/lit/ - Literature

>>8161254
I've got you senpai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

Post your best Jests

Also, absolutely lit related

>>6458325
>The sentence only lasts 5 lines

Honestly I identified with the anxiety/depression/addiction/alienation so intensly it was almost surreal. I couldn't believe DFW reached me as profoundly as he did. I have read J R and Gravity's Rainbow. Gaddis and Pynchon are better writers, but DFW just hit me on another level altogether. Certain points in GR and JR made me really think and sort of humorously sad, with highlights of desolation or hilarity. Infinite Jest balances bleak, soul-crushing despair with manic hilarity for most of it's 1100 pages and is entertaining in a way I know I can't begin to adequately describe.

I can understand why some people may not like him, but in my opinion this book us nothing short of wonderful. I have experience with many of it's themes and it was just uncannily close to home.

Also, I don't understand how people say this book wasn't inspired by Pynchon. The silly names, abbreviations everywhere, throwing out organizations and plot elements and world details with zero context or explanation for another hundred or two pages; seems pynchon-inspired to me.

I can understand why this book is a meme though. DFW himself, that one interview, this is water contrasted with his suicide, he fucking calls Hal's dad autistic and his mom patrician in the same page or so. Still, his post-hoc addition to the 2chainz forum memetic legacy shouldn't discount his ability.

>>6292625
Really?

>dfw more faggots mad at your book who haven't even tried to read it than any other author
>even Pincone

>>6224745
Go fuck yourself

This is now a DFW/doubles thread