/lit/ - Literature

I have the white one and it sucks. The edges are deckled, too.

rolling for three, baby!

bop

>>14495778
1 > 3 > 8

the rest are crap

>>14495808
>Not realizing that 5 is the best

>>14495778
Havent read it but I dont like any of these.
If i had to pick probably 8. 7 or 4, but i dont even really like those.

That's mine. Is there a meaning why they all have a cover with clouds right? I've read it last year tho, nice book.

>>14495778
Need 8 NEED 8

>>14495814
its terrible sorry

>>14495822
What's wrong with you thumbs

>>14495822
lmao look at this nigga thumbs

>>14495778
/THREAD

>>14496107
by jove...

>>14496107
/thread indeed

>>14495778

>>14495778
La broma infinita of course. Spichads win again

>>14495778
I like 3 best, but then my graphic designer wife told me to get 8 cause it looked better and I figured she would know and then I remembered an interview with DFW where he said he didn’t like the cover they picked but I didn’t know which one he was talking about but I felt like it was the one I liked so I got 8 because I left my first copy on a plane and wanted to read it again but 8 turns out to have those fucking ripples like page end things so you can’t flip the pages fast and I was like what the fuck I NEED to go back and forth for like the footnotes and I don’t even LIKE this cover I should’ve just gotten the one with the clouds cause that one is my favorite, even though my wife’s a professional it’s MY BOOK she never even read it
Plus I never figured out why with the clouds is it from CTs wall paper? That’s what I thought but now I can’t be sure because I never finished my rereading of it because of the fucking rippled pages

Tl;dr 3

brazilian portuguese edition

>>14496303
tl;dr you is a cu ck

I got no. 4 brand new and it has the most pungent smell I've ever smelt from a book. It stinks out my entire book cupboard.

>>14496331
Wash it

>>14496314
you is lonely :(

>>14496312
>title is in the pages
absolutely D I S G U S T I N G

>>14496416
FOUND THE TURBOPLEB

>>14495778
I like 2 the most because I like late 90's graphic design

>>14495778
3>4>5>1>8>2>6>7

>>14495778
i have 8 and its pretty garbage. my sister crushed an engorged tick on its cover and it has bits of blood on it that i can't get off

3 the kino classic

Third is the only good one

I don’t own Infinite Jest yet but 8 looks more aesthetically pleasing

>>14495778
3>2>4
The cloud across the sky feels instantly American, the title also really sells the postmodern aspect. Close to perfect cover.

>>14495778
3 easily

>>14495778
I have 3, because it's the cheapest, but I also like its simplicity and how it creases after being read through. 4, 5 and 7 look really ugly imo.

Where’s the post-it note one?

>>14496416
Brazilian publishers have to use all kinds of tricks and gimmicks to get illiterate monkeys into reading lmao

>>14496694
>The cloud across the sky feels instantly American
Yes, because as we know, US of America is the only country with clouds.

>>14498034
He's referring to the fly-over states where you can see blue skies and clouds to the horizon because it's all a massive plain.

>>14498040
And you can only do this there? Not sure I follow.

>>14498042
He said it felt American, not uniquely American.

What do I read before Infinite Jest? Hamlet, The Odyssey, what else?

>>14498062
That's what I'm doing before I crack it. The Iliad, odyssey, and hamlet. I'd say at the very least Hamlet because the family dynamic is near identical, the first line is also a response to Hamlet's.

>>14498062
oh, also some Pynchon and Delillo, just so you know what he's rebelling against.

>>14498089
What *was* he rebelling against?

Is t this what he wanted it to be?

>>14498042
God damn you must be fun at parties

>>14498062
Read the spark notes for Ulysses- not absolutely necessary but there are references you’ll get

>>14498091
The postmodern irony, Pynchon wrote with flat humor and satirized more than anything else in his work. Dfw thought these writers lacked heart, or "authenticity", when in fact he just wanted sentimentality. Wallace was overly sentimental and thought books that weren't were inauthentic, and unemotional.

