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ITT: books people got for you that you didn't ask for. /lit/ tells you if you should read it
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>>9596881
If you're the kind of person who would enjoy wallace and infinite jest you probably would already know it and be out right now buying copies of his books to give to co-workers and acquaintances without their solicitation teling them it will change their life.
or you're a normal person. https://www.reddit.com/user/jeremy1122/comments/?sort=top
>You don't need a magic sewer cover to teleport, my friend.
>Have you heard of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace?
>It is the greatest and most complex novel ever written, and also the most accessible. It is simultaneously postmodernism's densest star and also a great children's book. How Wallace achieved this is unknown at this point in history, but since Wallace's death in 2008, more and more scholars are dropping everything to pursue the book's mysteries. It's not uncommon nowadays for entire English departments to be devoted to studying Infinite Jest. These professors don't teach any classes; they just write on yellow paper.
>How can a book be so instructive and so entertaining simultaneously? We don't know. It's possible Wallace never meant for us to find out. If so, we'll be forever in the dark. I choose not to believe that. I choose to believe that with all the light Wallace has brought into the world, transforming people both intellectually and spiritually with his timeless commencement speech, that Wallace designed the novel's secrets to be ultimately discoverable.
>For now, all we can do is wait.
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>>9596897
I already do that, but I've never read Infinite Jest
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Idk why I was given this.
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I really dislike that new cover.
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I have a feeling /lit/ will say no, judging by the influx of edgy underage users in the past year
>>9596881
read it. it's good
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>>9597656
coates shows the danger of monoculture, growing up in a completely black environment and then going to a HBCU really stunted his development both emotionally and intellectually, made me sad that this myopic douchebag is going to poison the minds of new youths with his shitty little worldview
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