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I'm just kinda curious. How much, if at all, have you read out of David Foster Wallace's books? I was sitting here thinking just how much I've read and reread him, and was curious. Template below.

Infinite Jest
The Pale King
The Broom of the System
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Oblivion: Stories
Girl With Curious Hair
Consider The Lobster
ASFTINDA

Infinite Jest - once, some partial rereads
The Pale King - once and a half
The Broom of the System - once
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - once
Oblivion: Stories - three or four times
Girl With Curious Hair - about five times
Consider The Lobster - none
ASFTINDA - none

I'm just curious. I've read all of his fiction books, some several times. May read his non-fiction at some point, but I dunno. It's sad, I feel like I've read him to death (no pun intended). He is a very good writer, he really is.

>> No.3345231

Not all that much, curiously enough. The sad fact is, I'm more interested in using 'him' as a false figurehead in an illusory battle against 'irony' in the ridiculous hope of surmounting post-modernism than I am in actually reading his books.

>> No.3345235

I haven't read him. It is hard for me to get books in English and I'm sure that DFW is one of those authors that must be read in his own language. However, I plan reading Pynchon's work first (also in English).

Captcha: militia sortheop

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>>3345224
Infinite Jest x2
The Pale King x 1.5 (I tried reading a second time and found it boring and unfinished...in b4 hurr durr)
The Broom of the System x 4(maybe 5)
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (above)
Oblivion: Stories x 3
Girl With Curious Hair x 3-4
Consider The Lobster x2
ASFTINDA x2 (plus a re-read of some essays here and there)

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>>3345252

this is some serious fanboyism

not even mad, just impressed

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>>3345252

Wow, you read more Wallace than me or the rest of this board, and that's a lot.

>> No.3345262

>>3345259
Ditto. I own Infinite Jest and The Pale King and I've only made it thirty percent through the former.

>> No.3345285

>>3345224
>>3345252

Now think of all the good books you could have read instead of that tripe.

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>>3345259
>>3345260
Really?
Maybe I shouldn't list of my pynchon reading.

>> No.3345289

>>3345252

>tfw he lives on in our hearts and our reading habits

and our memes

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3345293

>>3345285
I know, like Joyce or the other shit you faggots hype up because your English professer says it makes u smart

>> No.3345294

>>3345285
I think about the time I spent reading Jonathan Franzen's lit crit and other essays and I begrudge him of his fanboyism.

(Side note: Franzen, total douche.)

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>>3345294

Franzen's written crit'? Really?

>> No.3345300

>>3345294
>Franzen is a douche
Word.

>> No.3345301

Never read any of him.

Plan to once I'm done with what I need to read now.

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>>3345301

>mfw you've never read Damn Fine Writer

>> No.3345314

Brief Interviews - once all the way through, but I've read The Depressed Person and Octet twice and On His Deathbed three or four times

A supposedly fun thing - just once

Consider the Lobster - same

Infinite Jest - once, but I plan on rereading it this year

The Pale King - once all the way through, but I've re-read several individual chapters

Oblivion - twice all the way through, but Incarnations of Burnt Children is short so I've read it a few times and Good Old Neon is my favourite DFW so I've also re-read that quite a lot

>> No.3345333

>>3345296
One is remember is from Harper's, I uploaded it because you need to be a subscriber to read: http://min.us/lS9WO3DdC4Qob

Be warned that it slightly melted my brain... and it had nothing to do with his secondary desire for all humans to die so he can go birding.

>> No.3345346

I hear his nonfiction is decent, is it worth the time?

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3345378

>>3345333

Thanks, buddy.

>secondary desire for all humans to die so he can go birding
>mfw

>> No.3345387

I've read everything other than Infinite Jest. I really would have liked to read a complete version of The Pale King. It was a good start but he still probably had about a year's worth of work left on it.

I felt the same way about reading A Confederacy of Dunces. Damn it was good, but it could have been better.

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>>3345378
No problem.

He's a huge jackass, but I like his fiction.

>> No.3345476

>>3345346
Like, his works on logic?

>> No.3345492

>>3345346
Yeah it can be pretty interesting and entertaining but I much prefer his fiction.

>> No.3345503

>>3345492
>I prefer prose that sounds like a bunch of nails being shaken in a tin can.

Cool, bro.