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*In DFW voice, pronouncing it the correct way* What a banal thread.
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*In DFW voice, pronouncing it the correct way* ccccklkkktthjhhhhjhhhnhhlllkkkķkkkllllllkkcxcccvvhjklll
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Dec 31, 2016 17:38
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Dec 31, 2016 17:41
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https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/consider-the-pothead-i-smoked-weed-out-of-infinite-jest
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Dec 31, 2016 17:44
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Infinite Jest seems like it would be hard to finish reading, being infinite. I never got through the actual Neverending Story, so I'm citing that as proof.
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Dec 31, 2016 17:46
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A garbage book for sad sacks
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Dec 31, 2016 17:48
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ElGroucho posted:A garbage book for sad sacks You would think so from the title alone. A good joke is about being concise and delivered in a timely manner. An infinitely long joke is infinitely terrible. Did I just guess the ending? I honestly know nothing about the book.
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Dec 31, 2016 17:52
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Pvt.Scott posted:You would think so from the title alone. A good joke is about being concise and delivered in a timely manner. An infinitely long joke is infinitely terrible. Did I just guess the ending? I honestly know nothing about the book. Looks like you just saved yourself $25.99
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Dec 31, 2016 18:02
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Pvt.Scott posted:You would think so from the title alone. A good joke is about being concise and delivered in a timely manner. An infinitely long joke is infinitely terrible. Did I just guess the ending? I honestly know nothing about the book. Even worse! Some big drug man wakes up on cold sand and it's raining or something and maybe the tide is out? loving garbage.
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Dec 31, 2016 18:11
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Pvt.Scott posted:You would think so from the title alone. A good joke is about being concise and delivered in a timely manner. An infinitely long joke is infinitely terrible. Did I just guess the ending? I honestly know nothing about the book. it's from hamlet you dim philistine
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Dec 31, 2016 19:05
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Can someone explain the ending because I didn't get it completely Like... It's a dream but the real ending happened earlier maybe?
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Dec 31, 2016 19:23
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Can someone explain the ending because I didn't get it completely What?
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Dec 31, 2016 19:23
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Can someone explain the ending because I didn't get it completely if you mean the last scene, iirc it is gately's rock bottom. not a dream but it did happen "earlier"
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Dec 31, 2016 19:27
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thathonkey posted:if you mean the last scene, iirc it is gately's rock bottom. not a dream but it did happen "earlier" gently caress I'm gonna have to read these loving 1500 pages again
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Dec 31, 2016 19:32
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Verdugo posted:https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/consider-the-pothead-i-smoked-weed-out-of-infinite-jest How did I miss this?
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Dec 31, 2016 19:32
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I've started and stopped this and Cloud Atlas and Underworld a bunch of times. The only 1000+ page novel I ever got thru was 1Q84.
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Dec 31, 2016 19:33
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it is impossible to fully understand on first read because you have to remember parts from literally 1000 pages ago or go back and reread them but it's still fun on that initial pass just dont worry too much about the intricacies of the plot
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Dec 31, 2016 19:34
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:gently caress I'm gonna have to read these loving 1500 pages again IIRC, and I'm smashed in an Irish pub, the scene with Gately and his unfortunate mate, "sunshine" and the tranny jackboot squad, was right before he signed into rehab. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 31, 2016 19:42
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Verdugo posted:https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/consider-the-pothead-i-smoked-weed-out-of-infinite-jest Anti-Intellectual Moron posted:I give the Infinite Jest bowl a 9.5/10. I would've given it a 10/10 if it was a book I actually read and enjoyed, and an 11/10 if the book wasn't written by a white dude. She's right though, they put special psychoactive glue in copies of Between the World and Me, poo poo gets you wreeeeeecked
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Dec 31, 2016 19:55
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Also I'm in love with the rise of the term "lit-bro" surrounding the DFW adherents because each clickbait thinkpiece about the supposed phenomenon just screams "I'm insanely self-conscious about not being smart enough for DFW's writings so I'm going to turn not reading him into some sort of moral good"
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Dec 31, 2016 20:01
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I love DFW and I cried when he died and I have a tattoo based on his story Good Old Neon. Eat it hatin-rear end suckas
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Dec 31, 2016 20:08
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thathonkey posted:it is impossible to fully understand on first read because you have to remember parts from literally 1000 pages ago or go back and reread them but it's still fun on that initial pass just dont worry too much about the intricacies of the plot Yeah lmao,literally read a 1200 page book at least twice dO IT it's really good n fun n cool i mean it!!
