_id=2#40615664)



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Date: July 15th, 2020 11:47 PM
Author: heady indian lodge

I read it when I was unemployed, which helped a lot I think. It's so much to absorb, and it really comes together at the end in a more rewarding way if you don't read it over, say, 3 months. The good passages in IJ are as good as anything I've ever read, like the suicide attempt, or the eschaton game, or the Mt. Dilaudid part.

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Date: July 16th, 2020 9:15 AM
Author: Charcoal vibrant azn temple

it's up there w moby dick for best written work by an america. I have read it twice. the chapter on eschatology is the best thing anyone has ever written

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Date: July 16th, 2020 11:11 AM
Author: Ivory costumed den

I could never get through IJ. Really enjoyed Oblivion (in particular commentary on GC, eg a food company naming an indulgent candy bar "Felony!" to commoditize transgression in a profitable way). And the NYT sports "Federer as religious experience" is great. Collected essays on descriptivism vs prescriptivism, consider the lobster, etc were all interesting. But he's a little self indulgent for 1100 pages? I'm sure there are passages I would enjoy.

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