/lit/ - Literature

Me either. FUBU for pampered, white academics who never had a real job.

Ive tried 2 times, never managed to get past a 200-300 pages. Really just cant hold my interest and I find the prose offputting.

>>17757326
How can you say you don't like it if you never gave it a chance?

I was basically Hal as a kid slumming it w junkies in New England so it hit pretty hard for me.
>>17757326
Imagine dropping the book just before it gets amazing.

>>17757326
Same shit here. I think got 100 or 150 pages in. Wallace's prose is boring as hell and the subject matter (if there was one) didn't interest me one bit.

Peter: ...but since we're all gonna die, there's one more secret I feel I have to share with you. I did not care for Infinite Jest.
Lois: What?
Peter: Did not care for Infinite Jest.
Chris: How can you even say that, Dad?
Peter: I didn't like it.
Lois: Peter, it's so good, it's like the perfect novel!
Peter: I - this is what everyone always says whenever i-
Chris: Hal Incandenza, Don Gately, I mean...you never see...ERIC CLIPPERTON!
Peter: I know, I, look- fine, fine, characters. Did not the book.
Brian: Why not?
Peter: Did n- couldn't get into it.
Lois: Explain yourself. What didn't you like about it?
Peter: It insists upon itself, Lois.
Lois: ...what?
Peter: It insists upon itself.
Lois: What does that even mean?
Chris: BECAUSE IT HAS A VALID POINT TO MAKE, IT'S INSISTENT!
Peter: It takes forever getting in, and you spend, you spend like six and half hundred pages, and then - you know I can't even get through, I can't even finish the novel, I've never even read any of the endnotes.
Chris: YOU'VE NEVER READ THE ENDNOTES?
Stewie: How can you say you don't like it if you haven't even given it a chance?
Lois: I agree with Stewie, it's not really fair.
Peter: That - I have tried on three separate occasions to get through it and I get to the scene where all the kids are hitting tennis balls everywhere-
Lois: Yes, Eschaton's a great scene, I love that scene
Chris: It's noted in every annal.
Peter: I have NO IDEA what the AFR is talking about, it's like they're speaking in a different language, that's why I lose interest and I don't w-
Lois: You know what Peter,
Chris: They're speaking in French!
Lois: The language they're speaking is a language of subtlety, something you don't understand.
Peter: I loved On the Road. That is my answer to that statement.
Lois: Exactly.
Peter: Well, there you go.
Lois: Whatever.
Chris: I like that book too.

>>17757194
I just finished it last night and I think it was one of the best books ever written.

It's okay.

>>17757194
Gave it a shot.
I found it very boring. The amount of time and effort it took to describe what little was happening was excrutiating, and I didn't feel like the book was developing a tone.

>>17758657
>>17757354
Sad to see people get filtered by the first 200

>>17757606
lol