Has a piece of literature ever made you feel second hand embarrassment

>>9655569

I bet you give really great blowjobs, Anon, you sure know how to worship a cock.

>>9655564
He wrote the novel that he wanted to write and did his best. He didn't placate to any particular audience (especially established, traditional or classical literary academics).
It was just another novel, it had some merits and it had some weaknesses just as every work does.
No need to freak out

>>9655569
Wallace, is that you?
You know that "reverse engineered the novel" doesn't mean "going in reverse".
I think the word you looking for is "undo all progress".

I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."

>>9655601
>video-game term.. teenagers these days... "overpowered"
You know that people over 50 use that video-game term?
Surfaced when comparing weapons in various point&click games like Unreal and Quake.
It became popular 20 years ago with games like Ultima online and Everquest. Later on adopted by World of Warcraft.

Not sure to what extent it exists in teenagers vocabulary but a crapload of really old people use it too.

>>9655569
I always tear up at the end

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>>9655569
>>9656607
>tfw this pasta is only a fantasy

>>9657346
Wasn't it originally posted on Reddit somewhere?