Infinite Jest

Shut the fuck up.

OP you are a piece of shit

he's critical of Irony in IJ, through Mario, who is a mental retard. but to answer your question OP, no you don't, just jump in, it's a blast.

>>9300070
People overstate DFW's reaction to irony. It's important in IJ but the book is not solely or even mainly about that.

>>9300117
By the end I was a bit sick of the references to Socrates, tbqh

>>9300070
Jesus man just fucking read it, it's not complicated it just takes commitment to pull through the whole thing
that's it

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I was lambasted by my stoner aesthetics lecturer for being an english/philosophy major and not having read Infinite Jest. Its a small lecture, literally just the two of us. How long does it take to read that hunk of gunk? Afterwards he patted me on the shoulder and told me not to be afraid of it.

>>9300070
You're a member of Internet culture. You have such an ingrained sense of irony you hardly even recognize it anymore. It's like your heartbeat. So no, you don't have to ready any of the ironists before IJ. You've been doing that your whole life.

>>9300212
lel

DFW taught at a school called POMO-na. You can't make this shit up. He was a living fucking meme.

>>9302623
Postmodern North America