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Is this the deepest book ever? I've read it over fifty times and haven't even begun to scratch the surface. It's literally amazing.

>> No.16929897

>>16929872
/lit/ be cry

>> No.16929937

>>16929872
Why would you read it more than once? DFW's writing style is such that he explains every single aspect of every single object (plot events, characters, settings, philosophical musings, etc.) in the book exhaustively. It's written such that you can read through it once and get everything out of it. Could you re-read it just because you enjoy it? Absolutely. But I doubt I'd get any more "insights" by reading it a second time

>> No.16929952

>>16929937
I guess you didn't scratch the surface-level meaning, huh? Midwit.

>> No.16929960

>>16929952
>midwit
midwit

>> No.16929967

There is a reason it's not called Finite Jest

>> No.16929973

finnegan's wake probably

>> No.16929979

>>16929967
>name the title of your book something from Brother Speare
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

>> No.16929990

>>16929979
latin quotations at the start of all your chapters

>> No.16930838

>>16929960
>no u
no u

>> No.16931179

>>16929937
who was the figure in the bleachers in the snow

what happened to the dmz

what happened with hal, gately and john wayne at himself's grave

>> No.16931393

>>16931179
lmao don't give a fuck

>> No.16931465

>>16929937
a lot of stuff is introduced before being fully explained later, rereading with that fore-knowledge would probably give a decent amount of new info. i'm a slow reader and have too much new shit i want to read to bother re-reading a 1000 page book just for that tho

>> No.16931467

>>16929872
It's a pretty depressing book if you have an addiction.

>> No.16931505

>>16929990
>latin quotations at the start of all your chapters

I feel as though I've read books like this but I can't actually think of a specific one.

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16931514

>To the library, and step on it.

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16931525

>TFW you'll never be a white male author who gets to write an incoherent ebonics chapter for a black character because it's current year not 1996 and you would be cancelled for racism.

Why even live bros?

>> No.16932201

>>16931179
>get everything out of it

>> No.16932235

>>16931525
Just get canceled. Why do you need the approval of a culture you despise?

>> No.16932289

>>16931179
Midwit plot-analysis bullshit. indistinguishable from the people who write essays on the time turner in Harry Potter.

>> No.16932302

>>16931525
Even in 1996 you only got away with that if nobody actually read your works