/lit/ - Literature

I'm currently reading junky and about to start IJ after I'm done. any prerequisites or mindset I need to have before going in?

>>10850829
thank you, o grand arbiter of taste on /lit/
i wasnt comparing it to any of them, but thanks for your superior advice. of course its not better than joyce (i dont give a single fuck about either of the others you mentioned but im sure you're right because you are always right).
but even though its not better than ulysses, its still #1 on /lit/ just for the memes and to make people mad

>>10850841
faust was great, moby dick was boring. but i appreciate the extra effort you put in at the end of your reply there.

>>10650346
i wholeheartedly agree with you. Like you said call me a fag but when I was getting towards the end I was sad cuz I knew I would probably never enjoy another book as much as I did IJ

>>9705373
i love IJ but this is honestly too funny.
have another dfw meme for your troubles

>>9690384
Read DFW

>>9657066
i didnt include the non-lit approved material cuz i figured id get assblasted over it.
just goes to show on /lit/ you get assblasted either way.
also moby dick, les mis, and IJ are all 1000 pages, so they should count as two each.
fight me if you disagree

>>9600807
shit i responded to myself haha
>>9600091
there we go, all better
plus ill throw on pic related for some DFW meme material

>>9449309
pic related

>>9443047
that part also threw me off. i have no idea about its relevance.
another part that threw me off was at the very end, the speaker at an AA meeting talking about not being allowed to see his kid. There was only like 20 pages left and i was just thinking "stop now! youre not gonna have enough time to wrap up the plot!"
little did i know...

also no one has posted this pic yet and i feel its necessary to a DFW thread

Goosebumps and Animorphs are the only real answers to this question

It seems plausible that he said it. It's the whole post-modern gen X writer thing that you take trash culture and elevate it.