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The terrible writing which makes up this absolute pile of horseshit has made me cringe to the point that I had to stop reading for a couple of seconds to make it through a couple of paragraphs. I have burst out laughing at how terrible it is. Now I'm over it. How the fuck can something so shit become so popular? I hate this piece of shit. Fuck this book. Fuck this planet. Fuck the people who like this book. And fuck the people who don't like it, too. Fuck baby squirrels. Fuck starving and sick children. Fuck everything that has happened in the history of this universe. David Foster Wallace, you fucking dickhead. You worthless hunk of shit. You think you're a good writer because your stupid fucking book is so highly rated on /lit/? Die. You fucking faggot. Fucking jump into a volcano.

>> No.6438845

Give us some of your worst excerpts then, I got tennis elbow just looking at it.

>> No.6438918
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6438918

>>6438707

>> No.6438935

>>6438707
Dood he an hero a long time ago, like 2009?
And people here mostly like it ironically and for the jokes, aside from the couple fags who aren't in on that.

>> No.6438951

>>6438935
ebin :^)
meme'd it to overdrive, my good gentleman!

>> No.6438986

>>6438707
>so highly rated on /lit/

its not. its just posted by the constant influx of outsiders. thats like saying /ck/ loves sriracha

>> No.6439004

>>6438986
Bullshit. The contrarian backlash against DFW only began in earnest in 2012 or '13. During /lit/'s Golden Age he was near universally liked. If you hate DFW, chances are you are part of the reason this board sucks now.

>> No.6439018

>>6439004
actually /lit/'s golden age was the first week after its creation in late January 2010, and ever since it has been a completely worthless pile of shit

>> No.6439032

>>6439018
It was full of memeposting and /b/tards during its earliest days. /lit/ was best for about a year after the tripfags were banned or chased off, which was I think mid-2012 until mid-2013.

>> No.6439043

>>6439032
no /lit/ was best when there was a new post practically every second, IE during the first week of its existence, before people got bored of it

>> No.6439464

>>6439043
>>>/b/

seriously

>> No.6439486

>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My pasture is congruent to the shale of my hard wood chair.
Dropped.

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>>6438707
>Die. You fucking faggot
Uhm, anon...

>> No.6439525

The only reason this book is hated on is bc lit is full of pseud contrarians who like to go against anything that is really popular. They dont realize something can be both popular and good. These are also the type of people who criticize Zeppelin while applauding obscure garage rock bands from the 90's

>> No.6439526

>>6439004
>The contrarian backlash against DFW only began in earnest in 2012 or '13. During /lit/'s Golden Age he was near universally liked.

No, this isn't accurate.

>> No.6439535

>>6439525
IJ and DFW aren't popular.

>> No.6439539

>>6439535
Oh
My
Fug

>> No.6439548

>Implying this post isn't David Foster "Faked-his-death" Wallace baiting for compliments.

Go to bed David.

>> No.6439552

>>6439535
if nothing else they are popular in the context of this board

>> No.6439558

>>6439525
Zeppelin are awesome and any "obscure garage rock bands from the 90s" were just better produced rehashes of the garage rock bands from the 60s and DFW still blows.

>> No.6439561

ITT: Contrarians contradicting other contrarians contradictions

>> No.6439642

I want the DFW bashing to end. I really like him, and Good Old Neon is a masterpiece

>> No.6439652

>>6439642
it just happens to currently be in vogue... within a year I'm sure we will move on to Joyce bashing or something

>> No.6439657

New here.
Is this copypasta?
Cause it's pretty good.

>> No.6439663

>>6439657
Lurk moar

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>>6438707
>The terrible writing which
>which

>> No.6439669

>>6439558
>zeppelin are awesome
Stopped reading there

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>>6439666
how to discern which and that?

>> No.6439693

>>6439657
He copy and pasted the text from a thread this morning about Ready Player One or whatever it's called.

>> No.6439719

>>6439692
If it is necessary for identification in the sentence, it is that. If it's extraneous information, it is which and should be used in a nonrestrictive clause.

Examples:

The cow that is brown is prettier than the rest

The cow, which is brown, is alone in the field.

You need to know the cow is brown to differentiate it from the other cows in the first sentence, making the information necessary, and so it's "that." It isn't necessary in the second sentence. Similarly, you would use "that" because you're referring exclusively to the writing in this book and therefore it is necessary information.