Why did you drop Infinite Jest? For me it wasn't Wallace's

good decision senpai

read the recognitions isntead

>>8797196
this

i stopped IJ just after the mental hospital scene. after experiencing them myself six separate times, i was so put off by his inept attempt to convey the scenario, and replaced it with the recognitions, which had such a deafening climax that it outweighed a vast majority of books read before and after.

wasn't that the class on involutions tho

>>8797211
I stopped it midway through that shit for basically the same reason, the book was already pissing me off by that point and that was just the final straw though.

It wasn't even a good kind of pissed off, it wasn't an engaging kind of anger, it was more of a contemptuous kind of anger.

To my infinite shame, I finished IJ ... but what bothered me about the writing most was it felt like the author tried too hard to smarten up poor writing by overuse of his thesaurus. It didn't make it more interesting language, it became horribly pretentious

Wasn't the hardest class there like "nonlinear geometry" or something? His Mom was the English teacher, no? Wasn't she just a grammar-nazi, so the class was satire of English professors?

>>8797194
English was difficult for Hal, right? Or was it difficult for the entire school?

Two things come to mind. Hal's mother is an English-nazi and somewhat ran the school I think? Also Hal had difficulty expressing himself emotionally, honestly. He excelled at technical studies, but interpreting a story can take creativity and emotion, which Hal had difficulty with.

>>8797194
Oprah-lite? are you sure that's the wording you were looking for?

>>8797756
Like most of the thinkers on this board, OP has taken memes too seriously in lieu of any intelligent opinion of his own. That's mimetics on /lit/ in a nutshell for you. Imitated intelligence.

>>8797756
>>8797194
oh damn OP, sorry, I wrote that before I finished reading your post--I wouldn't have quibbled about a single phrase if I had, because your whole post is shit, and this thread is shit

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>>8797738
See pic.

>>8797194
Good thing you didn't actually know DFW then. He made his university-level english classes ($42,000 a year tuition alone) read Stephen King.

Isn't 'grande' a big?

>>8798215
Starbucks logic: small = tall / medium = grande / big = ventidadoodadi

Serious question, is the bad writing and horrible endnote format part of the joke? I've been wondering if the book itself is a satire on over-achievers/academics. If not then it's just badly written.

>>8797769
rofl

>>8798218
In the US do they use that horrendous syrup shit in p much everything?

>>8797194
>going to Starbucks ever