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Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:13:42 2018 No.12321584 [Reply] [Original]

What's your favorite story or section of this book?
My favorite was the one where the dad pulls his dick out in front of his son.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:18:16 2018 No.12321607 Depression porn Wallace of Brief Interviews was the worst Wallace.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:33:54 2018 No.12321658 Everybody says that IJ is Wallace at peak psued, but I honestly believe this book takes the cake in that regard. At least IJ has some literary merit, this book is just a catastrophe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:36:54 2018 No.12321670 There's a couple parts where I think the novel shines but a lot of it is terrible. The two rape stories and the one about dating someone with depression we're pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:38:34 2018 No.12321681 >>12321584 I just finished this book and thought the 2nd to last story was a great ending, I dident understand the last 2 page story though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:39:28 2018 No.12321687 >>12321584 Whole thing is just Wallace feeling guilty for abusing his gf. Good book desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:40:37 2018 No.12321696 in all seriousness, this was basically 4chan: the book back when this site first started. David was even still alive back then. It's basically just a bunch of portraits of /robots/ and chads mixed in with some meta stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 22:42:40 2018 No.12321704 This was his best book. "Good old neon" was the shitty distillation of this book's themes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:08:37 2018 No.12321804 What else would you recommend? This is the only thing I read by him. I enjoyed the interviews and some of the stories but some of it was shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:15:10 2018 No.12321833 File: 235 KB, 750x747, DC636910-19F0-4E8D-82E9-D0D0BA7847B6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12321704 >Good Old Neon >shitty

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:18:27 2018 No.12321842 >>12321804 His essays are legitimately worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 31 23:22:58 2018 No.12321868 >>12321704 >>12321833 >Good Old Neon >Not in Oblivion wrong book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:32:04 2019 No.12322087 I hated forever overhead so much that I dropped the book

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 00:42:42 2019 No.12322121 His worst book bar none. I honestly believe that aside from IJ, dfw didnt hit greatness until the millenia, consider the lobster and oblivion are both leagues better than anything else he did excluding IJ

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:26:59 2019 No.12322430 I liked Tri-Stan, very vaporwave and technically impressive

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 02:30:02 2019 No.12322435 >>12322430 >technically impressive Not a common compliment when it comes to DFW's work. Care to expound upon why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 03:05:54 2019 No.12322516 >>12321584 Please name the titles of the short stories worth reading, not just 'the one with rape'. Which ones should I read before dumping the book? Starting from the beginning it's just shit.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 03:50:26 2019 No.12322610
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>>12321584
Forever Overhead is really engaging. Honestly that short story is pure Wallace; an extremely potent distillation of life's minutiae. Wallace also displays his knack for imagery ( I especially loved his description of the late afternoon horizon).

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 06:10:24 2019 No.12322937

>>12322435
References to Greek myths and Tristan and Isolde, dense and highly stylized prose. Reminded me of some Nick Land quotes. I don't know if "technically impressive" is the right thing to say but it's the first thing that occurred to me.

Unrelated: if you're into vaporwave, the story has Greek stuff, neon, palm trees, TV... very aesthetic.

Anonymous Tue Jan 1 09:55:20 2019 No.12323419

>>12321584
My favorite would probably be Adult World (I and II) for their experimentation in form and also Tri-Stan for its clever references and word-play that show off Wallace's wit. Least favorite would be the one about the dying father talking to the playwright, I think it's too rambling and unbelievable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 10:03:31 2019 No.12323433 >>12322087 Forever Overhead? The one about a guy whose daughter was suffocated?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 10:11:33 2019 No.12323448 >>12321584 'The devil is a busy man' is great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 10:30:58 2019 No.12323513 >>12323433 Forever Overhead is the one about the boy about to jump off the diving board. He wrote this one in his early 20s before any of his other published work actually.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 11:03:32 2019 No.12323648 >>12323513 But it's a great and a rather simple story, what's not to like about it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 12:37:55 2019 No.12324099 >>12321868 Read the posts again chief

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 1 13:45:01 2019 No.12324437 >>12321584 The one that reads like vaporwave, I can't remember the name

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