>ITT: Books that are impossible to "spoil".
Any serious book
>>8076936
4
Any other choice retarded.
>not posting th better cover
3 will always be the IJ cover for me, I wish they had just updated it for the 20th anniversary, which is so, so bad, it looks like a malcolm gladwell book, not infinite fucking jest. Where's the blue sky and giant words? IJ is supposed to have an epic fucking cover, not clip art on a white background. sheesh. and yes im autistic.
>>8076953
1 is nice too.
>>8076944
my english teacher would always spoil books for us, and if anyone complained he would denounce reading for plot.
kind of a pretentious douche seeing as we were reading basically young adult novels
>>8076958
the first 3 were all great!
I think they chose the 20th anniversary cover submission they chose because it goes along with the recent dfw books
Look at the US covers for consider the lobster, this is water, the pale king, dfw reader - all white as fuck, so maybe they chose it cause it went along with their scheme.
>>8076936
3 is by far the best. 1 is good too though.
>>8076936
How are people not put off by that massive font in 3?
Tacky af.
Pretty much the majority of postmodern books can't be spoiled.
Take Don DeLillo or Pynchon for example (unless we're talking about V).
>>8076963
Oh my good god. I assumed shitheads like the ones on /lit/ grew out of that kind of thinking.
>>8077042
How can V. be spoiled? V's identity? It seemed pretty obvious early on
>>8077125
They never find V....
ulysses i guess
although its exciting to see what he does with the form throughout the book, like it would be awesome to just stumble upon circe without knowing beforehand but that sounds impossible
>>8077037
>getting put off by cover font
>>8076974
the new cover design is alsocheaper to print
>>8077308
interesting, didnt think of that
>>8076951
Not to derail the thread, but what a semen demon
>>8077317
shes so out of my league that 0 blood goes to my dick because it knows it's not happening
Actually, ij is pretty spoilerable... the reader is tasked with assembling the story, putting together what happens after the ending, as well as solving a number of ambiguities and mysteries throughout the book, so yeah, you can relieve somebody of a lot of the work (and fun) of reading infinite jest by answering the questions the books tasks the reader with solving.
I have 8 but 3 is my favorite cover. The font gives a feeling of massiveness that the othethers don't. Dat neon color and one cloud too.
>>8076944
This
8 is the best. They're mostly just pictures of clouds. Fucking boring and shit design. The eye is the most interesting
>>8076936
where's post it edition?
easily 1, although maybe only because i have such fond memories of tackling the library copy
the spanish cover is fucking stellar too
>>8076952
meu nego
>>8076952
>não lendo no original
>>8077324
>she
>>8076936
>Not having this one as a choice on the chart
>>8077137
What. The V Stencil was after was Victoria
>>8079007
>nothing to do with the book
>reference to some bitch who needed to mark it with pretty colors to stay interested
>>8076936
I have 3 and just noticed that "E" in "INFINITE" is barely on my cover :(
This has to be a mistake or something.
Someone who's actually read it, why the clouds?
>>8079007
>Zadie Smith sucking DFW dick even after he's dead
>>8079140
Take this down
>>8076936
I guess I'm the only one who loves #5.
If pressed I would have to say #3 is superior, but I've grown so used to it I love the freshness #5 brings while still being conceptually linked unlike the utter shit that is 8.
>>8077142
Why does no one on /lit/ ever mention that disturbingly awesome novel?
I assume because tl;dr
>>8076936
why the clouds?
>>8076936
1 > 3 > 2 > 4 > 5 > 7 > 8 > 6
>>8079344
Who is this?
you are all making me feel bad about getting the 20th anniversary edition
>>8080594
Cover is bad, but the content (errors fixed, printing mishaps corrected) makes it the best version
>>8079124
From what I heard, it's just what the publisher chose. Even DFW didn't know why. What cover would you make? A dad with his head in a microwave wouldn't sell well. The only slightly viable cover would be a tennis court but that'd still ignore most of the characters, and Don Gately is one of the best characters.
>>8080618
That's pretty much why I bought it, I figured it would
>>8080685
Just change the cover, dude.
Who /4/ here
>>8082016
Yup. I've blacked out the foreword, though. But I like it. More than any cloudy design, that's for sure.
>>8076936
Catch-22
>>8079007
actually the best
>>8079029
> Nothing to do with the book
> Missing the obvious reference to the importance and sheer amount of footnotes
>>8081376
>change the cover
tell me your secrets
>>8082469
You print out the new cover and just glue it over the one you have.
>>8083598
That sounds like it would look awful, does that actually look presentable? is it durable?
>>8080636
SPOILERS, JESUS
>>8076936
Just a picture of Jason Segel as DFW on the cover
>>8083898
yeah, it can actually look nice
better if you dont do it yourself, but go to some printing store where they do that kind of stuff
they can remove the old cover and just glue the new one and it wont be noticeable
>>8083945
That's pretty cool, I'm not sure if I hate the cover that much though
Honestly like 5.
>>8076936
1) The Stranger by Albert Camus.
2) number 8
>>8084112
5's good, I've never seen it outside this image though, what country was it published in?
>>8079344
i think its a reference to hals discomfort with the colour blue and dislike for heights
>there are seriously anon who wouldn't choose 3 first
ur giving me the howling fantods ova here
>>8079329
I'm ~300 pages in and it's just about the best thing I've ever read
>>8076936
I'd love cover 1 or 3 but the bookshops round here only have 4 or something so bad it isn't even on there.
>>8079007
>>8084584
This is the one the other bookshop has. I fucking hate it.
Pic related is the best cover
>>8077085
I mean, you should get blistering enjoyment from other aspects of a book too, but that's no reason not to enjoy the plot as well. It doesn't matter how nice the interior decoration is if you live in a a run down trailer with a leaky roof.
>>8084561
Yeah it takes really long, but it's absolutely worth the effort
>>8076952
Is the portuguese translation even good?
>>8079124
It's the blue sky wallpaper in the waiting room outside Charles Tavis's office at Enfield Tennis Academy. Hal, Pemulis, Kittenplan and Axford are waiting to meet with him after the Eschaton Game around p. 450 i think. Idk why dfw thought this had so much significance. Could also be a reference to when the Antitois brother who gets killed by the AFR like transcends out of his body and flies back to Quebec. Both events occur near the middle of the novel.
>>8076936
2 is the best
4 is the edition I have
7 interests me
>>8076953
3 looks decent tbqh but 7 is preferable
>>8076936
Three is by far the best, but I'm stuck with four. It was either that or the bad version of the 20th anniversary edition.
>>8088315
or you could've just ordered the third one
it still exists, you know
>>8086942
the original isn't, so I assume any translations aren't either
>>8076936
3, but someone will probably attack me and say I should kill myself or something for choosing three. Someone once told me to kill myself for not having my clock on military time in one of those stupid fucking threads where you post your desk. I feel like everyone here are a bunch of mean men in their late 20's. Fuck you.
>>8079344
The sky is infinite
>>8079344
Do people actually find this attractive?
>>8088328
I didn't ask about the quality of the story, I asked about the quality of the translation, a good translation of a horrible book can be done, do you even read?
