/lit/ - Literature

>>7549368
worst book ever mate like LOL how can you die from watching a movie??

makes no sense, downvoted

>>7549368
Best book ever made like LOL how can you not like reading an encyclopedia??

Makes complete sense, upboated

>>7549368
it was certainly a book, like, it contained all of its pages

makes sense I guess, sail on OP

>"Infinite" Jest
>Ends

fuck you dfw i want my money back

>>7549368
Please stop degrading this board.

>>7549368

silly dumb, DFWposter scum

>>7549368
who else /hatesOrin/ here

>>7549430
The true concept of infinite is something that at its end it goes back to its beginning, the snake that eats its own tail &c. Not something that goes on for an unlimited amount of time.

>>7549368
The sequel to The Neverending Story...kinda sucked

>>7549515

>>7549522
At least the shitposters have the potential to sparkle discussion through disagreement. It's better than having a circle jerk website where everyone says the same thing over and over.

>>7549492
why would you hate Orin though.

:(

>>7549515
that's something cyclic, which could be interpreted as infinite, but the definition of infinite is something without end.

>>7549594
Bc he stole the Entertainment and gave it to AFR. And this caused the overthrow of ONAN, leading to the end of subsidized time and the victory of the Quebecois

>>7549792
but they tortured him
and he stole it for other reasons
he was just a poor qt3.14 depressed incandescent boy, please no hate

>>7549813
LOL at incandescent
I agree with you.

>>7549965
I'm I the only one who hated Avril?

>>7551489
she's really fucked up and a bad mom / person

would JOI have lost it as much as he did if she wasn't fucking every canadian she came across?

>>7551489
I also hate her. She can fuck off back to Quebec with CT, postal weight and the French teacher fuck.

Btw, I loved the scene where Joelle is having dinner with the family and everybody is so fucking weird, lmao.

>>7551489
I only hated her after she rekt Pemulis

>>7549430

Is The Simpsons the real Infinite Jest?

>>7552012
lmao the fucking kid playing with dentures, Schacht or Troelesch, and Hal just being a little faggot the entire time

>Himself was my favourite character
>barely even directly in the story
>Carl Friedrich Gauss turned Terrence Malick

>>7552057
??? uh bro himself was the narrator

>>7549368
What a bad cover.

>>7552064
himself being the narrator is actually oen of the dumber theories, it makes sense in theory but youre actually apply a fantastical idea to cover what is really intended to be a meta concept and therefore youre kinda missing the point possibly

>>7552077
OH okay!!!!!

>predicted netflix
how he do this

Can someone explain how exactly the book is supposed to by cyclic? I didn't pick up on that.

>>7552118
did you read it

>>7552123
Yes. If it starts with hal in the office and gately face down in the ocean, how is that cyclic? Not being troll I seriously didn't see it. I had enough trouble keeping up with my fucking dictionary and the footnotes, I didn't really get to ponder the novel as I read

>>7552118
The joke is that the very beginning is the "end of the plot", so once you finish the 900 something pages you gotta go back. Also, unless you took lots of notes or used references as you read, it's very hard to understand the entire plot just by reading it once

>>7552129
Oh, chronologically the opening occurs the latest. Yeah, I figured as much about the second reading, but damned if I have another few dozen hours to go through it again any time soon.

>>7549368

Is this the most autistic book ever written?

gately put tooth-brush in butt, hal gets the dmz from a tooth brush
cyclical.
is all very abstract and "converges just out of frame"

>>7552138
The plot itself is not cyclic though. It's just extremely sparsed out among encyclopedic descriptions of random things that contribute indirectly to what DFW was trying to convey, that humans are being amused to death, that our addictions remove our human component and at the same time are what make us human, and that life in America is one big Entertainment. We always gotta be entertained by something.
I'm not gonna spoil the plot but a good amount of events that *make* the plot are extremely subtle.

>>7549536
>sparkle
>le

>>7549728
Does a circle have a beginning, anon?

Unless you took impeccable notes, there's actually lots of minor mysteries to resolve that demand you to read the book over and over again to pick up on them. The book is "cyclical" in that the end in the beginning and you probably have to read it twice to pick up on everything, but also in that, like the characters who watch the fatal film, you may feel compelled to read it over and over again, to pick up things you missed.