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can he write woman characters?

>> No.15779946

Lenore is the only half-way rounded character in Broom.

>> No.15779990

why would i care about that?

>> No.15780002

>>15779928
> DFW is just a TV addict
All i know is i od'd on entertainment bout half way through infinite jest like a mother fucker man

>> No.15780007

>>15780002
>DFW is

>> No.15780141

>>15780002
real entertaining but deeply sad book isn't it

>> No.15780168

>>15780141
I found it rather funny, what did you find particularly sad, the incandenza family?

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>>15779928
>OH GOOOOD IM WROOOOOTING

>> No.15780268

>>15780168
relating to some of the drug addiction/stories, the Incandenza family yes, and many of Hal & Mario's interactions together really made me quite emotional. And for sure it is an incredibly hilarious, genuinely laugh out loud book at parts.

>> No.15780475

answer my question, is he good at writing women?

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>>15780007
Don’t remind me

>> No.15780513

>>15780475
He’s not good at writing, period.

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15780541

I think he wrote women very well, Lenore and Madam Psychosis stand out.

I just finished reading all DFW and feel empty now. I wish David was here to push me from a speeding van

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>>15779928
he's deaded. he cant write anything.

>> No.15780567

I think so

>> No.15780592

>>15779928
He can’t write male characters

>> No.15780597

>>15779928
can he write

>> No.15781064

what the hell is writing?

>> No.15781111
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15781111

>>15781064

>> No.15781162

>>15779928
Is he a med?

>> No.15781459

>>15779928
You can psychoanalyse his writing of women to fuck. Madame Psychosis is the manifestation of his idea of an idealised woman, Avril Incandenza is his literally his own mother. Doesn’t mean he can’t write women, but he does write them as seen from his own point of view, some people see this as inauthentic but I think it’s more egocentric. Besides everything he wrote was always founded on his experience.

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>>15779928

>> No.15782183

>>15780002
>>15780141
I have only read Good Old Neon. I watch almost zero TV in my life, will there be anything I miss when I eventually read IJ? I can watch a series or two if it helps me understand what he's getting at.

>> No.15782191

>>15781162
definitely looks like Iberian stock, probably with 1/4 Anglo mixed in

>> No.15782226

Read all his journalistic work and loved it, tried to read his fiction and it felt like a totally different person. It wasn't necessarily bad but I couldn't keep reading like I did with CTL

>> No.15782260

>>15782183
No. Just read it. TV is not a theme nor does it have anything really to do with the novel, it is just there to support the main theme.

>> No.15782263

>>15782226
>all of his journalistic work
Is there an archive or something where I can access all of them in one place?

>> No.15782297

>>15782260
Understood, and I will. Thank you for putting up with my autistic obsession with context

>> No.15782371

>>15779928
He can write characters who are compelling and fullfil their role within the novel in a convincing way while not seeming to just be a cheap literary device to get his novel from point a to point b regardless of weather they are an innie or an outie. But, the question is generally asking if one can write woman folk which fullfil a stereotype useful in the marketing of books to Woman, most such writers are quickly forgotten or fall into genre work.

>> No.15783494

bumping a DFDub bread

>> No.15783518

>>15781459
>Besides everything he wrote was always founded on his experience
this is every writer in history

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15783684

He's gone anon, you need to let him go and stop rewatching his interviews

>> No.15783736

>>15779928
Is he good at writing African-American characters?

>> No.15783758

>>15783736
he is good at writing characters, he rarely wrote stereotypes.

>> No.15784025

>>15783758

I mean that one chapter in IJ was basically ebonics

>> No.15784110

>>15784025
I know what you meant, and it is not basically ebonics or anything other than a character who is young, uneducated and high, it is not a representation of any culture, she is a created individual in an alternate future that never existed. Your questions and OPs are really just asking if he was good at writing stereotypes and pandering to the masses. His characters serve more to further the ideas of the novel than to represent any real world demographic of the 90s.

Also, has little resemblance to ebonics, might as well say english is basically german. Ebonics is far more complex than than Wardine be cry.