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15564798 No.15564798 [Reply] [Original]

I thought about buying a physical copy of Infinite Jest but I'm a bit insecure, like it makes me look like a douche reading it in public.

>> No.15564805

>>15564798
just dont read it outside

>> No.15564833

>>15564798
Literally just read it in your room. What are you fuckin homeless?

Also, who cares? Nobody is looking at you. Do you judge people that harshly just for reading a book in public? If you don't, then why do you respect the opinion of those who do?

>> No.15564845

>>15564798
Not a douche, just like you’re trying to impress people

>>15564833
>Do you judge people that harshly just for reading a book in public?
Yes

>> No.15564877

>>15564845
I mean, same, but I know normies aren't.

>> No.15565050

>>15564798
You can't even go out nigga like just go for it

>> No.15565067

What is wrong with this book? Is that because of his suicide?

>> No.15565076

>>15564798
you can get some brown paper and make your own cover for it if you're worried that it's pretentious or just naturally inclined to want privacy in this respect

>> No.15565082
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15565082

>>15565067
No it's because the books is low quality trash.

>> No.15565098

>>15565082
Dunno, just read it. Get a Harry Potter cover or something like the other anon said KEK then you can pass as a normie.

>> No.15565119

>>15564798
I read a lot of Infinite Jest in the library between classes when I was in college for about two months, nobody gave me weird looks and unironically one qt approached me to talk about it but I was way too autistic to make anything of it

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15565176

>>15564798
David Foster Wallace is a great writer, but Infinite Jest is an overrated piece of trash. Watch The End of the Tour, then read his 3 essay compilations instead.

>> No.15565190

>>15565098
>>15565067
Yeah this is a good workaround. Just grab a dust jacket from another book.

>> No.15565252

>>15564798
>he reads outside of his house
>he can focus on reading and enjoy it outside of a house/walk along with gf/friend
>he cares about what some retards think of him
Fuck off, turbofaggot.

>> No.15565269

>>15565252
Dunno, bro. I know how the OP feels. And I honestly read some books on my kindle that I would never read in public.

>> No.15565271

>>15565252
>he doesn’t judge people reading in public harshly by their selection
>he doesn’t make his art-hoe gf laugh with snide remarks about the pseuds they pass
Why live

>> No.15565308

>>15565269
The only one for me was Lolita. I’m way too ugly to pull that look off

>> No.15565338

>>15565308
I still haven't read that one, but I read some pretty bizarre shit. Some art books too, with nude people on the cover.

>> No.15565620

>>15565098
Get a dust jacket for a dry technical book in a different language. Even if someone can read it, they won't bother you about "Hungarian manufacturing white paper, 2007".
And if a random idiot asks you what language that is, you can pretend to not speak English.

>> No.15565682

If you wanna get girls you need a media tie in cover for whatever is in theaters or on HBO

>> No.15567082

You’re still a douche.

>> No.15567294

>>15567082
The author is better than that book

>> No.15567619

>>15564877
Here's the truth, OP. Less than 1% of people know who DFW is. Less than 1% of that 1% think he's a pretentious wankjob, so you will just be impressing a few pseud English majors and everyone else will be ignoring you.

You are under the impression everyone's as harshly critical as you, and they're not.

But if you're still that self-absorbed, throw some brown paper on that shit.

>> No.15567629

>>15565308
Same, thankfully it's a pretty quick read so I just stayed in for a couple days to polish it off.

>> No.15567640

>>15564798
It makes you look like a chad

>> No.15568255

>>15565176
>watch the end of tour

Fucking why? That movie is so absurdly mediocre, if you are interested in DFW just watch interviews, that movie is for people whove never heard of him