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Which book of the meme trilogy should I tackle first?

>> No.21410885

>>21410876
Same order (L to R) as your picture.

>> No.21410892

>>21410885
Whys that anon?

>> No.21410902

>>21410876
Chronologically. But know the first one is going to be the best

>> No.21410907

>>21410892
IJ is the easiest to read. Take that out of the way right away. Then chronologically.

>> No.21410912

>>21410876
Read right to left but don’t lower yourself to IJ.

>> No.21410913
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21410913

In what order?

>> No.21410915

>>21410876
Chronologically, but know the second is the best (like all trilogies)

>> No.21410919

>>21410876
Just read Ulysses the other two are not worth it

>> No.21410975

>>21410919
Whys that anon?

>>21410912
Whats wrong with Infinite Jest?

>> No.21410983

>>21410915
>the second is the best (like all trilogies)
Debatable as this not always applies.

>> No.21410985

>>21410975
> Whats wrong with Infinite Jest?
There’s no discernible talent.

>> No.21410987

>>21410985
Stephen King is Cervantes compared to Wallace.

>> No.21411105

>>21410985
>>21410987
When did /lit/ start hating Wallace?

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>>21411105

>> No.21411277

im 300 pages into IJ. theres no way i dont finish it now right? this is where it gets better?

>> No.21411315

>>21411105
When reddit and littube started liking him. It's very simple.

>> No.21411324

>>21411105
Wallace was cancelled and his problematic depictions of women did not age well in 2022.

>> No.21411464

>>21411277
How many pages does your edition have?

>> No.21411896

>>21411277
look, if you have to ask if or when it gets better, then you don't like it and shouldn't waste your time reading it. Just read something you enjoy, not what a website tells you to read.

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>>21411105

>> No.21411918

>>21411896
Common folklore says it doesn't get gud until ~400 pages

>> No.21411926

>>21411918
The book has about 1000 pages. You're telling me it doesn't get good until approximately 40% in?

>> No.21411957

>>21411926
Sure

>> No.21412821

>>21410876
Same order (L to R) as your picture.

>> No.21413308

>>21412821
Whys that anon?

>> No.21414664

>>21410876
new to /lit/ here,why are these considered the "meme trilogy"?

>> No.21414667

>>21414664
go back

>> No.21414711

Portrait of the artist as a young man.
Ulysses.
Finnegan's wake, as a lifelong commitment, and for a lifetime of fun.
This is your trilogy.
Infinite jest is garbage. Gravity's rainbow a little better, a little more fun, but so inconsequential when beheld next to Ulysses.
Supplementary (and indeed, necessary) reads are Dubliners, the Iliad, and the Odyssey.

>> No.21414912

>>21411926
Part of the reason is that until 300, 400 pages in the book consists largely of seemingly unrelated snippets before it focusses on a smaller cast of characters and a more straightforward plot. The characters and events from earlier on get gradually introduced and by the end you can make out the whole picture.

>> No.21415156

>>21410876
>Ulysses
pseud lit 101, imagine unironically wasting time on this literal shitpost of a book

>> No.21415165

>>21411105
He got mentioned in Rick and Morty

>> No.21415174

>>21414664
They get shitposted here a lot.
Joyce because it is an important work of modernism
Pynchon because its an important work of postmodernism
Wallace because it is soft and absorbent and is good to shitpost on

>> No.21415849

>>21414711
I'm actually leaning on reading Ulysses last because I feel like it's the one I'll enjoy the most (also I actually gotta read the Odyssey).

>> No.21416234

>>21411277
It literally only gets better. Until they start building the bed

>> No.21416521

>>21414664
Up until a few years ago we always had at least one thread on each in the catalog, and theh sere the most consistent threads, rest of the board wenf through phases but these three remain. Still have fairly regular threads on them. They are also good fun to discuss.

>> No.21416540

>>21414664
Pseuds pretended to read these books because they were difficult and long back in the day. Gets an odd thread every other day. Were never as popular as Dosto's famous 3 though at any point of time.

>> No.21416552

>>21411105
I've been on lit for years and there was always an undercurrent of distaste for Wallace.

>> No.21416575

>>21416552
People like >>21416540 seething that their favorite author does not get daily threads. Ultimately everything here gets such an undercurrent, especially in the past 4 or 5 years, always amazes me how angry some get over the tastes of others.

>> No.21417391

>>21416575
Lmao seething postmodern shitter.

>> No.21417396

everything ive heard about gravity's rainbow makes it sound fucking awful

>> No.21417422

>>21417396
because you only see the shitposting parts. people talk about the parts with pedos and eating shit but not about byron the bulb or Tchitcherine's story or the freemason disclosure

>> No.21417432

>>21411918
>>21411926
that's only half-true. It's about 200 pages in but yes, it only rewards you after you put some work in. It is certainly the weakest of the 3 but that's not saying much with a bar so high.

>> No.21418413

>>21411105
>>21416552
this, i think the memes just got stale. or, it is just a case of the monkeys & ladder experiment. a lot of people i personally know will dismiss wallace even though they never read him.

>> No.21418828

>>21415849
Helps if you revisit your Hamlet also.

>> No.21420002

>>21410876
L->R