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>> No.22546658

>>22546648
He didn't do anything. Blame the radio and video for totally pulverizing literature. If those two things had never been created literature would have remained as good and strong as ever. PCs and Vidya and other things are just pissing on the body.

>> No.22546691

>>22546658
Yeah I agree. We are all just hooked on these garbage instruments and addicted.

>> No.22546724

>>22546648
Literature is still alive and well despite what many on this board say.

>> No.22546731

Is Oblivion a good starting point for DFW?

>> No.22546740

>>22546731
Start with IJ unless you have no interest in his novels.

>> No.22546747

>>22546648
The 1k page count American zeitgeist novel was a dead concept and he beat the odds and put out a good one. I think he probably realized that wasn't going to happen again and put his talents to work running a literary gamut.

>> No.22546759
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22546759

no. gen x was the last time people read books in general, they produced writers of a certain caliber like dfw, easton ellis, chuck phalinuk, Zadie Smith, etc.

What did millennials produce?

jk rowling?

alt lit? lol


What have zoomers produced, NOTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

>> No.22546765

>>22546747
Anon, he already had a short story collection and was a fairly respected essayist before IJ, most if not all of the essays in A Supposedly Fun Thing were published in various journals and magazines before IJ came out.

>> No.22546767

>>22546759
Zoomers still have time. Don't expect much from millenials.

>> No.22547204

>>22546767
Why not?

>> No.22547217

>>22547204
Most of them are in their primes at this point. What notable works have they produced?

>> No.22547220

>>22547217
i get the jist

>> No.22547413

>>22546648
He looks like freakin Thanos. Of course his goal was to destroy literature.

>> No.22547479

>>22546740
Should I read Broom of the System first? I’ve been reading Pynchon in order and finding it fun tracing the themes through the works

>> No.22547657

>>22547413
>He looks like freakin Thanos
To me I always see Daniel Jackson from SG1

>> No.22547707

>>22546759
>What did millennials produce?
>jk rowling?
She was born in 1965, the border between Boomer and X.

>> No.22547792

>>22547479
Broom of the System is best left to completionists, same for Girl with the Curious Hair. They are very different works compared to the rest and we don't see the sort of development and evolution with Wallace here like we do with most, more the major course change of a hard left.

>> No.22548063

Will buy The Pale King next week! Let's gooo!

>> No.22549629

>>22548063
Isn't that the unfinished one? Unfinished books are like ruined orgasms bro

>> No.22549642

>>22546724
Name 10 great books that came out this century

>> No.22549761

>>22549642
Antiracist Baby

>> No.22550305

>>22549761
Antiracist Baby 2: the Placentas Revenge

>> No.22550367

>>22546658
Hard agree. How could one author ever have the impact of a trillion dollar global tech industry.

>> No.22550407

>>22549642
In the Distance, Inside Story, The Echo Maker, Train Dreams, A Visit From The Goon Squad, Outline, Freedom, Eileen, The Netanyahus, The Known World, Europe Central, Austerlitz, The Orphan Master's Son, 2666.

That should be at least 10. Although a few of those authors have better/more important works which came out this century, I sort of went with my favorite, can't really deny that The Corrections is going to outlive freedom and have a larger influence on things to come.

>> No.22550429
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22550429

>>22546724
Alive, sure. Well? Not even remotely. Literacy rates are plummeting by the year worldwide, especially among boys/men.

>> No.22550438

>>22550407
Really good list except The Netanyahus which is midwit at best.

>> No.22550521

>>22550429
Literacy rates have a very long ways to go before they have any effect on literature.
>>22550438
It requires a decent knowledge of the history of Israel and its politics as well as the US in those times which was almost a factory for Benjamin Netanyahu sorts and had been for quite some time; come to America for school then head back home to apply what you learned and see just how much of a mess you can make on the world stage. It is an interesting way too look at Bibi and who he was/what he would become, the family dynamics being an allusion to Netanyahu era Israeli politics was well done.