jr

Reread

>>8951112
yeah i figured this would be the answer. just not a short book.

>>8951052
its overrated

look who paid for it

>>8951131
You're 70 pages in

>>8951153
explain. who paid for it?

>>8951052
You're supposed to be filling the blanks while advancing. Don't worry, the further you get, the more you'll understand. It's not that difficult once you start tying all the pieces.

>>8951052
you are a total pleb. this book has like 8 different characters all with unique personalities. what is there to even get lost about. everything is laid out straight up for you. this isn't some metaphorical shit to decipher.

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Just try to have fun with it. J R is a very funny book with great characters, and if I assure you if you keep at it things will make more sense.

>>8951153
are you saying because rockefeller gave money towards it it's overrated?

What's important about the narrative in J R is that it is a "flow" of information rather than discrete blocks of scenes like most other novels. If you have a sense of who the characters are, the main issues facing Bast's inheritance/the businessmen's takeover of the school/J R's trading and company building, then you should be good. It's supposed to be disorienting. You're supposed to feel like you're barely getting enough information to understand what's going on, because this is how the characters feel too. You can spend your time trying to go into the minutia of economics and corporate law that explains why things are happening (most of which happens "off camera"), but this is better to do after you finish the novel, teebeehache. First time reading it, you're just along for the ride.

Best online resource is this: http://www.williamgaddis.org/jr/