/lit/ - Literature

that's the point. that's why its art and will be remembered.

>>2222065
Art's imploded. ( ._.)

Zettels Traum is awkward to read. Finnegans Wake is awkward to read. Petersburg is awkward to read. The cantos are awkward to read.

This is not.

>>2222062

The lack of flow isn't a problem. The endless repetition is a fucking problem. Fuck Infinite Jest.

Oblivion: Stories is win.

how long does it take to read this

Bad prose.

>>2222095
Also, none of these books are awkward to read. They're just difficult to comprehend.

reminder: sunhawk thinks house of leaves is good

>>2222096

>is win

Please quietly end your own life.

>>2222156

You don't like Oblivion: Stories?

>>2222062
I like his prose.

I love the way the book flows. The only problem I saw was the fact that the whole thing is a vocabulary test.

>>2222234
That is what I am looking forward to. I read a couple of pages of a friends copy and salavated at the opportunity to read with the dictionary. But that is for next year.

>>2222234
Because of this book I describe everything I do after dinner as "post-prandial"

Fuck those SAT novels, this shit will turn you into a wordsmith in two months.

>>2222249
salivated.

Also why don't you just read the dictionary. A page a day.

Optimize your fun.

>>2222249
I read it on a kindle

>>2222257
FOOOOOOOT!!!

>>2222257
That is one happy girl.

>>2222257
Please... I have a two volume dictionary.

>>2222259
>implying I don't do this already.
It is all about context.

I enjoyed IJ a lot. To anyone who hasn't read it, give it a shot. I can totally understand it not being everyone's cup of tea, but I'd be hard pressed to find someone who at least got through 200 pages and didn't find something to like.

You will be surprised at how accessible it actually is.

>>2222105
This, pretty much.

DFW wrote every line going, "is this okay? Is this okay? Is this okay? Oh, God, I hope this is okay."

He was far more concerned with being taken seriously than he was with writing. For that, his work reads like that of a precocious teenager who wants to be, above all else, in the canon.

Wannabe writers usually outgrow this phaze by 30 or so.

>>2222508

the only things you've ever outgrown are waistbands

>>2222412
Nobody is saying it's inaccessible. Well, maybe a few 'tards on this thread. But, OP is talking about the awkward, disjointed, and needlessly boring prose.

>>2222517
DFW fanbois are the most laughable of all 4chan's white knights.

>>2222535

it's just fun, dude, sorry you don't like a fun thing

>>2222539

Fun is just a buzzword people use when they can't find anything good to say about something.

>>2222542

okay plankton

>>2222535

I thought the prose was at times boring, at times mind blowingly good. DFW did have a couple tics I hated... "and but so", etc. and I hated when he said "like" like a teenage girl. It seemed like a feeble attempt to come off as less pretentious and excessively learned.

>>2222892

there is absolutely nothing wrong with the use of like as a modifier and i will defend it to the grave

>>2222542
>Fun is just a buzzword
Get a life.

>>2222892
>I hated... "and but so", etc. and I hated when he said "like" like a teenage girl.
I liked "and but so" and hated "like", but it was more *when* he used "like". It was always at the wrong time, rhythmically. I don't know, it threw me off.

>>2222944