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Anonymous Mon Apr 8 23:59:01 2019 No.12905126 [Reply] [Original]

Unironically why should I read this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 23:59:41 2019 No.12905131 idk do you want to?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:01:05 2019 No.12905139 >>12905131 I want to know what it offers

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:02:42 2019 No.12905149 have you read anything by wallace yet? or watched any interviews or listened to any of his speeches or essays?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:03:41 2019 No.12905151 >>12905126 I like the gradual world-building in it. It deals with themes of addiction and depression mostly but is still quite humorous in between some of the darker moments

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:03:56 2019 No.12905152 I rarely laugh audibly at literature but I can think of few peices of art that left me in as much hysterical glee as the opening chapter

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:04:39 2019 No.12905156 >>12905149 My only exposure is with the End of Tour movie which was somewhat enjoyable

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:07:08 2019 No.12905162 Ever wanted to stick it to your 8th grade teacher? Wallace does everything she warned you not to, and he's a New York Times Bestseller. Go figure. Bitch.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:10:49 2019 No.12905174 >>12905156 i would pursue some of his essays and what can be found on youtube freely before investing in the big boy book. i think a lot of people go straight to IJ and get a radically opinion of him. https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:14:40 2019 No.12905182 To unironically be ironic

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:17:07 2019 No.12905191 >>12905139 >I want to know what it offers infinte jest

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 00:19:41 2019 No.12905193 comfiest read all year

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 01:05:13 2019 No.12905350 it's funny.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 01:15:44 2019 No.12905393 >>12905126 read good old neon (one of the greatest short stories ever written) first

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 01:33:54 2019 No.12905455 >>12905126 Pretty much every sentence is gorgeous.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 9 01:55:22 2019 No.12905541 File: 45 KB, 399x404, 15482869583232.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12905455 t. Undergrad English major's preference falsified opinion. DFW's writing is awful.