/lit/ - Literature

My taste in literature is generally straightforward. I Hemingway and Steinbeck and Nabokov and others who are mentioned in that vein. I tried reading Gravity's Rainbow at one point, and I recognized a sort of charm in it, but otherwise it made me feel too lost and I dropped it about 60 pages in.

That all being said, is it a waste of time for somebody like me to try to tackle this one? I don't care if you call me a pleb, I can say with confidence that I'm a more well rounded individual than any of you, I'm just curious about whether or not I should spend my money on this.

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>A man of average intelligence masturbates.

Is Infinity Jest hard to read?

By hard to read I mean: is it The Sound And The Fury Quentin Section Tier?

I want her to pull on my balls and bash my head in with a book. Preferably this one.

When does this book get humorous? I'm 5 chapters in and with the exception of the spastic tennis guy at the start and the mother running around yelling "Help! My child ate this!", nothing funny has happened yet alone something infinitely funny. Will this book get funny or is the title ironic? I hope it's not ironic because this guy is all about being sincere, correct?

So, was Orin the mastermind all along?

>you didn't just describe this

Welp, just finished IJ.

What should I read next /lit/? Looking to dive back into classics, maybe Picture of Dorian Gray?

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>>9409380

If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be their favorite book?

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Is this book the essential fit-lit?

>getting clean
>training for tennis
>tall protagonists
>pro-natty morals

Favorite book, favorite album, and how you feel

>If I have a real enemy, a patriarch for my patricide, it’s probably Barth and Coover and Burroughs, even Nabokov and Pynchon.

I'm from /s4s/ and would like to say this is a bad book.

should i read this?

If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be their favorite book?

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ITT: books no one has read

>>9101523

/lit/ memed me into reading this. I have a question though: aren't people who use the three bookmark method complete pseuds?

Like, before I read the book, I heard that the preferred method of reading it was three bookmarks, one for where you are in main text, one for footnotes, and one for page 223. But now that I'm passed page 223, it seems like that's just an excuse for someone to cram another bookmark into their Infinite Jest to make it seem like a special, life-changingly unique novel. DFW already expects you to remember a ton of little details, is it really that hard to just read the years and remember their order?

>>9074162
wasnt a hard choice at all

Whoops

>>9066342
OP is secretly autistic: the novella

>yfw Mario saves Barry Loach's soul and by doing so, saves our own souls too
Wallace you god damn genius