/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21291597]

I opened DFW's biography and was greeted with the worst opening sentence I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.21291610]

>Every story has a beginning and this is David Wallace's.
Sounds like something I would write to inflate the number of words in an assignment.

[Anonymous No.21291622]

>>21291597
Lol, chapter title is just as bad. What little I have read of DT Max's writing I have not been impressed by and this just enforces my aversion to this biography.

[Anonymous No.21291631]

Anyone seen the movie based on this book?

It's absolutely cringeworthy, I really found it hard to take it seriously at all.

[Anonymous No.21291639]

>>21291597
wait until you get to chapter 2 where he gets a golden retriever

[Anonymous No.21291655]

>>21291631
Different book.

[Anonymous No.21291868]

>>21291622
I hope the book will be worth reading, in the end. I expected more from an opening page then biography-by-numbers, jumping right into DFW's parents lives with average, milquetoast prose.

[Anonymous No.21292087]

>>21291597
Is his writting the same in his books?

[Anonymous No.21292228]

>>21291597
>Every book has first sentence and you've just read the first one of this one.

[Anonymous No.21292388]

>open Word
>*click clack click clack click*
>"Every story has a beginning and this is David Wallace's."
>Whew, that's good stuff. Time for a well earned break.

[Anonymous No.21292436]

>>21291622
>Lol, chapter title is just as bad.
B-but Moby-Dick!

[Anonymous No.21292465]

>>21291597
> "This is the first line of my novel lol," the writer thought to herself as she wrote the first line of her novel. The keys under her writer's fingers went clicky-clack as she typed the words you're reading now. "Phew, I'm getting hungry," she thought to herself, but also typed onto the page here, in this sentence. It was lunchtime.

Now it's the second worst opening you've ever read.

[Anonymous No.21292555]

>>21292087
Look up the definition of a biography and then ask yourself if you are retarded.

[Anonymous No.21293236]

Every post has a first sentence and this is mine.

[Anonymous No.21293286]

>>21291631
There's a movie?

[Anonymous No.21293366]

>>21293286
Yes. It is called "The End of the Tour"

[Anonymous No.21293367]

>>21293286
It was a Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg movie, 'The End of the Tour'.

[Anonymous No.21293385]

>>21291597
'It can't be that bad,' I thought before opening the image.

[Anonymous No.21293411]

>>21291597
woah,....... the power of new sincerity..............................................................................................................................................................................

[Anonymous No.21293938]

>>21291868
I wouldn't count on it. Not to long ago an anon attempted to prove me wrong with a page from the biography, Max literally represents hearsay as fact, the excerpt posted was along the lines of "this guy who knew Wallace has a friend that saw Wallace do something related." The irony was I did not even say it was true or untrue, just said it is something we will never know.

From the excerpts I have seen Max goes to absurd lengths to be objective and loses all objectivity in the process. There is probably some worthwhile solid information in there, but I can not see it really providing much insight into Wallace beyond the mundane facts of his life.

[Anonymous No.21294053]

>>21291597
>her father a potato farmer
He accidentally the verb.

[Anonymous No.21294105]

>>21294053
3/8

[Anonymous No.21294186]

>>21291631
>>21293286
yeah theres a movie and it sucks ass. imagine everything DFW ever tried to say and now imagine the man saying it is actually an obese asshole addicted to slamming cheeseburgers down his face and watching TV all day

[Anonymous No.21294189]

>>21294186
Sounds like DFW.

[Anonymous No.21294258]

>>21294186
The X-rated Audience Pussy Cut rectifies the film imo.

[Anonymous No.21294681]

>>21291597
Most of you would write like this if you decided to write your own book LOL

[Anonymous No.21294686]

>>21294681
laughing out loud

[Anonymous No.21294877]

>>21294681
>>21294686
1) lol, an acronym for the phrase “laugh out loud,” not to be confused with similar acronyms like “rofl” (“rolling on the floor laughing”), “lmao” (“laughing my ass off”), or composites of such acronyms (such as “roflmao” (“rolling on the floor laughing my ass off”). I first encountered such terms when in rehab for the third time and met a fellow marijuana enthusiast with a penchant for internet posting. The novelty of such succinct yet evocative expressions of emotion immediately impressed me with their power, both for sincerity and for mockery.

[Anonymous No.21295293]

>>21294877
You’re not a good writer.

[Anonymous No.21295297]

>>21292087
it's not an autobiography

[Anonymous No.21295302]

>>21292465
I genuinely think this is a good opening. It made me laugh and I want to continue reading more of it

[Anonymous No.21295303]

>>21293367
>a Jew as DFW
>a Jew as Napoleon
>a Jew as [insert any non-Jew]
??

[Anonymous No.21295373]

>>21295303
>a Jew as [a tenant living rent free in the slum that is your mind]

[Anonymous No.21295379]

>>21295373
>stop noticing things!

[Anonymous No.21295562]

>>21295379
You're over charging.

[Anonymous No.21295905]

>>21295379
The jews can have DFW because he was a worthless hack. Dig him up and rebury him in tel aviv and I wouldn't care

[Anonymous No.21295914]

>>21292436
>it references something i like! that means its good!
Pop culture has rotted your brain.

[Anonymous No.21295915]

>>21295303
That's because jews are hwhite and the black man is the true Hebrew

[Anonymous No.21296453]

>>21295293
Never claimed to be but neither was DFW or his biographer it seems.

[Anonymous No.21296468]

>>21293286
It was on the tv yesterday, I fell asleep 40 mins in.

[Anonymous No.21296584]

>>21295914
learn sarcasm buddy :^)

[Anonymous No.21296666]

>>21291597
Jesus fucking Christ it is shit

[Anonymous No.21296684]

>>21291597
I liked the broom of the system :)

[Anonymous No.21296965]

>>21291597
DFW is just a penis with a thesaurus. Of the total 25 books by Pynchon wannabes I’ve read, Infinite Jest is far and away the worst, a novel so mind-bendingly clunky and self-indulgent that it’s hard to believe the author let it be published in this kind of shape.

[Anonymous No.21297060]

Apparently they're gonna translate IJ to Dutch, I'm looking forward to it just for shits and giggles.

[Anonymous No.21297117]

>>21293938
Honestly I've dropped it after reading some goodreads reviews, prompted by the awful first line lol

Thanks for the vindication.

[Anonymous No.21297951]

>>21296965
Rec som pincone epigones pl0x.

[Anonymous No.21299540]

>>21291631
I liked it : (

[Anonymous No.21299832]

>>21291610
fpbp

[Anonymous No.21301013]

>>21292465
>her
Ghastly.

[Anonymous No.21301658]

>>21296965
I thought IJ was great. It flows beautifully, I have no idea where you got the clunky impression from.

[Anonymous No.21303187]

>>21292465
that one's funny

[Anonymous No.21303641]

Poop

[Anonymous No.21303825]

>>21296965
>25 books by Pynchon wannabes
You really read all that obscure shit?

[Anonymous No.21303936]

>>21295293
Hes better than dfw

[Anonymous No.21303941]

>>21301658
Post an example of IJ "flowing beautifully" or being meaningful.

[Anonymous No.21304024]

>>21292465
>This is the first line of my novel lol"
Oh I'm laffin

[Anonymous No.21304952]

>>21297951
I demand spoonfeeding!

[Anonymous No.21305053]

>>21291631
>>21291597
>>21296965
I can't understand all the love for this guy, he's a total hack. Is literally just the classic "they commit suicide so now we retroactively call them a genius" a-la Heat Legend, Amy Winehouse, juice world, etc

[Anonymous No.21305466]

>>21292388