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If Infinite Jest is my favourite novel, what would you recommend me so that I can stop being a pleb?

>> No.13316318

>>13316304
it isn't a bad book. it sounds like you like literary maximalism. try palinuro de mexico

>> No.13316339

>>13316304
Depends.

Want to seem slightly smarter at imaginary new york socialite events you will never go to? JR.

Want to read something cooler than IJ?
Master and Margarita.

Want to read something better than IJ?
Dead Souls.

>> No.13316546

Lord Jim

>> No.13316981

>>13316339
Wrong thread to use acronyms.

>> No.13317007

>>13316981
The Gaddis novel is literally called J.R.

>> No.13317008

I don't know what semi-ironic self conscious faggotry you're looking for input on but one of my other favorite books is cryptonomicon.

>> No.13317303
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>>13316981
lmao imagine actually being this retarded

OP you should read The Recognitions over JR. Also A Naked Singularity and The Nix (though The Nix is sort of for dummies)

>> No.13318394

Gravity’s Rainbow

I know it’s lumped in as a meme book, but that book is genuinely the shut. Funny, heartbreaking, annoying, smelly, gross, brilliant, retarded...it’s got it all

>> No.13318439

>>13316304
Read the more advanced pomo authors like Pynchon, Gaddis, Gass, Norman Mailer and Joseph McElroy.

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>>13316304
Shitloads of murder mysteries

>> No.13320631

>>13316304
Catch-22?

Read Catch 22

>> No.13321305

>>13316304

try thank you for eating burgers by us

>> No.13321319

>>13316304
suicide