/lit/ - Literature

I assume 85% of the people who'll respond to this thread have not even read that book (tomb), so you'll not get a meaningful answer.

it was my favorite book my senior year of high school immediately after reading it. i still consider it bretty gud but it honestly just pales compared to some of its predecessors (the works of pynchon, mccarthy, barth etc)

>>12697513
It’ll be easy weeding out the wheat from the chaff, I understand the amount of replies will be summary readers. Thanks for the heads up anyway!

>>12697523
I’m assuming this wasn’t a class reading, how long did it take you to read and what was your favorite “part” of the book?

It's just a funny, "deep" book that makes you >feel, and is also sort of daring/experimental.
It's also most 4chan-esque book i've ever read (aside from A Confderacy of Dunces).

>>12697513
>>12697524
Both of you need to fucking kill yourselves and then fuck off back to you know where! :)

>>12697513
Do you mean tome?

>>12697504
It's not released in my native language and i'm not THAT good at English to completely understand material.

>>12697523
>it was my favorite book my senior year of high school

Is pic related you anon?

>>12697536
i'm a pretty slow reader, i got through it in roughly two months. as much as i appreciate the more serious/sincere aspects of the novel, my favorite bits are still the little comedic details (the wheelchair assassins, the great concave/convex etc) also the famous weed chapter always hit a little too close to home.

Why did he kill himself bros?

>>12697614
Because he read his own book.

>>12697602
nah, but close enough.

>>12697504
I unironically enjoyed the cetology chapters of Moby-Dick and the Waterloo chapters of Les Miserables.

But I absolutely fucking despise the endnotes gimmick. I thoroughly enjoyed The Broom of the System, though, as well as his essay on television and irony. So I still like him as an author even if I'm a contrarian about his magnum opus.
>>12697614
Lifelong depression and developing an immunity to his anti-depressants.

>>12697635
did he ever mention when did his depression start?

>>12697642
At least as far back as his college days when he was addicted to drugs and shoved Mary Karr out of a moving car.

>>12697504
Just by looking at his face you can tell that he is a hack and most likely a sexual predator. Thats my reasoning not reading Infinite jest

>>12697602
>4 if you count I read IJ twice

>>12697504
I'm about halfway through it. Love it so far.
Favorite part = the game of eschaton
Favorite character = Eric Clipperton
Favorite James Incandenza Film = The Medusa vs. The Odalisque.

He's the Joe Rogan of literature. Full stop.

>>12697711
author must be attractive and charming to have something to say. attractive & charismatic people have an experience of reality worth reading about

>>12697602
this never happened

>>12697857
T.me/v200000