Was Infinite Jest a meme after all?
>>25619363yes dipshit
THERE IS MORECOMPLEXITYON ANY GIVENAISLE TEN
>>25619385Fuck you
>>25619363Elaborate
infinite breast
>>25619363There hasn't been another American novel since that's surpassed it. What a scathing indictment of American literary culture. And I think Infinite Jest is pretty good.
Infinite Jest is the only book worth reading. It really has it all. Once it came to be, it invalidated all other literature, and entertainment. It is mankind's greatest achievement.
>>25621261>mankind's greatest achievementwhat about the debut of the south korean/japanese girl group Illit?
>>25619363Idk I only read the first 3 chapters...Probably good idk...I'd have to fully read it.
>>25619363i read infinite jest this summer and to be honest i haven't been able to read any novel since that i like quite as much. when i started being an avid reader i would try to latch onto any masculine archetype but after reading dfw and discovering how all of his male characters are betas who get anxious after smoking too much weed and are addicted to porn/junk food i honestly don't think i've ever felt as personally seen when reading in general. how sad.
>>25621270Moka is still on hiatus so it's a rather incomplete achievement
>>25621245I wish they sold these as replacement slip covers so I could take it to the coffee shop that way.
>>25621270I thought you were gonna say AYCE KBBQ / hot pot
>>25621270You will never be a ragebaiter
Roberto Bolaño — 2666: A vertiginous, multi-part epic that shares Infinite Jest’s moral urgency, dark subject matter, and massive structural ambitionPublished posthumously in 2004, Roberto Bolaño’s sprawling, enigmatic epic is widely considered one of the most significant literary achievements of the 21st century.
>>25619363It was a jest.
it's honestly good. it became a meme because of pretentious dickheads name dropping it, but it's an engrossing book examining the emptiness of modern life
its not worth reading and has had no impact or influence on anything. I'm not joking.
I always hear it's the worst of the Meme Trilogy, that both Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow are better.
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If I like Infinite Jest, what should I read next that's similar.
This book changed my life. Honestly. DFW was the defining writer of this epoch
>>25619363No, it's the greatest American novel of all time.
>>25619363Yes. Tards wanted people to read three doorstopers>>25623988This >>25623626And Schmidt's Bottom's Dream (It's a Shakespearian reference title too)
>>25624040The greatest American novels of all time.Moby DickInvisible ManAnd... I can name a dozen better than DFW
>>25624060>Invisible ManH.G. Wells was British. Moby Dick was great, but I have no need for that much information about whales and whaling.
>>25619363for me, it's moving anywhere in the world I want
>>25619363Infinite Jeets: A Story of Canada
>>25624063Wells is The Invisible ManEllison's Invisible Man is 100% American
>>25624063>I have no need for that much information about whales and whaling.this but the junior tennis and pharmaceuticals
>>25619363It's charismatic but incomplete. The fatal flaws of the author's personality are also the texts fatal flows. You can see the talent snuffed out through its own failures. By idolizing Infinite Jest, you're idolizing failure. It's a spectacle of a failure, like a fireworks show that all goes off at once, but it is a failure even if stupendous and entertaining and notable in some fashion.
>>25624196Wait is it incomplete or a failure?
>>25621642not that deep lil bro
>>25624196>i am a heckin MANAGER at mcdonalds iRL! this world famous author is clearly a "failure"
I kind of dislike his prose, but he seems to have been capable of writing a better one when he really wanted to. And even if his prose is "unliterary" there is a value in it when he uses the same words the actual character narrating would use. he did well but like so many other modern writers serve as a noxious damaging example to aspire to.
>>25623988White Noise by Don Dellilo. Turns out he inspired DFW to some degree, earlier post-modern lit but similar vibes at points
>>25624054>Bottom's DreamLike getting dicked down?>>25625059Will check it out
>>25619363The title tells you it's a joke
>>25624196while i wouldn't go so far as to call it a failure, i definitely agree that it is very rough around the edges. and there are some sections where it just feels like he's borrowing too much from delillo. i found the tennis sections to be the least interesting to be honest, and the whole eschaston scene was really just ripped off from end zone. even though i don't think i like it as much as ij, i do think oblivion is his best work. it just feels tighter and more mature, and dfw was going at the modern emptiness theme in more angles rather than just focusing on addiction. if there's one dfw story i'd recommend someone to read, it's mister squishy. it is genuinely one of the most unsettling stories i have ever read. i have just started a career as a recent college grad and terry schmidt honestly scares me because of how easy it is to be that complacent in work and in life
>>25625215Working title was The Entertainment.
>>25625645A Failed Entertainment, actually
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