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feraltennisprodigy posted:OP: check out End Zone by DeLillo, it's basically the proto-Infinite Jest. There's even a nuclear warfare game in one scene End Zone is my favorite DeLillo novel but I don't think it's THAT similar to IJ beyond them both having hyper literate young people (characters in DeLillo novels tend to all more or less talk like Don DeLillo) and a nuclear war game, and the games aren't even really that similar. DFW did freak out and apologize to DeLillo for ripping him off in a letter, but I think that was just him be overly nervous about one of his big heros thinking he'd plagerized him. The two books deal with really different themes. IJ has the war game, but it's not really about war. End Zone is. Walh Hara posted:Side note: Vonnegut deserves more praise. I feel like Kurt Vonnegut is about as close to universially well liked as an author can get. He's great but I think everyone knows that. But maybe I just only hang out with the sorts of people who would read Vonnegut. MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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