/lit/ - Literature

a sincere one

cutie

The kind of guy who looks like this but not a cat
Like the kind of guy who would take an extreme closeup picture like this all blurry and amateurish and you might think he would use this picture on a dating profile but of course this guy would never do online dating not in a million years wouldn't be caught dead online dating but still taking a picture like this.

>>23370944
was the second line meant to be DFWesque? a bit sloppy but I like it

>>23370803
A disgustingly pretentious faggot who hasn't read a good book in his life.

>>23371081
(You)

>>23371081
This lol

>>23370807
>new sincerity as genre
Largely
>what type of person do you imagine?
Imagining a person who hasn't realised that everything ever written is actually all true always, yet. "Infinite Jest" can put that "chink" in the armor of litterary conceptions. Whether it's initial attraction for its inherent pretension, setting (the kind as "world-building"), or some sort of perceived airs gained with admission to this exclusive web clubs for "know-it-alls".
Best warm up read before "BOTNS", then that can be your favorite book, "Jest" will be second. Similar to your favorite teacher in High School who let you out of class early to pick up BK on the way to the skate park.
Inb4 skit so

>>23371227
yikes

>>23370803
The most insufferable self-righteous mid-witted pretentious pseudo intellectual I’ve ever met.

>>23371227
Only a midwit can type so much and say so little

>>23371054
Dallas Fort Worth?

>>23370803
I'm not close to being done with the book and I'm an unliterate retard so any deeper meanings will likely be lost on me, but I really liked reading about Orin putting glass tumblers on cockroaches to suffocate them

>>23371330
>book and I'm an unliterate retard so any deeper meanings will likely be lost on me
Good news: there are none.

>>23371250
That just about covers it.

>>23371227
Your gangstalkers have infiltrated your home. You need to leave NOW

>>23370803
My high school communications teacher.

>>23371330
Wait till you get to the part where the AFR are doing the same thing

>>23370803
My impression of this book from people posting about it on /lit/ is that it's difficult to read, maddeningly so, and what you get for your effort isn't necessarily worth it. Is that right?

>>23375508
No, it's pretty accessible.

>>23370803
What if my favorite book is The Pale King instead?

i got this book. dont think ill ever read it tho

>>23375508
It's extremely accessible. There's a reason women love it.

Infinite jest is my favorite book.
The book is a rorschach test. It may as well be a mirror. Don't like what you see? Not my problem.
Well said!
Thanks!

>>23376149
This is something I can agree with