4

>>14495778
I have the 4th edition and it sucks. The book and the cover suck. Awful.

>>14496010
Bruhhhh

>>14495778

yes my nose is actually that big that it allows me to balance the book on my face in this way

>>14495778

yes my nose is actually that big that it allows me to balance the book on my face in this way

>>14495822
>Is there a meaning why they all have a cover with clouds
It's spelled out in the book, did you speed read it? It's like a title drop, how do you forget that?

>>14496107
Would you play it, /lit/?

3!

>>14496107
Reminder that this was an entry in an official competition and lost to fucking 8 in the OP.

>>14498383

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water", - Hal Incandenza

>>14498403
8 is actually good too it's just the ruffled pages of the edition that suck

>>14498420
It's not bad but it's not as good as any in the top row except for maybe 1. Meanwhile the cassette is the best ever conceived.

>>14498383
>>14498417
>perhaps the real Infinite Jest was the clouds we watched along the way.

3 is great, so is 1.

On a related note, the first print cover of The Pale King is one of my favorite book covers, shame they slathered later printings with fancy typography and accolades.

>>14498479
I'd have to agree with you anon, that's a cool cover. Do they still sell this edition?

Next question, which Gravity's rainbow cover is your favorite?

I’ve seen this book so many god damn times on here. Please someone explain the appeal? never read it

>>14498512
You can find it secondhand, that's how I got my copy. I got mine off of ThriftBooks for like 5$, but they will just send whatever printing they have (to a certain degree, you can select an edition and hope you get the right cover). But also check used book stores, etc.

>>14498636
I've noticed that problem with ThriftBooks as well.

>>14498527

>>14495822
are you a cartoon?

>>14498531

reality is corporate dystopia, mental illness, addiction, drugs, suicide, the allure of entertainment, success, talent, isolation, we are all trapped inside our own skulls, hamlet, brothers, mothers, father, death, tennis, the oedipus complex, film, no single moment is in and of itself unendurable, masks, wheelchairs, american identity, the impossibility of really ever knowing anyone, narcissism, the horror of solipsism, humility, sincerity, connection, intelligence, pseudo-intelligence, limits and infinity, anxiety, analysis paralysis, AA, sex, control, manipulation, environmental waste, competition, celebrity, annulation, incest, freedom, choice, attention, boredom, egotism, the pursuit of happiness, advertising, information, stasis, faith, complexity, one never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one

>>14498664

UOLLACE

>>14495778

I like 3 the most. This is the image that I remember when I was 19

>>14498663
Fuck yeah

>>14495778
They’re all kind of shit, desu.

>>14495778
All of them are eyesores except the third from top left, I see why it's the most famous one...

>>14495778
8>1>3>4>5>6>2
give me 8

1> 4 > 3 > 2 > 7 > 5 > 8 > 6

>>14495778
Recently bought 8 but how shit is 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7

>>14498664
Уoллec

>>14498527
Frank Miller did a good job with this one honestly. >>14496107
Also yeah /thread.

>>14498062
>>14498078
Anatomy of Melancholy

>>14498383
I said I've read it last year and I don't remember. Don't be so bitter anon.
>>14498664
Kino.
>>14498675
Yes.

>>14496312
the worst edition of IJ I ever saw
Ridiculously big and without flap

>>14496303
>my graphic designer wife
Has terrible taste and probably thinks Keith Haring is “hip”

>>14498527
これだ

>>14502132
>Keith Haring
As much as my wife’s tastes and mine might differ I can’t think of a single human I respect who admires Keith Harings work unless it’s in the context of best buddies- all the designers I know are typically obsessed with this Japanese-ish ultra saturated HD styleless vibe- do you live in 1989?

>>14502263
So that's where my butt-plug ended up. A ninja must have stolen it while I slept.

>>14496107
tacky

>>14495778
I want to read this book but I hate the covers. It's retarded but covers really effect my enjoyability. If it's not aesthetically pleasing I can't. 2 and 5 are the only good ones

>>14496267
terribly underrated cover

>>14496107
Jfc that’s terrible