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Fried Watermelon posted:Don't worry the author didn't finish the book either lol
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 04:11 |
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:The book has a great description of how depression feels somewhere in the 1500 pages If you just want to read about how polish drug dealers describe their junk you don't have to go that deep
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 04:12 |
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There.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 04:13 |
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I read this book in prison while I was supposed to be teaching English to Honduran heroin dealers. 9/10 would prison again
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 06:23 |
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seems about as stupid as Gravity's Rainbow
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:00 |
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I think I went about 15 pages deep a few years ago, should finish the whole thang by next millenium.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:15 |
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I enjoyed reading it very much, although I had some trouble in the middle. Here is my stream of consciousness review. Eschaton gately o.n.a.n. rollents hal incandeza I really identify with failing to explain yourself in such a spectacular way that it disturbs people like guttural screeching tennis microwave year of the glad bag trash moat between the US and Canada the ultimate wntertainment righteous rage about marketing bad breath products halfway house dead cats support group
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:21 |
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i did like the whole video teleconferencing/chat page bc that was pretty true & prophetic. phone companies were pushing that poo poo as a major selling point about 5 years ago and then realized no one liked it or used it for those very reasons and thats not going to changequote:Why—though in the early days of Interlace’s internetted teleputers that operated off largely the same fiber-digital grid as the phone companies, the advent of video telephoning (a.k.a. ‘videophony’) enjoyed an interval of huge consumer popularity—callers thrilled at the idea of phone-interfacing both aurally and facially (the little first-generation phone-video cameras being too crude and narrow-apertured for anything much more than facial close-ups) on first-generation teleputers that at that time were little more than high-tech TV sets, though of course they had that little ‘intelligent-agent’ homuncular icon that would appear at the lower-right of a broadcast/cable program and tell you the time and temperature outside or remind you to take your blood-pressure medication or alert you to a particularly compelling entertainment-option now coming up on channel like 491 or something, or of course now alerting you to an incoming video-phone call and then tap-dancing with a little iconic straw boater and cane just under a menu of possible options for response, and callers did lover their little homuncular icons—but why, within like 16 months or 5 sales quarters, the tumescent demand curve for ‘videophony’ suddenly collapsed like a kicked tent, so that, by the year of the depend adult undergarment, fewer than 10% of all private telephone communications utilized any video-image-fiber data-transfers or coincident products and services, the average U.S. phone-user deciding that s/he actually preferred the retrograde old low-tech bell-era voice-only telephonic interface after all, a preferential about-face that cost a good many precipitant video-telephony-related entrepreneurs their shirts, plus destabilizing two highly respected mutual funds that had ground-floored heavily in video-phone technology, and very nearly wiping out the Maryland State employees’ retirement system’s Freddie-Mac fund, a fund whose administrator’s mistress’s brother had been an almost manically precipitant video-phone-technology entrepreneur… and but so why the abrupt consumer retreat back to good old voice-only telephoning? Xaris fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Dec 30, 2016 |
# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:28 |
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I couldn't get through the unabridged Tom Jones, Don Quixote, or Brothers Karamazov.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:36 |
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Xaris posted:*snip* this post represents infinite jest perfectly. You can read a line from that book and go "ok, this seems interesting!" Then you realize it just keeps going and going forever without stopping and you finally just say gently caress it
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:49 |
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I think I'm gonna write a book. It's inspiring to see lovely writers make it and gives me hope.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:50 |
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:I think I'm gonna write a book. It's inspiring to see lovely writers make it and gives me hope. Just make sure you tell a 300 page story over the course of 1200 pages and you'll have a best seller since people will assume it's deep if it's that long E: unlike your dick
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:52 |
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luv 2 date boys posted:Just make sure you tell a 300 page story over the course of 1200 pages and you'll have a best seller since people will assume it's deep if it's that long "telling a story" as if he finished the fuckin' book
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:53 |
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luv 2 date boys posted:this post represents infinite jest perfectly. You can read a line from that book and go "ok, this seems interesting!" Then you realize it just keeps going and going forever without stopping and you finally just say gently caress it ya i agree. I never finished it myself his shorts are pretty good because they take tha "ok this is interesting" and then it ends shortly after instead of going on and on
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 07:56 |
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luv 2 date boys posted:Just make sure you tell a 300 page story over the course of 1200 pages and you'll have a best seller since people will assume it's deep if it's that long I'm writing oprahs unauthorized biography but it's not oprah Winfrey it's Oprah the frog and she has striking but unintentional similarities to oprahs life and even says and does a lot of the things Winfrey has done verbatim, but get this, she's a FROG!
