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he has some kino interviews, not gonna read ij though
He is, in my opinion, a man called David Foster Wallace
The philosopher of suburban american gen x'ers
A redditor who transcribed his schizo hallucinations he got while watching the history channel
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oh my god what the frick
>Header from Veteran but Methamphetamine-Dependent Head-liner Finally Demoted after Repeated Warnings about Taking up Too Much Space.
boring. dropped.
be careful what you worship
you might accidentally become a tennis worshipper or a weedman or make weird movies
Far better than any of the American writers who win awards today. Stood out as exceptional because American literature (and Western lit in general) had been on a massive decline.
He's probably the last straight White male author that stood so far above his contemporaries that mainstream critics had to do positive write ups about him and admit he was at least decent. As soon as he died they then went back to complaining about he was "umm problematic" and needed to be re-evaluated or ignored.
compared with the writers of the last 50 years he is one of the best
Only 90 pages left of IJ and I like his style, but it was an exhausting read that took a long ass time. Does he have anything short that's as good?
Picrel (a collection of stories)
His essays
andbutso the door must have been dickied
I like his books.
why
I think they're relevant with our age.
but can you explain yourself on why they're relevant to our current age?
not them but they don't. people are more fixated than addicted.
Either the youngest Xer or the oldes millennial
Probably a bit of both
A man born in time to long deeply for the return of meaning but who didn’t live long enough to be horrified by its return as it contemporaries have been and as he no doubt would in turn
A man who was at his best predicting the 21st century but who would have been absolutely destroyed trying to describe it
He's a young boomer, moron.
Dogshit, pretentious, stupid, desperate mediocrity constantly straining for a greatness well beyond its reach, and propped up by our idiotic readership that has abandoned novels but studies academic texts, and so is easily taken with "impressive footnotes" or a general knowledge base that can easily be found among the reading drunks at your local trivia night.
He absolutely sucks. He is not even useful as a test of critical ability. When someon says "I loved infinite jest" I indeed know I am talking to an idiot, but I always notice that far before they begin speaking, on account of the drool on their lips, such is the stupidity of his readers.
why use so many big words when so few small words do just the same?
Because indulging one's private emotional excesses through public outburst is pleasant and I enjoy the sound of my own writing voice like everyone else.
Why do I have to explain this?
You write like a redditor
You insult like an enfeebled and jealous halfwit.
i mean...
"i think you would like infinite jest"
and "did you red artemis fowl?"
are basically the same thing...
says the DFW fan? What the hell dude?
I would rather converse with an IJ enjoyer than your opinionated, angry personality
really, really good writer. Love his non-fiction and recently bought some of his short story collections. Can't wait.
I read his this is water speech in middle school. I'm grateful to him for that.
You are a satirical genius or a delightful example of sincere and utterly innocent curiosoty. Either way God bless you and I hope you have the merry life you deserve.
This is not a sarcastic remark, I realize it seems to be winking. True enthusiasm for knowledge is awesome and so is good satire.
>I realize it seems to be winking
just like your butthole tbh
literally the greatest living mind of our era
Best yt boy to ever throw a coffee table at a b***h
never read him
The positive is that the themes of his books are very applicable to today and he revealed himself as a prescient man.
The negative is the execution. The style and form clash with his message and themes. It is hard to not read him and see him as a hypocrite or full of shit.
Wigga used to feed his dog mouth to mouth.
Who do you guys think Luria is? Do you think it could possibly be Avril? With everyone tripling and quadrupling, isn't Avril as Luria an entertaining prospect? Could Luria be someone from BU or the tennis academy and not Avril, someone else we know? Is Luria just her own character, and contemplating who could be potentially tripling/quadrupling is the entertaining element?
What do you guys think of Lyle?
When O is talking about Helen Steeply, is he just pretending to be attracted to her to Hal over the phone? And lying about other teammates being gaga over the cross-dressing OUS agent? From Marathe's description it seems a bit beyond the pale that Steeply is unconvincing as a woman and not that attractive.
Do you guys really think O and the Moms fricked or was there a misunderstanding as to why the Volvo could have been fogged up, with her name for O traced out into the fogged window?
Spoon-feed me.
got tired of all the weird homosexual projection and suicide-gatekeeping in his work pretty quick
who cares
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I'm enjoying the book a lot and nearing the end, but there are elements of the book that I'd like to bounce off of others that read it. I do not want to consult Reddit on these matters under any circumstances. I would rather scrape this barrel's bottom and come up with nothing and be even stevens than go to Reddit. Andbutso, I get it.
i didn't say anything about reddit
He was spot on in his predictions but I don't like this sort of Kurt Cobain type of idealism that had swarmed around him because it's seen as cool or trendy to use his works as a fashion accessory
>I don't like this sort of Kurt Cobain type of idealism that had swarmed around him because it's seen as cool or trendy to use his works as a fashion accessory
Same but worth keeping in mind for every one of these people there's 10 who hate him because
>straight White guy who uses big words"
This is mostly correct. IF DFW was still alive and writing it would look embarassing for critics to be heaping all this praise on midwits like Colson Whitehead or Sally Rooney