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5664559 No.5664559 [Reply] [Original]

Where do I start with this beautiful man's exhaustive bibliography? Infinite Jest? A short story? Any of his collections of essays?

>> No.5664590

You don't.

Save yourself the unavoidable epiphany years down the line that postmodernism isn't even a thing and your time would have been better spent reading J.K. Rowling and chasing after girls.

>> No.5664613

Essays.

>> No.5664618

Most people recommend starting with his essays, at least they say that those have an appeal even for people who don't like his style that much (he does write fiction as if it were an essay). <I personally started with Oblivion and liked it, but maybe the older short story colections will make the changes he made when starting to write novels clearer. Usaully, if you're really decided to read multiple works, the right answer is production order.

>>5664590
Go away anti change scum, there's more than enough space for postmodernism with all the other modernism bastard sons, and there's more than enough time to get your head between legs while you study them.

>> No.5664984

>>5664559
Start with his suicide note then start on your own.

>> No.5664985

>>5664559
SWTG

>> No.5665200
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5665200

>>5664559

Veni
Vidi
Vici

>> No.5665202

>>5664984
then what

>> No.5665211

>>5665200
how is everything & more?

>>5664559
I recommend A Supposedly Fun Thing, then IJ

>> No.5665222

>>5665200
why would you ever go by book height and not alphabetical order

>> No.5665226

>>5665211
according to scholars, full of errors

>> No.5665228

>>5664559

Start with one of his stories, preferably Good Old Neon.

>> No.5665230

>>5665211

Everything and More is terrible. It is a good idea for a book and Wallace clearly loves the material but it is almost unreadable. Confusing, rambling, unclear exposition of mathematical terms. Plus I think he was trying for a satire of academic writing at some parts that falls very flat.

>>5665222

Book height is aesthetically pleasing to me. I do it for all my books