DUDE MONEY LMAO

>>8346198
You haven't actually read it, have you?

>>8346198

great post

When does it really start getting good?

I love what Gaddis ive read, but J R is just a bit dry the first 40 pages in

>>8346217
I'm on page 37 and think it's hilarious

>>8346231
It's lacking a lot of the personality of Carpenter's Gothic and Agape Agapē

Part of my problem may just be the amount of characters in such a small amount of time. Much more busy

>>8346217
I forgot the exact page, but the school meeting interspersed with Bast's filmed "lesson" on Mozart and some other school TV stuff was the first part that really got the ball rolling.

>>8346237
just keep reading you faggot. I won't pass judgment on a book until at least the halfway mark.

>>8346237
You're only 40 pages in. It's got plenty of personality. It just takes a bit more time for everything to really take shape because it's nowhere near as compact as the two you mentioned

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake

>>8346240
That whole scene was just real meh to me.

Maybe this one just isn't for me

>>8346263
lol nigga you 40 pages into a 700 page book.

>>8346271
Bruh if i'm 100 pages into any book and it's not doing it, i'm not really slagging through the rest

That's just silly

>>8346277
dog you have to at least get into the conflict before you drop some sheeit. maybe even get to the climax nig

>>8346281
I feel

I love my man Gaddis so i'll keep going. Here's hopin'

>>8346263
Read it up to page 285. If it's still not doing anything for you by that point it's definitely not for you.

Also you should read A Frolic of His Own if you liked Carpenter's Gothic.

>>8346255
I'd never seen that copypasta before.

>>8346237
It starts to flow really well after JR and Ed Bast's relationship develops: a delightful deluge of super cinematic satirical ooze.

Very much like a Robert Altman/Luis Buñuel literary hybrid—or a legitimately funny Linklater flick with Network-era Sid Lumet DNA. Also very Kubrickian in its extreme uncharitable yet subtly subtle approach to cultural criticism.

Literarily, think: subdued Cervantes, a pinch of Pynchon, Joycean in its structural experimentalism, like the best of Nathaniel West, and/or cybernetic entropic maelstrom of (mis)communication between illusorily commanding forces known as 'people.'

Replying to several anons randomly to catapult conversation:

>>8346237
>>8346263

>>8346413
I honestly don't see how someone couldn't like this book. after the little kids practice the rhinegold shit and J R actually knows his shit and steals the gold lmao, I was hooked. then right after that is the bast Mozart shit. lmaooooooo. I like this a lot more than the recognitions . the recognitions got really boring at parts and the last quarter of it dragged on and on. does that ever happen in J R?

>>8346322
It's not pasta it's from The Recognitions

>>8346255
damn, this is Gaddis' satire? It's barely above a clever 4chan post.

>>8347379
it's not you fucking idiot

>>8347379
it's a reddit meme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/356ilm/ive_already_sent_her_and_the_agent_who_represents/cr1lq3n

lrn2backtrace

>>8347389
how do I know Gaddis didn't post that

he wrote some edgy shit in the Village Voice too

Is the font used in this book like what is shown in the cover?

>>8347588
No

>>8347502
Gaddis died in 1998, 7 years before the existence of plebbit

is this book really about dude money lmao? what did he mean by that?

>>8346277
>thing r/books say

>>8346413
Is this post a joke? I can't tell.

>>8346277

>Reading for entertainment.

Fuck off back to Plebbit.

>>8347978
allegedly...

>>8348009
It's written in a diarrhetic slurry of buzzwords but he must've at least read a summary if he knew that the interactions between Bast and J R played a major role in it.