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What should I do with this book and why?

>> No.22743011

>>22743006
laugh at all the tennis chapters, then laugh at the author for killing himself.

>> No.22743015

>>22743006
Perfect for kindling. Not great as toilet paper.

>> No.22743024

Just fucking read it you douchebag.

>> No.22743066

>>22743011
Not funny!

>>22743015
Hm...

>>22743024
I have!

>> No.22743096

>>22743006
Read it while masturbating

>> No.22743137

inb4 map/territory guy comes into the thread

>> No.22743437

>>22743096
Hm... Maybe not.

>>22743137
What's the countdown?

>> No.22743458

>>22743006
So does this book suck or not? I've mostly sworn off doorstop 20th century showoff novels, but the backlash against IJ has reached such a point that I think it must actually be good. He wrote some banger short stories, it can't be all bad.

>> No.22743486

>>22743458
It's not bad but a good chunk of it does feel incessantly juvenile in that early 30s sort of way. Read it only to read The Pale King, which is the last true American classic.

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22744236

How did this make me feel?

>> No.22744346

>>22743458
It's the only book I've ever read that really puts you into the mind of a schizoid addict. The way you're second guessing things narrative and all. I've talked about this with some friends that didn't quite like the book and they all experienced similar feelings but to them they just felt like it was a neat gimmick/trick but wasn't worth the time investment otherwise.

For me, that feeling alone made the book worthwhile. For you it might just be a gimmick. I don't know, it's a hard book to recommend even If I did mostly like it. If you like the writing style of his short stories that could also be a good reason to pick it up. You get a lot of that.

>> No.22744348

>>22743006
Read it so you can confidently call it shit

>> No.22744351

>>22743458
Read it and find out :)

>> No.22744556

Read it and defy the author by becoming a pseud worshipping it somewhat ironically in a way to filter out the real pseuds from your life. "jaja I was only pretending to be retarded, jokes on them"

>> No.22744958

Anyone?
>>22744236

>> No.22744973

>>22743006
PERMANENT

BAN

FOR

POSTING

FAGGOT

FACES

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>>22744973
He gets Taco Bell a lot and collects hot sauces at home.

>> No.22745079

>>22743006
Use it to heat your home.

>> No.22745084

>>22745079
Use it to beat your Holmes

>> No.22745218

>>22743458
If you read it once, its good. If you read it twice it's excellent. If you read it three times it's a masterpiece

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>>22745218
You're awful

>> No.22745885

The title alone has always made me not want to read it. It's like he had Joker makeup on while writing it.
Its fans make me hate it.
Excerpts make me cringe.

>> No.22746079

At this point there are more people that have crafted an entire personality around hating this book than there are "litbros" that worship it. Maybe it was always like this.

Feels like there's some growing interest in Jest again because these autists won't stop reminding everyone of how much they don't like it and how terrible of a person you must be if you like it. This isn't the way I would've liked for things to turn out but I'm glad there's still some interest out there.

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>>22746079
Or maybe it's just a mid book

>> No.22746110

>>22746079
I wouldn't say I even think about it unless someone is insisting I "have to read it".
That title is so gay. Using the word "jest" is such reddit-ass fart-sniffing I find it off-putting.

>> No.22746112

What is this book and why do you guys hate it?

>> No.22746133

>>22746112
common lit tradition to waste people's time by making them read a 1k page book filled with autistic ramblings of an equally autistic yet sensitive person

>> No.22746154

>>22746112
It's good book. It's been on /lit/s recommended reading for years with a bit of playful teasing about it only being good as a doorstopper. Over the years newfags flooded in, saw the memes and took them very seriously. Now here we are.

>> No.22746310

>>22746154
It's not that good you may have fell for the meme

>> No.22746361

>>22746310
I don't know what "not that good" means. It's a good book that's worth reading. I don't care if sir binkle bottom's adventure is better, that doesn't make it any less of a good book.

>> No.22747559

>>22746361
Eh, it's mid