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What made the book so good?

>> No.13715396

I'm just about to hit page 700 on my first read through lads.
I didn't understand the rules of Eschaton at all.

>> No.13715401

>>13715379
The endnotes

>> No.13715426

>>13715379
>likeable characters
>plot constantly jumping between characters
>attention to detail
>that ending
it's a 9/10 - the pale king is still better tbqh

>> No.13715463

>>13715396

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I

>> No.13715814

>>13715379
Antidepressants

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>>13715426
>likable characters
Gately? Most of his humanizing anecdotes were cribbed from an AA guy DFW knew. Without credit. When he was told about it, he had no idea.

>detail
You mean the endless and artless name dropping of concepts and things? Or do you have an example?

>ending
What when Gately, John Wayne & Hal travel to the Great Concavity to check JOI's head for the anti-tape, and the genius Hal somehow forgot that his dad MICROWAVED his head for a reason? Or did DFW make a mistake?

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>>13715396
Just read End Zone by DeLillo. Eschaton will make more sense & you'll understand ENDLESS FUN and its engineer better.

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>>13715463
Dumb video, dumb song

>> No.13715953

>>13715864
>What when Gately, John Wayne & Hal travel to the Great Concavity to check JOI's head for the anti-tape, and the genius Hal somehow forgot that his dad MICROWAVED his head for a reason? Or did DFW make a mistake?
based illiterate

>> No.13715961

https://youtu.be/BcGr7XVlIEs

>> No.13715963

Eternal beauty. The touch of human blessedness. Redemption. The love of the world.

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>>13715953
The chronological end =^)

Or did you mean that awful part at the back of the book where Gately wakes up on a beach? Or did you mean before that when he is refusing painkillers from the coolie doctor? Or did you skim the whole book...?

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>>13715963
Beauty? Where? Human blessedness? Where?

>> No.13715985

>>13715980
In well written works of sublime artistry.

>> No.13715990

Pretty clouds

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>>13715961
Fucking yuck.

DELET

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>>13715985
There is art in 1/10th of IJ.

Show me on the book where he touched you with his sublime.

>> No.13716016

>>13716012
Oh I wasn't even talking about DFW. Fuck him.

>> No.13716030

>>13716016
GET OUT

>> No.13716046

Pemulis

>> No.13717199

>>13715864
>What when Gately, John Wayne & Hal travel to the Great Concavity to check JOI's head for the anti-tape, and the genius Hal somehow forgot that his dad MICROWAVED his head for a reason? Or did DFW make a mistake?
The moms assassinated him and staged the microwave suicide to avoid suspicion.

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bump

>> No.13717818

>>13715379
Why did I instantly think about IJ after seeing picrelated?

>> No.13718560

>>13717818
Pavlov