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So yeah, i finally decide to read this ''Great american novel'' Infinite Jest. Since all of you talk really good things about it.
AND IT'S COMPLETE SHIT.
Really America? is this your best?
/lit/ trolled me or America is actually as dumb as the stereotypes say.

>> No.3377969

Sounds like you're the dumb one. Not because you dislike IJ, you just generally seem dumb. Go back to /v/ until you have grown up a bit.

>> No.3377977

>>3377969
xD i no rite

>> No.3377984

>>3377969
Are you serious? You must be so mad or something.

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>>3377969
Sounds like you're the mad one. Not because you dislike OP, you just generally seem mad. Go back to /b/ until you have grown up a bit.

>> No.3377991

Yes, you are right. That book is bad and only american begginers like it.

>> No.3377992

>AND IT'S COMPLETE SHIT.
Let's hear those detailed and well-thought-out reasons, op.

>> No.3377995

>>3377992
Why would i have to do that? I don't want to discuss the book, just wanted to say what i said

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3378013

>>3377992
typical IJ fag

>> No.3378028
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3378028

>>3378013
XD
u trolled me good brah

who wants to discuss our favor memes? my favorite is the y u no guy! XD sooooofunny!!!11!

>> No.3378031

>>3378028
Good job IJ Fag, you defeated the troll!!!! :DDD

PS. Nice fallacies.

>> No.3378035

this thread looks like /b/

>> No.3378037

>>3378031
LOL wuts a falacy?

>> No.3378039

>>3378035
Because people get butthurt and underage

>> No.3378040

>>3378035
No, I make half the threads on /lit/.
/lit/ and /v/ are my main boards.

>> No.3378042

>>3378040
He is not OP, btw.

>> No.3378043

>>3378042
Stop trying to derail my thread.
Best thread on /lit/ btw.

>> No.3378045

>>3378043
IJ Fag detected.
Come back when you are at least 18.

>> No.3378048

>>3378045
I made the thread. If you don't want to discuss Infinite Jest, please leave.

>> No.3378057

what are you doing with your life

>> No.3378062

Hi guys. I'm a fucking retard
I'm also underage.

>> No.3378066

Does anyone older than 16 actually buy into this crap? I'm starting to get the impression that DFW's 4 ardent fans here are actually still in high school and desperately need to cling to some false idea of his greatness in order to think it hasn't all been wasted time/effort. (Also so they don't admit to themselves they've been bamboozled.)

>> No.3378068

Nah, man, just nah.

>> No.3378071

After some thoughtful consideration and a walk around the block, I've decided that IJ is actually a swell book. I was just mad. Well, thanks guys. I'm closing the thread now.

>> No.3378073

>>3378066
This should be canon.

>> No.3378076

How can u not liek infinite jets lol

>> No.3378077

>>3378066
My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

but lets get back to le edgy books suck amerikkka circlejerk

>> No.3378081

>>3378077
Present his name and his credentials.

>> No.3378082

>>3378077
lel xD

>> No.3378093

>>3378081
no

I can tell you that the dissertation was, essentially, a 'reading guide' to V.

>> No.3378100

>>3377962
I agree with you OP, book is shit.

>> No.3378106

>>3378040
>use /lit/ and /vg/ all day
>Go to /fit/
>Everyone is happy helpful and brotherly, occasionally in a gay way.
>Two months later, great gains, go to /lit/, disgusted by level of discourse.

>> No.3378109

>>3378066
From what I've seen in various "list for favourite books" threads in the past, people who mention IJ generally tend to have all round good taste.

>> No.3378110

>>3378093
lulz

>> No.3378112

>My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

>My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

>My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

My Literature professor, who did a doctoral thesis on Ruggles, absolutely swears by IJ.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Cautionary Tale of Postmodernism in Academia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>> No.3378114

Why are DFW haters so invariably obnoxious and dense?

>> No.3378119

>>3378109
Because they are dumb and they blindly like canon books. They also tend to think IJ is good just because.

Ulysses? haven't read it but it's boss! xD

>> No.3378120
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>>3378106
I made this about /fit/.

>> No.3378122

>>3378114
Not OP. I find the DFW promoters to incapable of seeing what tremendous garbage IJ is. I gotta agree with Bloom on this one. He isnt always right, but King is Cervantes compared to DFW

>> No.3378123

>>3378114
Why are IJ defenders never able to pinpoint any of the book's merit?

>> No.3378126

>>3378120
Wicked funny, but yeah, /fit/ is still way better, on topic, and all around a better community than this place. If someone comes on /lit/ and wants to talk about a HS reading book, we tell them to go fuck off. If a fatty comes onto /fit/, posts his fatness, reads the sticky, and asks for help, they are SO supportive.

>> No.3378136

>>3378123
I haven't read IJ, but I think the point is to bring up an actual concern first so people can refute it?

>> No.3378142

Take that America! Some bloke on 4chan hates your literature!

I figured I would do us all a favor and continue with OP's idea:

God if I could have met Lovecraft; POW! I'da socked him right in the nose. What trash, class A tasteless scumbag.

Po? more like Edgar Allan Piece of Dog Shit! I vomit at the sight of his work.

Fuck you America, and all your sad attempts at literature!

Im with you OP.

>> No.3378146

>>3378142
"Eurolit is best lit"

-Willium Forkner

>> No.3378154

>>3378142
1/10 made me reply.
Nice try of being fun, cool and edgy.

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3378158

tHAT BOOK IS WAY TOO LONG

>> No.3378165

>>3378142
Po. The man from which the words Poem and Poetry were discovered. He must really suck.

>> No.3378163

>>3378158
Length of book is no problem. I killed Les Mis and Cryptonomicon this year. Millions of pages of garbage is quite a different thing.

>> No.3378160

>>3378142
I actually love Poe. Same with Fitzgerald and Faulkner.
Hemingway is one of my favourites authors.

>> No.3378161

I've changed my mind again!
IJ sucks, and DFW liked Tolstoy therefore Tolstoy also sucks.

>> No.3378167

>>3378158
LOL soooo long amirite?
>MFW that page count
>MFW the footnotes
Too postmodern and weird for me! I'll stick with Danielewski! Sooo much weirder and cooler than Palahniuk!

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3378171

>This thread.
But the point stands still. IJ sucks.

>> No.3378188

>>3377962
I wonder what lifestyle could one be following if one is able to seriously follow advise found in lit and actually taking time to read what one gets from this advise.

I seriously wonder HOW can that even have the possibility to take place...

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>>3378160

Bro fist.

>> No.3378204

oh man it's this thread again
the best part of my day has finally arrived

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3378212

>>3378199
>Hemingway fanboys

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3378228

>OP reads one book
>decides 200 years of literature is worthless

>> No.3378269

>>3378212
>Buy Hemingway
>Really excited
>It's absolute bullshit
Man, fuck Hemingway.

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>>3378314
can you do anything right?

>> No.3378359

>>3378345
But I'm already hung like a Clydesdale.

>> No.3378379

I'm currently reading Infinite Jest, and I'll be hosting a (hopefully good) /lit/ debate about its merits and its weaknesses (all to be supported by specific evidence of the text). I urge others interested to read or re-read the text and take copious (specific) notes describing your points.

We've got to put an end to this idiotic "it sucks" "No it doesn't, you suck" "you suck too" buffoonery.

>> No.3378389

>>3378379
if you started to get specific people would scurry away

>I just read 500,000 words of COMPLETE SHIT

Nah, OP did not.

>> No.3378394

>>3378389
The idea is for the fakers to scurry away. Heaven forbid competent people speak intelligently about things here.

>> No.3378629

bump for flame war