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8852921 No.8852921 [Reply] [Original]

Why the fuck is this considered a great book? It's just so infuriating and unbearable to read.

>> No.8852946

>>8852921
I read about the first 100 pages.
Can't stand the way Wallace describes things.
Read some of his shorter stuff. One thing was about puberty and he was describing wet dreams and talking about sticky spasms and warmth. Fucking get away from me Wallace!

>> No.8852953

It's clever enough to make pseuds feel smart without actually being clever or interesting.


Also le tragic depressed genius thing so many people engage with.

>> No.8853545

>>8852946
Reddit

>> No.8853604

Never read it and I don't intend to

>> No.8853635

I never bothered to read it, but I certainly pretend I have.

>> No.8853649

>>8852921
Its a meme and shit. I wish Borges was pushed like this faggot. Ferrante is a better vanguard of New Sincerity.

>> No.8853652

>>8852921
It's like Ziz for /fit/. If you die following the ideal lifestyle of a board, especially tragically, you are immortalized, no discernible talent be damned.

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8853697

>>8852921
DFW was a closet homo and everyone knew it...and so by the 12th law of the New York Times, the kikes pushed IJ as a genius masterwork.

Many plebeians fall for this meme.

>> No.8853724

>>8852921
>Why the fuck is this considered a great book

It's not, not really.