/lit/ - Literature

Is Pale King worth reading?

please stop with the generals
even moot thinks they're cancer

>lol this will rly steam that guy who had gud points about generals xD

>>6047218

this

4chan is not your fucking personal chatroom, gtfo with this shit

filtered

>>6047217
Definitely, especially if you wanted a more realistic feeling Infinite Jest

>>6047218
Just hide them if you are against them. What do you have against them? They seem to be popular here

>>6047226
4chan is my personal chat room though, there is no wrong way of using 4chan. I think its interesting to see board culture evolving like this

>>>/out/

>>6047241
Is the ending satisfyingly wrapped up, or is it just an abrupt end filled in by some notes he had lying around?

Just got Brief Interviews in the mail. I've only read a dozen pages or so but it seems really interesting so far. My first DFW book.

>>6047218
>>6047226
The thing is if generals didn't exist people would just get upset about the number of threads talking about the same thing. There doesn't need to be more than one thread about the same author. Generals are containment that's convenient for everybody.

The demise of the late David Foster Wallace has been greeted with an exaggerated outburst of chest-beating (often by writers whose own fictions stick doggedly to the well-worn pathways), but I can't help but feel that this has as much to do with his suicide as his prose. (After all, if, as Ballard said, "For a writer death is always a career move," then to be a felo de se is to exit dramatically, and pursued by bears.) No, the dominant school of fiction, still more so in Britain than in the States, remains character-driven and narrative ratcheted, and whatever the changing nature of its cast and content – the underclass of Irvine Welsh, the denizens of Rushdie's fables and those of other postcolonial Booker shoo-ins – it remains unperturbed by the idea that modernity simply cannot be accommodated in such securely cosy forms. To write "jolly good reads" with a beginning, a middle and an end – including almost mandatory redemption for a previously morally vacillating protagonist – is the very stuff of books, just as it's the stuff of life on this right, tight little island.

If I had the time and the space I'd expatiate on the fiendish parallels between this literary anachronism and the anachronism of our political system, and how the shadow play of our public life and the cardboard cut-out of our beloved fictions have an almost exact synchrony, but suffice it to note that the rather more enthusiastic embrace of so-called "postmodernism" by the British – in their shit architecture still more than their novels – represents, in my view, a determination to vault over all the quicksand of the 20th century, in order to gain the seemingly safer ground provided by a cut-and-paste job on the styles and modes that antedated it.

>>6047390
it almost works better if you just read it as if its a collection of short stories. Its would have been interesting to see where it went but its not really a book that really suffers being incomplete.

>>6048005
uh huh

>>6048071

That scene in the bar in TPK where the boring dude was talking to the attractive women was pretty good yo.

>>6048071

That scene in TPK where the boring dude was talking to the attractive women in the bar was pretty funny.

>>6048071

That scene in TPK where the boring dude was talking to the attractive women in the bar was pretty good.

Inherent vice is my favorite DFW novel

>>6049403

Please don't shitpost

>david forced meme-ace