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>tfw Broom of the System was published when DFW was 24

Does this intimidate anyone else here?

>> No.5546683

>>5546672
>Does this intimidate anyone else here?
not really, no.

>> No.5546685

>>5546672
if I had dreams of being a famous writer it would
but I'd rather be a good one

>> No.5546689

>>5546683
>>5546685
plebshits detected

>> No.5546693

>Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College

If I would study writing at university, it would intimidate me, but I didn't, so I'm not intimidated. I focus my life on different things, I'm an amateur in literature.
It would be fun to get published, but at a different stage in my life.

>> No.5546727

Haven't read it, is it even good?

I always prefer to compare myself with Mary Shelley publishing Frankenstein at 20 when I want to feel inadequate about my writing ability/success. (Granted she had the help of a genius poet husband).

>> No.5546740

>>5546727
It's pretty amazing and very complex and intelligent. So many little intricacies that take a while to figure out.

>> No.5546743

>>5546740
Huh, I'll have to check it out. I've read most of DFW's fiction but not his first novel or story collection. I'm somewhat conflicted on my opinion of him.

>> No.5546744

>>5546672
I'm 31 and haven't done shit in life.

>> No.5546749

Wallace certainly shows off a lot of his knowledge in the book, as well as his predilection for well-established postmodernist techniques, but it's hardly a work of great genius or originality.

>> No.5546750

It feels like only a week ago i learned that and told myself i had plenty of time (i was 17).

I'm 23 now and I still can't write for shit.

>> No.5546753

>>5546744
old faggots on /lit/ unite

I'm pretty sure this is the "oldest" board here, on average.

>> No.5546767

>>5546689
>dfw
>not plebshit

>> No.5546796

>>5546683
>>5546685
>>5546767
>bloomfags

>> No.5546857

You are now aware that there are people NOT YET BORN that will accomplish more in life than you ever will.
Damn them, I have life experience.

>> No.5546875

DFW is similar to God. He's dead.

>> No.5546879

>>5546750
Hello me in a year

>> No.5546895

>>5546879
Have you started anything?

>> No.5546899

>>5546749

I think he's said himself that it's like "a very intelligent 14 year old wrote it".

>> No.5546905

>>5546899
He was just being falsely self-deprecating as usual. You think he actually thought that? The stuff he wrote to some 22 year old about not rushing to get published and being happy with their work was real false IMO, as he was saying this from a perspective wherein he'd already been published etc. If he had woken up 22 and unpublished the next day he'd be just as anxious to get published before 25 as every other kid obsessed with proving their genius at a young age

>> No.5547354 [DELETED] 

Nope, I still got 10 years.

;^)

>> No.5548363

B-b-but Murakami started writing when he was 56

>> No.5548367 [DELETED] 

>>5547354
:)

>> No.5548383

>>5546672

no because it's typical lolsorandum pomo bullshit.

Although I was hugely impressed with all of his short stories that I've read

>> No.5548384

>>5546672
I consider V. being released when Pynchon was 26 more intimidating.

>> No.5548391

>>5548383
> pomo bullshit
how to detect a plen 101

>> No.5548616

>>5546689
Please see
>>5543023

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5548632

broom's not even top 50 most intimidating

>> No.5549027

>>5546727
Have you read Frankenstein? It is arguably a pretty shitty novel. The word countenance appears on nearly every page, often multiple times.

>> No.5549037

>>5546672

Keats is more intimidating than DFW.

>> No.5549112

>>5546672
Kolsti finished Phuc Stevenson at 17. That's fucking scary.

>> No.5549393

cervantes wrote quixote when he was like 56

>> No.5549410

>>5549027
Perhaps in terms of prose, but in terms of the ideas and the philosophical debates brought about from the novel it's arguably a work of genius. Especially when one factors in the context in which it was written.

>> No.5549466

>>5549410
It's her husband's friends' Luddism. That's it.

>> No.5549472

>>5549112
Kolsti Nguyen is 17? Shit, I assumed he was at least an undergrad.

>> No.5549480

>>5549112
>>5549472
kolsti go

>> No.5549872

>>5549480
What's Kolsti's deal?

>> No.5549892

>>5549112
>>5549472
Fuck off kolsti you talentless cunt

>> No.5549906

Murakami didn't even start writing until he was 29

>> No.5549934

>>5546727
ummm..... well lets just say that it is very hit or miss. there was some very good dialogue and whacky scenarios that DFW draws out to absurd and funny lengths but there were also very amateur bits, clunky and workmanlike. you could tell that it was his first real stab at writing. i recommend it if you like DFW in general. has more in common with his stories and essays than IJ

>> No.5550107

No why would I ever be intimidated by lit bros. We're siphoning from the same source and adding to one body, and it doesn't really matter as to whether or not they end up more successful. I wish the best for every young brooding author, even the annoying ones. I honestly hope kolsti and other tryhards end up publishing anthologies of juvenilia later in life when they're successful.

We're all in this together gang

>> No.5550389

>>5550107
>the Zyzz of /lit/