Why does nobody talk about this?

>>9627868

I don't think many have read it. I did. It's okay but very much feels like it was written by a young DFW. I remember being quite bored for a good 100-page section in the middle where it feels as if the story is going absolutely nowhere. None of the characters are compelling or fleshed-out but it is occasionally very funny, especially when it pokes fun at them for not being flesh-out or compelling. Like pretty much everything I've read of DFW it succeeds in detailing the small, precise, or trivial details of things.

>>9627868
Why don't you talk about it?

>DFW

Dropped.

Cuz it's pretty shitty and feels like an overly educated college student wrote it. The antichrist could only have been created by a nerdy fuck who smoked his first blunt and felt badass

I didn't really get it. Was ok, though.

>>9627868
Because the patrician choice is TPK

>>9628011
>>9628011
With me only having read one DFW short story, what do people mean by this complaint? I hear it said often that he reads like he's had an expensive college lit education, but in what ways does that show through/how is it a flaw, compared to other writers like Joyce and Gaddis who pack their work with esoteric references and are considered great?

I didn't get the ending, was he really trying to eat the building?

>>9628330
This anon gets it

well like everything else written by that incompetent hack (except his suicide note) it wasn't very good

I thought it was great. It reminded me a lot of the Crying of Lot 49, or maybe because I read them in sequence but I enjoyed both.

>>9628442
Has his suicide note been made public?

Because I heard it's set in Cleveland, and God himself could not write that shithole out of its hopelessness.