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13579347 No.13579347 [Reply] [Original]

This book makes me want to claw my fucking eyes out.

>> No.13579349

Then don't fucking read it, stupid

>> No.13579363

if i liked brief interviews with hideous men, will i like this?

>> No.13579383

Yeah?

>> No.13579406

>>13579363
Yes.

>>13579349
This.

>> No.13579408

>>13579349
How is he gonna have the honor of saying he read it?

Worst book ever IMO is Metamorphoses by Ovid

>> No.13579410

>>13579347
Burn it

>> No.13579430

Just finished it two days ago. Really liked it. What do you not like about it OP?

>> No.13579432

>>13579347
Why do you think it's called infinite jest?

>> No.13579462

>>13579430
It's my first book I've read of David Foster and his writing style is different than other books I read.

>> No.13580295

>>13579462
Not sure how far few you are but at a point the style and the footnotes became endearing to me rather than intrusive.

>> No.13580304

>>13579347
So you can focus on the audiobook

>> No.13580312

>>13579347
Is that a mario reference

The mario parts are worth the slog alone

>> No.13580352

>>13579347
Bro. What if The Entertainment is the current state of the internet? And the late DFW was able to predict it. He predicted human's using social media as a way to torture one's inner anxieties.

>> No.13580399

>>13580352
the entertainment is everything you retard.

>> No.13580401

>>13580312
Yeah wish we got a scene of Mario hanging with the halfway home folks.

>> No.13580415

>>13580401
The scene when the ugly girl tries to have sex with mario hit way too close

>> No.13580431

>>13580415
Yeah he really was a good character still good ol Don G. was my favorite

>> No.13580439

>>13580312
The Hal/Mario conversations are kino

>> No.13580440

>>13579410
figures the transexual hates this book.
i will admit, the book doesn't have flattering portrayals of their kind, but l think you'd be missing the point if you thought they were purely ill-intentioned. He's really saying trannies are more vulnerable to the system, which is the one with true ill-intentions for everyone.

He might also be saying something about it being a symptom of betrayal by loved ones, whrere you try to assume the role that was lost or something. idk its confusing.

>> No.13580452

I prefer my jests to be finite

>> No.13580478

>>13579347
As soon as I found out that it takes place in and around a tennis school I fucking dropped it.

It smelled of YA shit.

>> No.13580770

>>13580478
Guess you only read big boy books about battles and kings huh champ

>> No.13580777

>>13580478
most plots are happening at the rehab bro

>> No.13580782

Haven't you learned OP? Anything peddled by the masses is terrible

Find your own authors

>> No.13581799

>In the novel's future world, the United States, Canada, and Mexico together compose a unified North American superstate known as the Organization of North American Nations, or O.N.A.N. (an allusion to onanism).[10]

>Corporations are allowed the opportunity to bid for and purchase naming rights for each calendar year, replacing traditional numerical designations with ostensibly honorary monikers bearing corporate names. Although the narrative is fragmented and spans several "named" years, most of the story takes place during "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" (Y.D.A.U.).

>On the orders of U.S. President Johnny Gentle (a "clean freak" who campaigned on the platform of cleaning up the USA while ensuring that no American would be caused any discomfort in the process), much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a giant hazardous waste dump, an area "given" to Canada and known as the "Great Concavity" by Americans due to the resulting displacement of the border.

Holy fuck, is this really the setting of Infinite Jest? This shit is idiocracy-tier retardation.

>> No.13581817

>>13580304
I would only be interested if the audiobook was actually read by DFW, I like his cadence.

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>>13579408
This is an awful opinion

>> No.13582162

try reading it when you AREN'T menstruating, sis

>> No.13582172

>>13581799
Nice b8

>> No.13582178

Sometimes I think about reading it, but then I recall one particularly dorky paragraph I've read somewhere at random, and say, fuck that noise, pham, could read complete Borges instead.

>> No.13582222

>>13579349
but then my friends on /lit/ will stop liking me.

>> No.13582339

honestly no idea what about this book riles you people up so much. I've read it, and it's not that grating, it's not that pretentious, and it's not that experimental. it's pretty much the epitome of 6/10 slightly-above-average writing

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>>13582339
its like a shit version of pic related

>> No.13582393

>>13582348
That looks terrible.

>> No.13582488

>>13582339
>>13582348
>>13581799
>>13580478
loooooool fucking fags think this is what the book is ABOUT.
kill yourself you fucking wiki-skimmers.