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Dec 31, 2016 20:11
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I bet DFW would have had a very wry longform about smartphones in him.
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Dec 31, 2016 20:38
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i wouldve liked to read it
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Dec 31, 2016 20:42
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there isn't really an ending it just stops but each plot thread is heading towards some kind of conclusion and you can pretty much figure it out or read it on the internet the last chronological event is the first page of the book when they're interviewing the kid and he freaks out cause he ingested that drug on his toothbrush
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Dec 31, 2016 20:46
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thathonkey posted:it's from hamlet you dim philistine Just because you borrow a fragment of dialogue, written by a mediocre slam poetry theatre major (with more street cred than warranted) for your title, doesn't mean your book is going to be good.
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Dec 31, 2016 20:52
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ProperCoochie posted:I love DFW and I cried when he died and I have a tattoo based on his story Good Old Neon. Eat it hatin-rear end suckas Where is you're sad brains badge? Oh, tattooed on your body
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Dec 31, 2016 21:06
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Mr. Unlucky posted:there isn't really an ending it just stops but each plot thread is heading towards some kind of conclusion and you can pretty much figure it out or read it on the internet I feel pretty bad for Michael Pemulis. I mean yeah he was one of the novel's antichrists but getting tossed from ETA must've really hurt.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:20
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That scene with the tennis game/Risk board game owns Some band made a video about it, but I forget who they are I honestly would like to re-read it again, it's a fun book, motherfucker is smart but in a self aware loser style which resonates with me
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Dec 31, 2016 23:24
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:That scene with the tennis game/Risk board game owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I
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Dec 31, 2016 23:26
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The eschatology bit was great but for the most part the book is mad overrated. I loled irl when DFW described Hal's underground smoke out room as 'unfenestrated'. The chapters written in first person perspective by writing the prose with an accent or some poo poo were terrible. It's a decent book but hipsters have put it on a pedestal for gimmicky bullshit that doesn't make it any better. Like oh, there's hundreds of annotations! So what? Why the gently caress does that make it some sort of masterpiece?
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Squashing Machine posted:Also I'm in love with the rise of the term "lit-bro" surrounding the DFW adherents because each clickbait thinkpiece about the supposed phenomenon just screams "I'm insanely self-conscious about not being smart enough for DFW's writings so I'm going to turn not reading him into some sort of moral good" which seems kinda silly because of all the problems with wallace's style being hard to read or understand isn't one of them he wrote in a fairly plain and straightforward fashion for the most part. it's not like cormac mccarthy or something where half the time it just seems like he's loving with the reader
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darth_pizza posted:I've started and stopped this and Cloud Atlas and Underworld a bunch of times. The only 1000+ page novel I ever got thru was 1Q84. Infinite Jest is better than Underworld, 1Q84 and Cloud Atlas. But the best 1000+ page novel is Shogun by James Clavell.
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Only 1k+ page books I've ever read at infinite jest and gravity's rainbow and rainbow was way better. The actually story was much more of a senseless jumble in GR but the writing was so good that I liked it more. IJ had some cool and interesting ideas but was overall a pretty meh reading experience. Then again, I tend to appreciate writing style more than plot.
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Gravity rainbow is 760 gtfo scrub
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Illavick posted:Only 1k+ page books I've ever read at infinite jest and gravity's rainbow and rainbow was way better. The actually story was much more of a senseless jumble in GR but the writing was so good that I liked it more. IJ had some cool and interesting ideas but was overall a pretty meh reading experience. Then again, I tend to appreciate writing style more than plot. gravity's rainbow is only 760 pages you MORON
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Jan 1, 2017 03:19
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Oh yeah that's right. God I suck.
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Squashing Machine posted:Also I'm in love with the rise of the term "lit-bro" surrounding the DFW adherents because each clickbait thinkpiece about the supposed phenomenon just screams "I'm insanely self-conscious about not being smart enough for DFW's writings so I'm going to turn not reading him into some sort of moral good" DFW said he liked to gently caress pussy so everyone hate him now
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I read the entire Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. Each book is 1000+ pages 
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