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Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:24:23 2013 No.3553202 [Reply] [Original]

How does /lit/ feel about David Foster Wallace? I just finished Infinite Jest a few days ago, was intimidating at first but once the characters started connecting and everything came together I was entranced and found it hard to stop reading. Any other DFW fans here?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:26:22 2013 No.3553209 if lit had a meme like mu has ITAOTS it would be Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:26:22 2013 No.3553212 File: 82 KB, 500x500, Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - 1998.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3553209

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:26:22 2013 No.3553208 >>3553202 Every god damn day there's a DFW thread. Every god damn day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:28:22 2013 No.3553216 >>3553209 you know, the more I think about it, the more I agree with this. people who think they know music like that album, and people who think they know literature like this book, except neither really know anything

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:35:22 2013 No.3553237 >>3553216 Except ITAOTS is actually brilliant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:35:22 2013 No.3553241 >>3553216 Except Infinite Jest is actually brilliant

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:36:22 2013 No.3553245 >>3553237 >>3553241 jinx

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:39:22 2013 No.3553256 ITAOTS is babby's first lel so indie album. Infinite Jest is babby's first lel so deep book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:40:22 2013 No.3553260 >>3553256 not really IJ doesn't pretend to be deep, it's very low brow, middle brow at best. i would say the stranger or 1984 are babbys first 2deep4u

Petulant Child !IpF9wBJQqI Mon Mar 11 23:44:22 2013 No.3553272

the worst part about both works is the edgy hatred of them both. The people hating them hate them because they're popular in this subculture, not because they're bad. It's the sub-pop and some people will do/say anything to differentiate themselves from pop. They're both pretty great works and stand out as among the best of their years or perhaps even decades of release.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:44:22 2013 No.3553274 File: 11 KB, 173x264, The Most Interesting Man in the World gazes into your soul.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3553256 >ITAOTS is babby's first lel so indie album. Stay edgy my friends

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:45:22 2013 No.3553276 >>3553272 Actually I hate them because they are both popular and bad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:47:22 2013 No.3553280 >>3553260 except that the stranger and 1984 aren't deep at all or subtle or good

Petulant Child !IpF9wBJQqI Mon Mar 11 23:47:23 2013 No.3553282

>>3553276
well obviously that's subjective

I'm confident you like shitty bullshit of lower quality than either. Whether it's that you secretly still love Dookie or The White Stripes, or you like Neil Gaiman or Tolkein, I'm sure you like something with less worth as a work of art than either.

>>	Petulant Child !IpF9wBJQqI Mon Mar 11 23:48:23 2013 No.3553291 >>3553280 the stranger is totally babby's first deep novel 1984 obviously has nothing below the surface, but the Stranger is literally all (nearly surface level) interpretation

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:49:22 2013 No.3553294

>>3553202

ah, the daily "What does everyone on /lit/ think of DFW as if I didn't already know but had never read it before so I couldn't participate in all of the discussions and now that I have read it I want to finally talk about how much I like it" thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 23:56:23 2013 No.3553314 >>3553282 I listen to spectralist music and read surrealist poetry, I think I know what I'm talking about

>>	Petulant Child !IpF9wBJQqI Tue Mar 12 00:01:22 2013 No.3553337 >>3553314 well as someone who only listens to Onykokei and can only tolerate asemic poetry i think i know what i'm talking about when i say you're a plen

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 00:07:22 2013 No.3553358 Where should I start with DFW?

>>	Petulant Child !IpF9wBJQqI Tue Mar 12 00:11:23 2013 No.3553367 >>3553358 Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 00:11:23 2013 No.3553368 >>3553337 welp that puts you like 20 years ahead of me, i'm screwed

Anonymous Tue Mar 12 00:20:23 2013 No.3553401

I don't understand his writing style.

He rambles on and on about nothingness in an exasperated way.

Like here's DFW summed up...

I WAS STANDING NEAR THE HOT DOG STAND, WHICH HAD A FUNNY CARTOON DOG ON IT, THE KIND YOU SEE IN THOSE REALLY OLD CARTOONS YOUR PARENTS MADE YOU WATCH, BUT YOU DIDN'T ENJOY WATCHING, BUT DID ANYWAYS SO YOUR LITTLE SISTER WOULD BE QUIET, INSTEAD OF SCREAMING ALL NIGHT ABOUT HER DOLL COLLECTION, AND MAKING FLAGRANT ACCUSATIONS ABOUT HOW YOU STOLE HER PRETTY PRINCESS POLLY DOLLY IN 1994, THE YEAR WHEN GRUNGE WAS ALSO DEAD, BUT NOT QUITE-

He just goes on and on, it's fucking hard to read, man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 00:21:23 2013 No.3553403 >>3553337 shut up you faggot nobody actually listens to onkyokei

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 00:21:23 2013 No.3553407 >>3553401 spot on lol

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