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These are the only three books you need to read. Have you read them?
I worked through gravity's rainbow in highschool and finished ulysses and infinite jest right before i dropped out of university. they changed my life. we use to talk about them a lot here but now people don't discuss them at all

>> No.22065397

>>22065386
holy shit the meme trilogy. yeah, I remember when they used to be constant topics of discussion here. every time you'd open /lit/ there was someone chattering about Infinite Jest. now, no longer. I think it's a good thing. the board's moved on to other obsessions. for a bit it was rené guénon, now it's philosophy. wonder what it'll be in five years. wonder if I'll still be posting here in five years. I can't think too much about the future or I start to get freaked out

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>> No.22065415

>>22065412
oh my god I haven't seen the cover to Behead All Satans in years. jesus christ I feel old. I'm only 24 but I've been posting here for so fucking long.

>> No.22065416

>>22065412
seek the rope

>> No.22065470

>>22065386
where is call of the crocodile? trash list

>> No.22065824

>>22065386
I will shit on your grave.

>> No.22065843

>>22065386
>That Ulysses cover
Christ. Also all three are brilliant but it goes Ulysses > GR > IJ

>> No.22065944

>>22065386
>>22065412
These makes me not want to read these books

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>>22065412
>>22065386
The books are still good

>> No.22065988

>>22065386
good old meme trilogy. one of my favourite /lit/ memes

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>>22065386
>nearly 3000 pages of text utterly mogged by this 100 page novel by a school teacher.
Real memery

>> No.22066504

>>22065412
Holy based

>> No.22066526

>>22065397
I miss the absurdist phase, that was when I started coming to /lit/ regularly.

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>>22065412
This made me think if pic related was edited to add BAS just for shit and giggles without being a disturbing book

>> No.22066625

>>22065386
They sound very gay. Are you gay?

>> No.22066643

>>22065843
>I . . . have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters–to the end of the Cemetery scene; & then puzzled, bored, irritated, & disillusioned as by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. And Tom, great Tom, thinks this on a par with War & Peace! An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating. When one can have cooked flesh, why have the raw? But I think if you are anaemic, as Tom is, there is glory in blood. Being fairly normal myself I am soon ready for the classics again. I may revise this later. I do not compromise my critical sagacity. I plant a stick in the ground to mark page 200.

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>> No.22066746

>>22065415
Only 6 years though, right anon?

>> No.22066820

>>22065386
DFW is ugly, his bandana is retarded and he's cringe in interviews. Therefore you are wrong.

>> No.22067369

>>22065386
ok, i will read these

>> No.22067382

I read the other two and absolutely loved them but Ulysses filtered me HARD on my first try. I’m going to give it another go this year after reading the Brothers K

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>>22065386
Gravity's Rainbow is one of Jonathan Blow (The Witness)'s favorite "long-form" novels. Can someone explain why? Jonathan Blow very clearly like Prometheus and Nukes. Is it a meditation on that whole realm of philosophy? The wikipedia is like a Jackson Pollock painting of annoying meaningless phrases. Is that what the book is: a Jackson Pollock in word form? The cover of the book would suggest that