/lit/ - Literature

holy,

>the story of a boy who becomes rich in wall street
is it as boring as it sounds? i know it's supposed to be funny and stuff, but is the argument THAT dull??

>>16350211
Read Gravity's Rainbow. For me it's pic related

Reading this on stimulants, holy... i mean ahm yes that is to say Hoppin' with Flavor! oh boy...

Ahem

Been reading J R, around 30% through with it and holy, this here book was so surprising to me when I started reading it. It's the first Gaddis I've read and when I started it I thought it'd just be a meme book but it ended up being hilarious and entertaining and making me burst out laughing nearly every page. I think it might be the funniest book I've read so far.

Every scene with either Bast or J R, and the scenes where Gibbs is drunk and incoherent have all managed to make me burst out laughing, and there's funny shit on nearly every page that makes me crack a smile. Gaddis kind of has a reputation of being absurdly difficult so I never expected the book to be so fucking funny.

It's a book I'm surprised isn't that popular. It definitely deserves to be held up there as one of the greats, but perhaps I will reserve my judgment to when I hit the ending. Definitely gonna check out The Recognitions after this.

Do you need to know a lot of business and stonk terminology in order to understand this?

>>15732801

masterpiece. why haven't you read it?

Opening scene was really funny and engaging but have lost track/interest/focus in the subsequent episodes. Keep thinking it would make a great film with all of the Altman-esque overlapping dialogue but it's been a task to read.

too long? or not long enough?

170 pages in and this book is blowing my expectations away

Post based reviews


https://youtu.be/sFz5lcymVRM

>>12789606
In all of literature. Just found out about this book.

But what did it mean

Can a book with a complicated plot ever be good?

Fuck. Its been three years and I still haven't read a better book. I keep this thing on my coffee table and have all the apartment scenes dog eared for my reading pleasure. Who's footprints were on the wall though?

Almost done with this and I'm really loving it. It's like Gaddis destroyed Reaganomics five years before it even became a thing.

>HE COST MILLIONS OF JOBS

Man J.R. is a little piece of shit, HOLY...