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Why do some fags here shit on DFW when pic related exists?

>> No.13387312

Because no one has read it.

DFW is old news though. The bigger question is why has /lit/ abandoned our patron saint Thomas Pynchon ?

>> No.13387339

>>13387312
Because Pynchon is gay, duh

>> No.13387342

>>13387312
This board isn't /lit/erature anymore, it's just teenagers arguing about meme philosophers

>> No.13387409

>>13387312
I don't think we've abandoned Pynchon. I think it's more that when new users join this board he is one of the first authors they read. So they probably spend about the next year or more trying to purchase and read Pynchon's entire body of work. So this in turn stimulates discussion of Pynchon for about a year while these users are reading Pynchon. But once they are done, the majority will probably never reread a Pynchon book again in the near future. So a large majority of the discussion then dies off. We still like Pynchon, it's just that not enough users are actively reading him or have read him recently enough to discuss his work.
>>13387342
This board has turned to shit once philosofags became a vocal majority. All the normal philosophers are too mainstream so they start pushing forgotten, marginal, and edgy/controversial left/right extreme philosophers to appear nonconformist.

>> No.13388047

>>13387309
>>13387312

Is there a point to reading it if it's not finished? Why would you read anything that's not finished?

>> No.13388097

>>13388047
Because people who arent autistic can appreciate art as it is presented and not as it was 'meant' to be presented. Kafka never finished his novels and they are still widely studied

>> No.13388263

>>13388047
if this isn't brainlet idk what is, boy

the book is written similar to IJ in its story structure, you will be following many different characters with certain passages glimmering high above holding their own as stand alone little short stories. Just read it, good writing doesn't need a complete story to round out or whatever bs

>> No.13388268

>Naming all your books with quotes from a better writer
cucked

>> No.13388304
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13388304

Is there a name for a book that was a drag reading it, where many times I had to pick up mid chapter again, and eventhough there were many palpable satisfying parts while reading it, the true greatness of the work only gets felt After one has finished reading it.
Because that is definetly what The Pale King was like. Now looking back I would recommend it to some, but while I was reading it I would have hesitated to do so. Similar experiences I had with Alfred Döblin - The three Leaps of Wang Lun, Dante - Divine Comedy, Hesse - Glass bead game.
This is rare though; some where I might expect such to occur, such as Moby Dick, Tolstoi, it did not.

>> No.13388729

>>13388268
Is Broom of the System a Wittgenstein quote?

>> No.13388767

>>13388304
>is there a name for a book that was a drag reading
a page-snapper?
a tour-de-force with a long slope and a short downhill end?
a page-skipper?

>> No.13388780

>>13388047
Even is DFW had another 10 years to work on it the book would be unfinished. He wanted the unfinished work to be published. The book is a slice of life about boredom and how people deal with it, there was never supposed to be some grand plot or conclusion. What makes it enjoyable and great is the writing, and how each chapter, each can be read in any order, tells part of a story in a bigger universe. Even if that's not your thing, then just read the big chapter (23?) As a novella and you'll get a full fulfilling story

>> No.13388820

>>13388780
It's § 22. It is my favorite so far. Though I prefer § 5 about Stecyk as a child.

>> No.13388824

>>13388820
§1 was the best.

>> No.13388839

>>13388780
well, he should have worked 20 years then

>> No.13388843

>>13388824
Taking the bait. Why do you like § 1? It was just a description of a field.

>> No.13388921

>>13388843
Not him but I think the first Chapter should have been the last chapter. It's beautiful and really sets a natural contrast to the mostly industrial descriptions of the midwest give throughout the novel

>> No.13388933

>>13388843
>It was a description of a field.
fixed