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Also, it goes without mentioning, but this is WIP. I don't have all the details down yet.

>>9862838
If you can write, fine. Based of your apparant influences, that seems unlikely

>>9862880
>apparant influences
What do you mean by this?

>>9862803
It's not a problem if you enjoy it. Though you should probably read something else, or you'll continue to be the type of person who unironically thinks DFW is the greatest author of all time despite having never read anything else.

>>9862803
Yyou're in serious trouble, very serious trouble, and you know it, finally, deadly serious trouble, because this Infinite JEst you thought was your one true friend, that you gave up all for, gladly, that for so long gave you relief from the pain of the Losses your love of that relief caused, your mother and lover and god and compadre, has finally removed its smily-face mask to reveal centerless eyes and a ravening maw, and canines down to here, it's the Face In The Floor, the grinning root-white face of your worst nightmares, and the face is your own face in the mirror, now, it's you, the Infinite Jest has devoured or replaced and become you, and the puke-, drool- and Infinite Jest-crusted T-shirt you've both worn for weeks now gets torn off and you stand there looking and in the root-white chest where your heart (given away to It) should be beating, in its exposed chest's center and centerless eyes is just a lightless hole, more teeth, and a beckoning taloned hand dangling something irresistible, and now you see you've been had, screwed royal, stripped and fucked and tossed to the side like some stuffed toy to lie for all time in the posture you land in. You see now that It's your enemy and your worst personal nightmare and the trouble It's gotten you into is undeniable and you still can't stop. Reading the Infinite Jest now is like attending Black Mass but you still can't stop, even though the Infinite Jest no longer gets you high. You are, as they say, Finished. You cannot get drunk and you cannot get sober; you cannot get high and you cannot get straight. You are behind bars; you are in a cage and can see only bars in every direction. You are in the kind of a hell of a mess that either ends lives or turns them around.

>>9862803
I get the joke.

Kinda retarded but he told an emperor to get out of his sunlight which is pretty badass. Dumbass lived in a barrel when he didn't have to, but on the other hand he did lay some sick burns on that nerd Plato. 5/10

>>9862802
fictional straw-man invented by aristotle

He was kind of a pussy.
If I can carry on under the nigh intolerable burden of 2017 American society then he could certainly have been a functioning Athenian.

>>9862791
I've never seen that mentioned on here, so it's probably worth reading.

He was a brilliant claccicist and a smackhead, sounds promising

>>9862791
anything with opium in the title written before 1900 is worth reading

MODS

>>9862750
>Are there any young adult novels that are hunger games tier?
Yeah, just about all of them are shit.

>>9862755
HG wasn't shit dude. I normally don't like too many fiction books, but these books sucked me into their world...

I remember seeing trailers for the first movie and they seemed okay, but what got me is that it was based on some huge book...

I tried the first twilight book and hated it. I quit about 100 pages in... but for some reason, with HG, I finished the entire series in about 2 weeks...

I'm a guy who usually, when I read a book, it takes weeks to just finish one. So all 3 in less than 2 weeks means those books had a big impact on me. And then I read all 3 again and watched all the movies. Before that, the only other book I'd read twice was my favorite book ever, Contact by Carl Sagan....

Don Quixote
A Confederacy of Dunces

>>9863177
This.

>>9862633
Tortilla Flat

They're ininfitely more tolerable than the rest of you theoretical cocksuckers, that's for sure.

Pragmatism is retarded desu

>>9862594
Pragmatism puts truth into a context. It's not stupid, it's how one can operate in this world. With mere theories you can always question them until paralysis.

They just can't write

>Why do post-modernists think it's acceptable

because postmodernists think everything is acceptable :^)

because modernists did it

>>9862418
i really like delillos prose but yeah i seriously cant give a shit about any of the characters here

the best parts are the parts where hes describing shit and not when the characters are doing stuff together/talking

the prologue is the best bit

>>9862442
will finishing it yield a pay-off? Like, do all the thoughts converge and reward me for going through the 800 pages?

>>9862418
Just finish it to say that you did. The epilogue is actually pretty good and ties several of the threads/themes together. I agree with the other poster that for the most part it doesn't live up to the promise of the prologue.

>>9862395

My friend used to love her books in middle school.
He would check them out of the school library all the time until one day the gifted and talented teacher made fun of him for reading them and berated him for not reading "the classics" and so then he just stopped reading entirely lol.

>>9862401
What a shitty teacher. Kid's barely read as is and she berates a middle schooler for reading something he enjoys.

>>9862412

Yeah he was weird.
And this was 6th grade so by "classics" he just meant stuff like Jules Verne lol.

>>9862362
Get good grades. Literally nothing else matters.

>>9862362
If you're studying something difficult and worthwhile, totally unnecessary. No one asks where your math or physics degree came from. Psychology or econ? Different story.

If you're studying bullshit or trying to have a career where credentials matter more than talent, its very very important.

Oh also if you go to a good school, your average classmate will be more intelligent and well read, and fellow alumni will be more successful. The differences in network between e.g. and Ivy and a no name state school are so profoundly massive as to not be worth detailing here.

>>9862362

THIS

I want to go to Princeton for German but I'm 28 with a 2.5 GPA and haven't gotten my undergrad yet and have tons of Fs on me transcript from when I was an alcoholic and am planning on undergradding in EE.
My German professor got her PhD from Princeton though and she says she'd let me into the Masters program for German at our school.
Chance I could jump to Princeton after that?

prefer his brother

>>9862215

What did his brother write?

>>9862234
under en filt i madrid

Who do you hang out with? Most people barely read at all, and will get personally offended if they catch you in the act.

>>9862173

Nobody. But I worry that it might happen

>>9862173

>and will get personally offended if they catch you in the act

wut

>>9862088
FACT: Only a dead Mudslime is a good Mudslime.

>>9862088
i don't get where you're going with this

>>9862088
I don't remember them talking about representatives in the book, voting yeah, but not necessarily on a parliament or other legislative body.

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>>9861951
They have given enough

>>9861951
Anne Carson
Marshall McLuhan
Northrop Frye
William Gibson

the list goes on

>>9861951
French Canadian literature is just as meh as the Anglo Canadian one, mind you.

Still better than Australia.