It's here.

>>7689622
infinitely shitty cover

>>7689622
>he fell for it!

DUDE NOTES LMAO

>>7689624
>>7689634
>>7689641
Nice contratian edgy attitude! Youre so cy nical and ironic XD

>>7689622

Please let us know OP how it is, in particular how the (I'm assuming) new Intro is and whatever else it might have added.

>>7689655
you can read a part of the introduction on some shitty website and it's hilariously retarded (and, unsurprisingly, a gushing fanboy wankfest).

>>7689655
>>7689634

My friend works at a bookshop and sent me this image; I don't have a copy yet

>>7689622
pretty shit cover, should have gotten the one with the clouds

just reminds me of office space desu

for someone who hasn't read wallace, are there any similarities between the two? like bureaucratic malaise and so on

>>7689622
>shit cover
>shit quote from a shit writer

appropriate

>>7689654
>contrarian

Yeah the book is really enjoyable, you got me

>>7689673
>are there any similarities between the two?

No. This cover has nothing to do with what's written in the book.

>>7689622
So much wasted paper.

This book is an environmental disaster.

At least buy the e-book version if you're going to slog through this POS.

>>7689622
The quote is the most horrendous part of the cover.

at least its better then that shitty white one with the stripes

>>7689654
you can't pretend like that's a good cover

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I like seeing new covers to this book even if they aren't always good. I can take a really harsh cynical approach and say it's biting the meem about IJ being a studious effort that increased my sticky note budget 10x (xD) but I like the colors.

My personal fav is the BR edition just cause it looks so cool and the image itself isn't entirely unrelated. It's a bit modernish.

Zadie is such audience pussy

>>7689673
>like bureaucratic malaise and so on

The Pale King is all about that

I like the quote. It's very sincere.

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Quick, if i purchase the hardcover version on amazon ($21 I think) will I get the good cover (as in pic related)

>>7689835
You would. I see that one in stores and I'm p sure that's the only US hardcover edition and has always been.

>>7689673
Read his short story The Soul is Not a Smithy, and then listen to the interview about it.

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zadie who

>>7689794
>grasa infinita

>>7689624
>>7689634
>>7689641
>>7689672
>>7689679

You can't seriously prefer the generic clouds cover. Shit looks like a fucking aircraft manual.

>>7689924
What an original comparison!

>>7689931
Doesn't make it not true, faggot.

>>7689924

Even David himself hated the clouds cover

>>7690001
which one though?

not bad
nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/everything-about-everything-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest-at-20.html

>>7689622
I'm so cheap I might buy that one edition that doesn't even have clouds

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>not getting the better one

>>7690384
not making your own cover in paint and gluing it on

>>7690397
>not printing the novel out at home and binding the book yourself

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Why do these publishers have no taste? How is this not the winner.

>>7690406
>not making the paper yourself

>>7690419
Less that the publishers have no taste, and more the buying public doesn't. The cover is purely marketing.

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worst cover and title coming through

>>7690419
That's fucking horrible.

>>7690406
i hate all the covers and my dad knows bookbinding so i might just do this

>>7690592
UN ENDLICHER spASS

>>7690419
Because graphic designers are mostly idiots.

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my bookstore has the hardcover and paperback, but where can I get this one? I want all three of the good covers

>>7690419
>publishers are the ones with no taste
>posts gimmicky cover

>>7691213
c'mon mang fight the materialism

>>7691226
I collect records, it's already too late for me. i like things

>>7691213
sad-act

>>7689622
So what else do they send you with the English major starter kit?

>>7689654
There's nothing contrarian about it, everyone agrees that is one shitty cover

>>7690592
>END
>ASS

Fucking Germans. Everything about this is awful

>>7691444
>ASS DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

When will /lit/ end its embarrassing love affair with this over-praised piece of puffery?

>>7691482
That's not how memes work

>>7689898
>ser americano
>engordar

What's it about?

>>7690384

>with a new foreword by Tom Bissell

Fucking kill me now. Bissell is the biggest shitty hack writer there is.

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>>7690592
I have this version

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>bought pic related because its the only edition they sell here
>ugly cover
>quotes all over
>spine gives me cancer
>thick as fuck, hard to handle
>text is so small that you need a microscope to even attempt reading it
>pages feel like shit, ugly colour

Damn I wish I could have bought >>7691213
It's split up into 2 volumes so it's not a brick.

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>>7689622
i guess you had to bought this version.
per price its maybe expensive but at least it dosent look like some 25 qt from art school did the cover for her semester project.

>>7692633
Where do you live f͏͏a͏͏m?

>>7692725
UK, I looked in all the bookstores in town and there was only this edition.

Also this is the only one they sell on amazon that isn't £20+ and used.

>>7692740
Why don't you buy books from bookdepository? They're pretty cheap, and they're based in the UK so it'll come pretty fast to you (I'd assume).

I live in Australia and it's where I get all my books from instead of spending a fortune at the local bookstore.

>>7692746
http://www.bookdepository.com/Infinite-Jest/9780316066525

fuck

>>7692751
Pretty cheap, huh? I can't thank the anon that told me about the site enough.

>>7692756
ehh fuck it, if i ever feel like rereading IJ i will donate my edition to someone and buy it

brb resisting materialism

thanks anon

>>7689835
thats horrible, yellow text and sky is the GOAT

Hijacking this thread to ask what the best place to start with DFW is. Brief Interviews? Or should I just jump straight into Infinite Jest?

>>7690419
That looks tacky af.

>>7689622
Terrible blurb quote to be used on the cover

>>7692887
Essays. Either A Supposedly Fun Thing etc. or Consider the Lobster.

Who the fuck is Zadie Smith and what right does she have to praise Wallace's legacy?

>>7693035
Show some respect, she banged him fair and square

>>7692887
Infinite Jest is his most accessible book despite the length and the whole endnotes gimmick. Though if you want to get a feel for what his writing is like before jumping into a 1000 page book, I'd say google some of his essays/articles like "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" I think the original harper's article version is floating around as a pdf.

>>7693032
Oblivion is the best introduction to him, period.

>>7689622
Danny Forrest Walterson was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

>>7693346
No. Oblivion has some of his most obtuse and ultra-pretentious stuff.

>>7693374
shh, don't mess with the meme thread.

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>>7689898
>grasa
>s
Are you blind? Or just american?

>>7693337
DFW and his other work aside, how is "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" on its own?

>>7693460

It's very good. Read the expanded version in the book instead of the Harper's article, if you can:

http://mark.levengood.people.cpcc.edu/HIS132/LessonDocs/Wallace1.pdf
http://mark.levengood.people.cpcc.edu/HIS132/LessonDocs/Wallace2.pdf

>>7693490
In that case I'll just read the book. Thanks.

>>7692785
you are so fucking wrong. even the titled is cropped.
>inb4 that was intentional

>>7693490
i read the one in the essays collection. Is that the full version?

>>7693599

Yes.

>>7691173
Would pay you to make me one and send it to me tbqhfamilia

>people trying hard to shit on that cover
I mean its not great, but its better than just a picture of a fucking cloud

I think the eye one is the best as far as A E S T H E T I C S go. Though honestly as long as the text itself is all there it doesn't matter much. Someone mentioned that one of them was split into two volumes and I think there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>7689622
doesn't make a difference.

>>7689728
seriously that quote fucking blows