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>The whole thing is almost too involved to try to take in all at once. It's simply huge. (67)
>The whole thing's unpleasant and dry and repetitive and mostly dull. (1012 n.110)
>...[I]s the puzzlement and then boredom and then impatience and then excruciation and then near-rage aroused in the film's audience by the static repetitive final 1/3 of the film aroused for some theoretical-aesthetic end, or is Himself simply an amazingly shitty editor of his own stuff? (947)

ITT books that criticize themselves

>> No.13384450

What is this book about?

>> No.13384950

>>13384450
Boredome and addiction is actually our coping mechanism to avoid confront ourselves.

>> No.13384956

>>13384950
*confronting*

>> No.13385233

>>13384950
While also being ourselves

>> No.13385243

>>13384950
that's very true

>> No.13385934

>>13384950
also addiction programs like AA are just replacing drug addiction with other addictions to empty rituals which just help you further avoid real introspection. I've heard readings of the books that interpret the AA parts as positive and sincere and stuff, but it really doesn't seem that way to me.

>> No.13385960

Just B&C yourself bro

>> No.13386255

>>13385934

Really? I thought he was criticizing the cynical/patronizing view people take to AA, especially outsiders, being that the 12 step program is a series of overwrought cliches. His argument being that the 12 step is extremely effective IF you sincerely approach the program leaving the ironical detachment at the door, and attempt to engage, even if it’s lame, prosaic, something like that.

>> No.13386501

Is this book about that feel?

>> No.13386553

>>13384950
I'm sure his conception of "confronting oneself" is the most droll, bourgeois, and suburban it could possibly be. I can't even begin to imagine what someone like David Foster Wallace means by "confronting oneself", but it's probably something incredibly stupid like "be nice but without sacrificing authenticity when you make small talk with the cashier at the grocery store".

>> No.13386594

>>13386553
Yeah he would write anything to make readers feel good, to feel good about himself.

>> No.13386640

>>13386553
>>13386594

Of the many possible criticisms of David Foster Wallace, this is pretty off base. His self-loathing exceeded well past normal autist levels and his characters do all kinds of fucked up things.

>> No.13386676

>>13384257
Is he talking about Kubrick’s 2001?

>> No.13386680

>>13386553
Do us a favour and look up the word droll sweatie

>> No.13386682

>>13386640
According to many public testimonies, his essays' prude "yours. correspondance." is a grossly deceptive self-image.

>> No.13386765
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13386765

Just a big sardonic joke, and retards go around raving about it, not realizing that they were the butt

>> No.13387666

>>13384257
What was Accomplice! really about? that one movie was really messed up and I can't place it with the rest of the book.

>> No.13387731

>>13386640
>His self-loathing exceeded well past normal autist levels and his characters do all kinds of fucked up things.
That is still very droll, bourgeois, and suburban desu.

>> No.13387885

>>13387731
t. marxist retard. Disregard

>> No.13388453

>>13386682
Literally everyone has a deceptive self-image that they project to the world.

Stop being a bitter incel.

>> No.13388460

>>13386765
You misinterpret the Gnostic meanings behind the title, brainlet. This has been a trope in literature since Shakespeare.

Read more, and stop parroting nonsense that other dumbasses spew.

>> No.13389443

>>13384950
can't believe people need 600+ pgs of made up shit to tell them this

>> No.13389901

>>13384950
Its not its just biological desires not being suitable for the modern world

>> No.13389986

>>13388460
Calling others brainlets and dumbasses makes your point come across as ignorant. You also demonstrate a core misunderstanding of gnostic interpretations, may want to read more yourself. Come back when you read books, this isn't for shitposting your professor's latest rants and raves.

>> No.13390475

>>13389986
No I don't, dumbass. Calling people dumb doesn't do anything but point out that you're dumb.

Stop being dumb.

>> No.13390724

>>13389901
>muh evolutionary psychology
>my brain HUNTS slot machine and rape prey
Human are more than that.