When does it get good? Should I drop it?
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When does it get good? Should I drop it?
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i rmemeber a long time ago someone told me it picks up around 200
i liked it the whole time however so you might just be getting filtered*
people in this board should have more courage to drop books they don't like tbh
don't read shit to impress anonymous strangers on a Somali cuisine forum, anon
Yeah I’m thinking about dropping it. So far it’s been 200 pages of nothing
A good second half can sublime the first.
Imagine dropping a book because it doesn't meet your standards of instant gratification. r/literature is that way zoomer
>simping for a mediocre book this hard
>everything is le simping
lol why are zoomer nigs like this?
>can't argue for his book, so tries to get personal
lol, why do speuds like this?
As someone whos struggled with drugs and addiction it resonated with me and put my life in a new perspective. Its helped me get sober. Why dont you like it?
It gets good around page 400. Then it gets really good around page 600.
The less entertaining parts of the novel for me were the MP introduction and the puppet play film in the first half of the book. The last 600 pages feel like a breeze.
It gets better once you realize what Wallace is going for: the map/territory dichotomy.
To give you a little help: The map is what you show the world, the territory is who you really are. Hal's map is delivering the goods (meeting expectations) and his territory is what is revealed in the long bits of his internal monologue at the end (everything he shut down avoided with his pot use so he could meet expectations and not confront his territory). Identify everyone's map/territory and why/how their map and territory do not align is key to understanding IJ. Don't forget the narrator, he has a map and a territory as well.
I don’t know man it’s just endless amount of useless information I think im dropping it
idk man I think I might drop this thread too it's just same post useless post repeated over and over
If the book is boring you that much then I agree you should drop it.
A good book can be kind of ruined or severely diminished if you're forcing yourself through it because you think you just have to finish the book for some asinine reason that isn't a genuine interest in the material. Why are you even reading the book?
lol, you are just repeating every post I make verbatim now. Why can't you just discuss the book?
This is obvious since the start, why you keep saying this.
>since the start
The territory idea does not even get introduced until the eschaton and map is only used conventionally or as just another bit of slang before that and not all that often. Quick ctrl-f of the pdf shows "map" does not get used until around 100 pages in and we have to wait another 100 pages before we get any hint of it being more than just metro Boston slang for face. But he is either a seething janny or an anon having fun with me, roll with it.
Sounds supid, 2bh. What does that have to do with the novel? Sounds like something you forced onto it.
>1000 page ghost story
wish I never read this trash
He was smart but not smart enough to find a good way to live. In the end he was forced with his own inability to find a compelling reason to live (a personal failing of his) and killed himself because of it. A shame because the world is better with people like him in it.
I didn't start really liking it until 300 or so, but towards the end I didn't want to end