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Thoughts? I just picked it up. Not sure what to expect as I have heard very little about it.

>> No.3618707

He considered it his weakest work by a fair bit. James Wood and the guy that wrote DFW's post-mortem biography talk about it a bit

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Dean Goranites liked it.

>> No.3618737

read it. threads asking about thoughts on a book before the OP has read them are against the rules braj

that being said it is pretty good. pretty light-hearted. all the dfw without any of the seriousness

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>>3618737
What gave you that impression? 90% of the board'd be deleted

>> No.3618774

as a whole it is sort of just dfw showing off--he said that himself--but it's totally worth reading. it has some of the funniest scenes i've ever read and takes its thematic through-lines to some weird logical conclusions that you don't often read.

>> No.3618787

>>3618745
>90% of the board'd be deleted

and we'd be left with the good threads. the horror