infinite jest

My copy just arrived. What should I expect?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Expect your hands to sweat

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      classic

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    idk, i have not read it. this still doesn't stop me from mocking people who do. homosexual.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymousn

    Why on earth would you want to approach a text through a haze of memey IQfy opinions? Just read page 1 and keep on going.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just had a flip through, seems intimidating. Any tips?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymousn

      It probably seems intimidating because you're flipping through trying to extract an abstract concept of the book from random decontextualized scraps instead of just linearly and attentively reading it on its own terms like you're supposed to. Do you have attention-span and procrastination problems, or what's going on that's preventing you from just reading it instead of making a thread about it? Any book, by its nature, isn't suited to a manageable bite-sized consumable concept: you need to dive in to the thick of it and embrace the indeterminacy. You lazy diabolical 666 motherfricker.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        just threw it up on the bookshelf, I'm sure I'll get around to it eventually

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        dam bro u saw the reply u just got hit with? u effort posted to a shitposter, homie what r u doin?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Infinite Jest is very manageable. It’s important to remember that in stark contrast to the myriad other overblown and erudite ‘postmodern tomes’ that likely inspired it (think The Recognitions, Gravity’s Rainbow, Giles Goat-Boy, Ratner’s Star), DFW attempted to communicate some very genuine and very heartfelt emotions with the book and understand when and when not to play games with the reader.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The psychotically depressed person x10, the depressed but largely functional person x100 and Mario.

        It is really interesting how he manages to to use the postmodern character as tool of author so effectively, they are still very much his tools and on examination of them we see them to be rather flat and everything about them being rather convenient, and yet he still manages that sort of emotional connection which is generally lacking in the postmodernists.

        That said, no one can give that emotional kick in the balls like the postmodernists, you just never see it coming because by the time it happens that part of you has largely shut down. Roger and Jessica in GR are my favorite example of this, that one tiny little thread of humanity buried in it all, frick the war, they are in love. Then it gets taken away and it still hurts and still makes me angry.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        yep, that's pretty much hysterical realism in a nutshell
        I'm not even 1/3rd through my copy and already I've seen incredibly nuanced social commentary
        been liking it more than GR too

        Once you adjust yourself to Wallace's writing style it's fine and the only thing I was really confused by was how the new calender worked in his timeline

        there's a small list of the years about 200 pages in, at least all the ones relevant to the plot

        https://i.imgur.com/bpESp1j.jpg

        My copy just arrived. What should I expect?

        the need to flip to the endnotes FREQUENTLY. I have made use of a post-it-note to help with this...

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Gravity's Rainbow is incredibly emotionally resonant and really not that post-modern at all. People who say this stuff clearly haven't read it

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not postmodern at all? But It’s the archetypal postmodern novel?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't think you know what post modernism is.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Read it as an epub because flipping back and forth to the footnotes is exhausting but they're unskippable. Also most of the steeply-Marathe dialogs can be skimmed through if they bore you.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >most of the steeply-Marathe dialogs
        anon, those are more important than the footnotes and there is not even a comparison.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          They are important to the plot which is why you need to at least skim them or read a summary but they're thematically redundant and mostly dull.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, they are vital to theme and provide most of the context for the novel.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >flipping back and forth to the footnotes is exhausting
        If you're a baby maybe. It's as simple as using two bookmarks

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The dirst book mark is a hassle because you'll be constantly moving it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >flipping back and forth to the footnotes is exhausting
        but bro the back-and-forth is symbolic of a tennis match dudeeee it's super deep and meta bro please believe me

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I thought the end notes were symbolic of someone flipping through tv channels. Seems far more thematically relevant.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      try flipping backwards as well as forwards

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The “Call of the Crocodile” of its generation.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Once you adjust yourself to Wallace's writing style it's fine and the only thing I was really confused by was how the new calender worked in his timeline

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Infinite zest

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Infinite Sweat

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    All you need to know is that the title comes from Shakespeare: "There is inifinite jest, but not for us."

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What should I expect?
    To be bored to death.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    No longer being able to wait for a microwave to finish without contemplating suicide for the entire duration

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Something sure smells good.

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you put it in the microwave, it will get warm and produce a pleasant smell. Winter has passed, but it serves good fodder for the fireplace. As for myself, I carefully sliced the tome into two pieces: one half I carry around with me to use as hygenic paper in public bathroom in case none is available (which is often the case). The other half I use to clean up small spills at home when no paper towels are available. When winter arrives, I order several more copies.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    an endless joke I presume

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >and but

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >and but SO
      The state of IQfy.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >but and so and but so
        filthy casual

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I had laughed to the point of crying when I came to that one the first time.

          i just finished this recently after like nine months of on-and-off reading and despite the fact that it felt extremely unrewarding with how meandering and directionless the "plot" was i have the inexplicable urge to reread it instantly under some idea that i will "get it" on a thematic and narrative with context of the entire piece because i had the same thing happen to me with twin peaks: the return

          You are growing out of your plotgay phase, DFW is good for that and he wrote The Pale King for people like you but he did not reduce it to pandering to people growing out of their plotgay stage.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I had laughed
            Not sure where that "had" came from, lets just call it providence.

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i just finished this recently after like nine months of on-and-off reading and despite the fact that it felt extremely unrewarding with how meandering and directionless the "plot" was i have the inexplicable urge to reread it instantly under some idea that i will "get it" on a thematic and narrative with context of the entire piece because i had the same thing happen to me with twin peaks: the return

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    A man who read the Pynchmeister, a-and did his best to reach the Pynch’s lofty heights, but failed, natch. Many such cases. Sad.

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sweaty Palms
    seriously how do I stop this it only happens with reading proper literature

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm the guy you bought it off on Craigslist, fair warning pages 100-125 are completely crusted with my semen so you'll have to carefully pull them apart or just skip that section entirely

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i dont read it yet

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