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I read this maybe 10 years ago and dont remember a lot of it. should I reread it this summer or move on to something different?

>Book is called the Infinite Jest
>Ends

what are some good academic paper topics for Infinite Jest (1996)?

As someone who spends 90% of his waking hours staring at a screen pic rel was a major reality check. I've wasted so much goddamn time on the internet. My brain is reduced to gold fish tier cognition. What should i read to cope?

Why did he make the most boring plotline the main plotline?

>first twenty pages is about an autistic guy spilling spaghetti at a college admissions interview followed by a guy getting neurotic over his weed habit

Why did people like this?

In your heart of hearts, you know I'm right.

so i'm re-reading this kino since i first read it 3 or 4 years ago. can i skip the parts with Hugh Steeply and Reme Marat that i found boring initially or are they mandatory for the full IJ experience?

I know the big emotional climax is supposed to be when Mario "saves" Barry Loach. But that doesn't count, Mario is retarded, an animal with almost no humanity. Salvation needs to come from God or other humans

can I skip the wardine chapter?

>book about tennis
>the author self-insert is a nationally ranked prodigy instead of a mediocre regional player
really makes you think

I started reading Infinite Jest in 2006 because they were selling the 10th anniversary reprint for $10. It was also the tail end of Arrested Development being on the air, and for some reason, I formed some link between the two in my head, e.g. I was picturing Michael Cera as Jim Troeltsch while reading IJ.

The two have nothing to do with each other (besides maybe being "postmodern" comedies), and I don't think that AD ever referenced IJ like other TV shows have, but I still think of one when I think of the other. What unrelated fictional works do you automatically associate with certain books?

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"I being this story by warning you, dear reader, that what you are about to become privy to is perhaps the most lurid, rancid, and alarming accounts of this 21st Century; and so, it begins on a hazy spring day, some fifteen years before, where we arrive in a room where two young men are acquiring carpet burns upon a floor in a carnal romp. They have been going at each other's anuses for quite some time now, edging their silken rupture to the point of absurdity. The penetrating objects increasing in size, used on the submissive one's ass, could alarm anyone with a sense of decency. Too late, it's happened. His anus horribly distended. Drooping to the floor, loose, open like an Elephant's trunk. He screamed in pain. Cut it, cut it! he cried, clawing at the red tentacle hanging out of him. Scissors are used. It's a jagged, nasty cut. He began to seize, bleeding from the missing portion of colon out his bottom. And, my God, remarkable, they both regarded the sight, as it was, and I swear to God, the distended anus began to shake as well. It began to move the way a grub would, creating a fecal-blood trail in its clumsy wake. The two gay lovers, after immediate emergency surgery on the bottom, would grow a fondness over this anus homunculus, often guffawing at the anus' various exploits—like its proclivity to fall from the ceiling onto the plate of an unsuspecting dinner guest, warm smiles and friendly eye rolls, "Oh, anus, up to its usual shenanigans," and the whole dinner party would roar with laughter. Yes, it did strengthen their relationship to have an animated distended anus around. So perhaps our tale isn't so sordid after all; perhaps it can show us where to find strength in even the most dire circumstances; perhaps we need to find the distended anus within ourselves as well, expel it, and let it enrich our lives."

What the fuck? Why are the plots in James' filmography so fucking autistic? What the fuck was DFW's fucking problem?

>WAAH WAAH MY MOTHER LOVED ME TOO MUCH, SHE RUINED ME MY CHILDHOOD WAS SOO HARD
FUCK DFW

avril/his actual mom did nothing wrong he's just a cunt

How many IQ points can I expect to gain after reading this?

I've started this book like 10 times by now and always drop it somewhere around 200 page mark. Why am I like this?

Is there any point to read this in Russian translation? Is there any good translation of this book at all?

Name a more overrated book, protip: you can't

I'm 37 pages into this after finally giving in and I like it so far but what the FUCK is this Wardine shit

Had DFW ever actually met a black person before????

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>dropped this doorstopper
>since started Dracula
>10x better

Hi. I have read Infinite Jest a long time ago, and I don't remember many parts of it, so I just want to ask you a question about it, please:

Did the people from Infinite Jest had cellphones? It doesn't need to be as ours nowadays, but just portable phones which you could use just to call someone else at anyplace

I thought this book would be fun. I read 45 pages in and I hate it. I don't know what I expected.