/lit/ - Literature

What is Infinite Jest about and is it worth reading?

I'm not gonna be able to keep up with all these characters and their personal interrelations, have you got good Infinite Jest charts anons? There are some out there I know

...so he's post-Salinger with an ironic sense of humor? That's what you've been creaming your pants over?

So is this basically just the Jojo's Bizarre Adventures of literature?

>DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!

>tfw it becomes cool to love this book again
dabbing on the 'contrarian' art hoes

What a fucking log of shit. I'm using this book's pages to wipe my ass clean next time I run short on toilet paper.

What are some books you buy but never read?

umm, try again sweetie

>doing some smurfs LARPing with my nephews
>I'm gargamel, they're my animals
>one of them falls off the slide
>lying on his side on the ground
>the face of a shell-shocked man
"So hey like what's your story man?" - the quote popped to my mind.

Is this book gonna haunt me like this forever? I should reread it someday.

Have you guys had any quotes appearing so floating-flashbulb-over-the-head-like?

Is 'The Entertainment' just a form of ASMR?

>>9354436
This meme ass book lol

T H I C C

I'm glad he decided to abbreviate w/r/t. The book might have gotten a little bit on the long side if he hadn't.

because it sucks. overhyped trash, got to the part with the mental hospital, and having experienced 6 of them from the perspective of a patient first hand, it filled me with such disgust that i had to set the book down and I simply never went back. It wasn't difficult or beautifully written, and the endnotes seemed very for lack of a better word "tryhardy". It's a shame there wasn't any discernible talent.

regarding stranger in a strange land, I read it as a kid, thought it was the greatest thing ever, grew up, went back and read it again, couldn't see what i saw in it as a kid. Some things might just be for people at a certain time of their lives.

What went wrong?

when will the next Infinite Jest come along in terms of big, complex, zeitgeist capturing, popular bestselling literary fiction?

i don't know how many of you remember 1996 but Infinite Jest was a big deal in a way we haven't really seen since, not to say better books haven't been written but i am more wondering when the next blockbuster of literary fiction will come along

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44422641-oedipa-maas

Finished The Great American Novel. It's no meme. Dave had a big heart and a big big big ego.

ITT: post how you thought a book was gonna be before you actually read it

>scifi dystopia
>kids from a tennis academy hear about a film so good it kills you
>some junkies looking for the ultimate high also hear about it
>the groups intersect in their search for the film that doesn't exist

What is your favorite book that was released the same year as you were born?

Has anyone on /lit/ actually read this book?
All memes aside, I thought it was an excellent, albeit lengthy, novel when it came to conveying the atmosphere of elitism and consumerist society that has fostered the widespread depressive, amoral, and nihilistic attitudes in this generation.
I don't see why people shit all over this book, even if a few chapters are just one-sentence rambling of drug addicts.
What do you think of this book?

>>7449699
Which edition of Infinite Jest should I get for reading?

Is this the best book of all time?