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:00 |
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I'm not mad, applewhite. I'm just disappointed.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:36 |
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Got such a boner for that eschaton scene
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:39 |
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It's jus a wee fook i' t'boom
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:39 |
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Reading infinite jest was a glorious experience
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:40 |
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bitmap posted:Got such a boner for that eschaton scene Yes
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:41 |
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I love the ingenious ways the Canadian separatist terrorists groups would attack people, like using the giant lifting mirror to get people to drive off the cliff Also how the book pretty much nailed the future ofvideo chatting , more or less
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:42 |
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I'm pretty sure the stories of the pregant addict and the one with the Raquel Welch mask left me a little traumatized
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:46 |
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I can relate, I never finished Infinite Warfare.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:46 |
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A middle-aged animator, preparing to instruct his forum in a big dumb book, becomes intoxicated in the main subforum and subjects applewhite to a rambling monologue while the poster weeps and perspires.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 08:53 |
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Xaris posted:i did like the whole video teleconferencing/chat page bc that was pretty true & prophetic. phone companies were pushing that poo poo as a major selling point about 5 years ago and then realized no one liked it or used it for those very reasons and thats not going to change How the hell did I read that whole book and enjoy it? I couldn't plow through that book now if I had a gun to my head. I just don't have the mental energy.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:22 |
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I read it like 7 times and my copy is really worn and it's one of my favourite books, unironically.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:29 |
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The dad tennis monologue that ends with him ruining his knees I think I've probably read a good 40+ times.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:30 |
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I don't even care if GBS is where you're supposed to be ironic and jaded and say stuff like I'm gay (which I am) - I really truly do want to own up to liking and appreciating infinite jest immensely. I haven't read it for a couple of years and I'm not going to touch it again for a decade or so, in the hope of forgetting so much of it that when I re-read it in my forties it'll feel like it did the first time I read it.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:32 |
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"it's like somersaulting with one hand nailed to the floor" is a genius fake "everyone keeps saying this and understanding it through this lens but i don't have a loving clue what it means" phrase which defined broad periods of my life in high school and college, and is loving awesome, like infinite jest
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:37 |
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i really do struggle to express why and how that phrase resonates with me so much, but it does
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:38 |
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eliminate your own map for keeps, OP
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:49 |
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Minimalist Program posted:I don't even care if GBS is where you're supposed to be ironic and jaded and say stuff like I'm gay (which I am) - I really truly do want to own up to liking and appreciating infinite jest immensely. I haven't read it for a couple of years and I'm not going to touch it again for a decade or so, in the hope of forgetting so much of it that when I re-read it in my forties it'll feel like it did the first time I read it. Shh they'll make fun of us
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 10:54 |
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i prefer the porno version about one giant titty
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 11:16 |
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who reads books these days wtf
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 11:41 |
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Minimalist Program posted:I read it like 7 times and my copy is really worn and it's one of my favourite books, unironically. Minimalist Program posted:The dad tennis monologue that ends with him ruining his knees I think I've probably read a good 40+ times. Minimalist Program posted:I don't even care if GBS is where you're supposed to be ironic and jaded and say stuff like I'm gay (which I am) - I really truly do want to own up to liking and appreciating infinite jest immensely. I haven't read it for a couple of years and I'm not going to touch it again for a decade or so, in the hope of forgetting so much of it that when I re-read it in my forties it'll feel like it did the first time I read it.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 11:50 |
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i enjoy letting wonderful literature sit on my book self to let it mature. It may get dusty before I pull it down, but I will one day pull it down and read, and keep reading.
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 11:50 |
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i'm glad i bought the Kindle edition instead of hard-copy because hoo boy there were a lot of hyperlinks
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 11:57 |
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eric clipperton was a hero
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 12:21 |
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there was one bit where don gately's driving in the borrowed mustang and wallace describes a piece of paper being kicked up by the car's draft and floats across the street landing near that video store targeted by the quebecois wheelchair terrorists as a transition between two plot threads where i thought dude you're nowhere near a good enough writer to pull that poo poo off other than that it was an okay book. kinda peters out in the last 150 pages or so
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# ? Dec 30, 2016 12:28 |
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i strongly enjoyed, the book if you don't like it that's ok it just means we like different things. for example, i like good things.
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