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17048516 No.17048516 [Reply] [Original]

What was his deal?

>> No.17048529

He gay

>> No.17048601
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17048601

He doesn't talk down, which gets mixed reactions. He's deeply flawed and he knows it, which also gets mixed reactions. He wrote one of the longest books of the last two decades, i like it, some don't.

>> No.17048868

>>17048516
he really wanted to be Don Delillo

>> No.17048911

>>17048868
with some pynchon in there too

>> No.17048918

He read too many books

>> No.17049163

maybe watch the interview your pic is from

>> No.17049194

>>17048516
Enormous curiosity about the world. Inability to cope with how sad it made him.

>> No.17049201

low effort OPs should be banned

>> No.17049211

>>17049201
Maybe you should be banned, man. This is the most interesting thread ive seen on here all day

>> No.17049288

>>17048516
want post-irony? get sincere*!

*option may not be available anymore

>> No.17049317

>>17049288
end notes in a 4chan post? He would be so proud

>> No.17049463

He was attempting to articulate capitalist realism but lacked the materialist framework to really comprehend it

>> No.17049490

>>17048516
Super anxious and self critical. Highly intellectual and condescending, hated this about himself. Saw the horror show of modern hedonism and felt like he couldn’t do anything to stop it. I never read his books just listened to his interviews. Seems like a good guy that was destroyed by his mind

>> No.17050130

>>17049163
this

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>>17048516
He was an erudite guy who probably would have done better mentally in an earlier era, yet was able to extract and write about the weirdness of existing in the modern world.
Haven't read any of his fiction but I've found his essays to be a delight to read

>> No.17052014

>>17048868
This desu

>> No.17052061

>>17050615
His fiction is really just an extension of his essays, and his essays are half-fiction anyway

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17052067

What was he thinking? This is borderline unreadable.

>> No.17052071

Unironically too good for this world.

>> No.17052079

pontificated too much

>> No.17052098

Has anyone picked up his ideas in a clearer and less rambly fashion? I always find his work tedious to read.