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4783765 No.4783765[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

how is it?

>> No.4783766

It's okay I guess.

>> No.4783780

>>4783765
it's popular so it sucks

Seriously, it's incredible. Not to be hyperbolic, I'd say it's easily the best book of its decade, perhaps of its half-century.

>> No.4783781

kind of shit compared to DeLillo's Underworld

>> No.4783783

it's postmodern so it sucks

>> No.4783876

Reading this now. I'd say it's pretty autistic, And is respectable Im guessing because of it's world creation aspects. I expect this is why the pale king is considered a masterpiece. Dfw is kind of like an anthropologist and a microeconomist ducttaped together in the giuse of a short story writer. Kind of like Chekhov or Kafka.

>> No.4783883

>>4783781
wow it must be really bad then

>> No.4783887

incredible. changed me in several ways, one being the way I read. i hate how it's so hip to act dismissive in regards to it—it's okay to like popular things.

>> No.4783892

>>4783765
I choose this book to be my first to read in english (non-native) language.
I failed.

>> No.4784057

>>4783765
i liked it. i think it's probably a good bridge between normal novels and hard to read/long novels. i feel like i would be more confident reading something like moby dick now that i've read IJ.

>> No.4784295

it's one of those words

can you guess which?