/lit/ - Literature

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inclined to agree- although it's almost the only style I can read now

IJ is genuinely just like TV- the medium DFW reacted against ironically- doesn't mean it isn't fun but much of his writing is ugly, or cringeworthy

Pynchon is a brilliant writer. Still, in terms of substance there are ofc serious messages etc. but it doesn't boil doing to much beyond existentialism or the level of ideas conveyed in a Wallace Stevens poem like Sunday Morning

Gaddis' J R breaks your definition though

there are so many problems with large books for the sake of it- but honestly they are the most fun if you read consistently and quickly- who wants to be done with a book in like a week

I think its sad what maximalism has done to reading though / ofc tech. has affected how much people read but books sales are still relatively decent; pop lit has retreated away from experimentation in reaction to tomes like Ulysses or GV; why bother writing something that is experimental if youll only write a 'lite' version of any of the giants from the postmodern canon

p.s. The Recognitions is shit, even Gaddis says so