Is Infinite Jest a meme or do people enjoy the writing unironically?

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>>9119868
This writing is not very good.

>>9119868

Hold on, how many pages do you usually get with a preview? I don't know why I've never taken advantage of that.

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>>9119891
Depends on the size of the book and the kindness of the publisher. I only got 30 pages for a sample of Lolita.

IJ has 1,100 pages of this stuff. Toddler or Tolstoy?

>>9119902

>I only got 30 pages for a sample of Lolita.

That's pretty good. I sometimes considering buying new books (ie Private Citizens) but hold off because I don't know how good they'll actually be. A 20-30 page preview would help a lot.

Sorry for going off-topic. I haven't read IJ but I find DFW to be pretty inconsistent. I love some of his short stories but found The Broom of the System to be a real drag.

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a very human conversation between two human individuals

>>9119913
Despite how shitty Apple software is, I always found Books was a decent app. Books by dead authors more than 75(?) years ago are free which is good.

>>9119868
it reads like John greens looking for Alaska

>>9119868
it's both you dip
the weird thing is that DFW was very much capable of beautiful prose (cf. "Forever Overhead" or "Peoria")
he was trying to do something with IJ that made the prose instead this weird chimera of naive pop culture regurgitation and postmodern irony bait
if you don't like it then you don't like it though
I won't fault you for that

>>9119868
>Is Infinite Jest a meme or do people enjoy the writing unironically?
Both, but those people are fucked in the head.

>>9119868
holy shit. there really is no discernible talent.

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>>9119868
>Title is literally Infinite Jest
>As in, unending joke reaching in all directions
>is this srs you guiz????

do you really read on a phone

>>9119868
His nonfiction is more enjoyable, IMO. Steer clear of his tennis stuff though. Try consider the lobster

>62.5%

Is this because the character's autistic, or is everything narrated this way?

>>9120531
The title of a book is never meta dude. The story might be considered a long joke in the main characters point of view but the writing style has nothing to do with it.

Wow this sucks.

I've only read very short excerpts and thought they were cherry picked and the book couldn't have been THAT bad. It's almost word salad. What the fuck?

>>9121493
The title of the book is always meta

>>9119916
kek

>>9119902
It's the best book I've ever read. I also read gravity's rainbow and V and some dostoevsky.
It's definately a book worth reading and after you're done reading it you'll probably want to read it again. Just try going with it, it has it's moments and pretty much every scene is memorable at the very least.

the hell? that legitimately looks like john green shit, all the memes make sense now

The writing is the way it is, in this case, because the narrator has mild autism, much like OP. The rest of the book is elegant.

>>9122613
never heard of john green and just read the synopsis for LFA, looks like its a shitty book anyway. no loss especially if it reads like these screenshots.

>>9119868
First day on /lit/ and this reads to me like the author was trying to be as much of an asshole to his readers as possible

I also think this would read far better if OP didnt read his shit like a vertical hotdog and had some god damn width to his pages

>>9121313
It's because the author was autistic. Does that implicitly make all of his characters autistic, or does it make them normies as interpreted by an autist? There's no right or wrong answer, it's just a choice in interpretation.

>>9119868
It's best qualities are a little more subtle than the not-too-subtle prose itself, there is a haunting quality to the book, a sort of desperation at being understood, that haunts and encourages rereads

>>9119868
ok. ok. wow. just... ok. just read the fucking book for yourself and if you don't like it put it down. holy shit you are fucking dense.

>>9120739
This. "A Supposedly Fun Thing," for instance, is a terrific romp.

Damn, literally no one in this thread shows signs of having actually read the book.

The opening chapter is written from the POV of Hal, who had been increasingly socially isolated and anxious for years for some reason, most likely the mold he ate as a child described in that chapter reacting to a high-strength MKULTRA-era hallucinogen he took later on. He had been this way for a very long time but it gets much worse following a particularly shitty year at Enfield for Hal.

Some DFW passages are pretty fucking obnoxious, but there's usually (USUALLY) a good reason for it.

literally 2deep4u