/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11694861]

How many pages before you tapped out?
282 for me.

[Anonymous No.11694880]

Yeah, just read Borges instead.

[Anonymous No.11694889]

>>11694861
i skipped the last two long footnotes

[Anonymous No.11694918]

>>11694861

0, because I knocked it out and always knew to avoid the meme.

Tell me, though, just how bad was it? I bet it was great.

[Anonymous No.11694937]

>>11694918
Its alright

[Anonymous No.11694939]

>>11694889
About Pemulis? Why would you do that? Those were some of the better footnotes

[Anonymous No.11694941]

>>11694861
I was told it would become good after the first 300 pages, so I read 301.

It didn't become good.

[Anonymous No.11695027]

>>11694861
981, + footnotes

[Anonymous No.11695044]

>>11695027
the patrician answer

[Anonymous No.11695078]

>>11694918
chapter to chapter, it was good
but bigger picture, I was lost

[Anonymous No.11695104]

1079, why even start if you have no intention of finishing

[Anonymous No.11695118]

i read the whole book and yea that pretty much did it for me. i now enjoy trashing it at every opportunity with the grit and reasuredness of personal experience

[Anonymous No.11695181]

>>11694889
All footnotes are essential

[Anonymous No.11695191]

Did you guys read the 300-something footnote (about the train jumping game, whose (the train jumping game's) name eludes me at the moment) when it was referred to in an earlier footnote, or did you wait until the actual reference to it?

[Anonymous No.11695193]

>>11695191
Sorry I thought this board had spoilers.

[Anonymous No.11695834]

>>11694889
>>11694939
>>11695027
>>11695181
>>11695191
>mfw they're endnotes

[Anonymous No.11697352]

>>11694861
1096 bitch

[Anonymous No.11697411]

>>11695191
I read it when it both times

[Anonymous No.11697598]

>>11695193
>>11695193
>>11695193
It does. That's one of my favorite end-notes lol

[Anonymous No.11697639]

It was one of the first books I read when I "got back into reading". I haven't been able to get past 100 since then.

[Anonymous No.11698474]

its not even that difficult, OP. its a fun book. maybe you're just a fucking normie and dont have enough autism for it

[Anonymous No.11698486]

>>11695181
Even the one about the Coatlicue Complex?

[Anonymous No.11698527]

>>11694861
Can we stop with this fucking meme? It's getting boring.

[Anonymous No.11698544]

>>11694880
Even worse

[Anonymous No.11698569]

>>11698486
>implying that's not the best one

[Anonymous No.11698572]

1 sentence

[Anonymous No.11698577]

>>11698544
If you can't handle Wallace nor Borges you might as well declare yourself the king of the plebs and then kys.

[Anonymous No.11699211]

>by David Foster Wallace
this is where I decided this book was trash.

[Anonymous No.11699239]

for those not in on the meme, it's not actually a difficult book

[Anonymous No.11699259]

for those not in on the meme, it's not actually a good book

[Anonymous No.11699572]

Almost there, page 850. Where did the meme of this book being trash come from? It’s not the greatest but I don’t think it deserves so much hate

[Anonymous No.11699598]

>>11695834
speaking of endnotes, when is his wife gonna release it

[Anonymous No.11699663]

>>11699572
/lit/ contrarians

[Anonymous No.11699672]

>>11694861
550
I got memed hard.

[Anonymous No.11699691]

>>11699572
once retards took over /lit/ and drove out the first peoples they had to set about destroying the native culture

[Anonymous No.11699717]

>>11699572
It's not that it's bad or he's a bad writer, but he's performing a gimmick, and a good gimmick, a unique one, but also one that I think seems a lot cooler to younger people but that one realizes is ultimately pretty vapid and uber gen x irony bleh the older they get. But I'm sure plenty of people here hate it for no reason as well.

[Anonymous No.11699747]

>>11695104
It's the /lit/ badge of honor

[Anonymous No.11699762]

>>11699717
What exactly is this "gimmick"

[Anonymous No.11699793]

>>11699762
Too cool for everything 90s gen x irony bro for whom drugs offer a noble escape from the oppressive capitalist culture that just sees us as like consumer units man so let's just retreat into micro-observations and half-baked philosophizing about how there's no point to anything.

[Anonymous No.11700157]

>>11699793
How can you write this and not immediately kill yourself afterwards? Please tell me you have some plans friend

[Anonymous No.11700163]

Can someone explain why the first page is written like it's by an edgy 15 year old white male? Is it just some POV thing or what

(dropped after one page)

[Anonymous No.11700173]

>>11700163
Hamlet
>Who's there?
Infinite Jest
>I am

[Anonymous No.11701282]

>>11699793
>drugs offer a noble escape
Clearly did not read it

[Anonymous No.11702632]

>>11694861
i tapped out around there once, like 2013, got back to it in 2014, tapped out again, and then got back, tapped out again around 700 (following gately's smashing of the dude's skull against the windshield etc.), then got back to it this year and am on 800something rn.

this bitch can't finish me

[Anonymous No.11702744]

>>11698577

Not the guy, but if you have read Borges in Spanish, particularly in the context of Latin American literature, his prose is almost insufferable, unrealistic and incessantly verbose.

Infinite Jest is just as annoying as the aimlessness and incoherency present in the whole lot of post-modernist literature.

[Anonymous No.11702878]

>>11699211
but I like almost all the stories in Oblivion

[Anonymous No.11703354]

>>11702744
Fuck off RETARD

[Anonymous No.11703376]

>>11702744
I really don't get the Borges thing. Prose is flat, stories are weird or boring. I'm getting the feeling that it's one of the few things literary-minded South Americans who crippled their intellectual output by poisoning their gene pool with Indio DNA can feel proud of.

[Anonymous No.11703394]

>>11703376
Imaginate por un instante ser tan idiota como el tipo que escribió el post citado. Qué deprimente.

[Anonymous No.11703407]

>>11703394
Hablo Español, punta. Viví en los paises de caca donde adquiriste tu cacapiel DNA.

[Anonymous No.11703424]

>>11703407
Jajajaj, sí, se nota que tenés una maestría admirable de la lengua de Cervantes. Me pregunto si tal maestría habrá tenido que ver con tu dudoso juicio sobre la prosa de Borges. Qué boludeces que hay que leer en este tablón, Dios mío.

[Anonymous No.11703433]

against better judgement I read the whole thing twice

[Anonymous No.11703445]

>>11703424
Meh, not worth my time. But I'm only responding now to mention that it tickled my jimmies to realize how much better "shitskin" sounds when translated into Spanish.

[Anonymous No.11703875]

1081

[Anonymous No.11703955]

2304

[Anonymous No.11703979]

>>11694918
>Doesn't read a book because some sperglorg on the internet say it is bad
>Avoid the meme