>ur gf sends this text
what do u do, /lit/?
I tell her she accidentally took a picture of the illuminati book and applaud her on buying catcher in the rye.
>>8107041
I'd say nice meme comma babe
>>8107041
Mirin 100% battery, also
>marry gf
>have kids and be the ultra-traditional, stoic father
>>8107041
wow that's a big leap from The Fault in our Stars
>tfw your copy still says "the author lives in California"
>>8107041
I'm redpilled and realize I don't need women to make myself feel good. You've been brainwashed by cultural Marxism. Women only want money and they know no loyalty or true love.
Let the redpill set you free. The only love that is worth anything is the love to the white race and the deus vult movement.
Get over yourself, you're cucked by a degenerate culture to think women are worthwhile. Fucking loser
>>8107046
what does this mean
my ex, when i got her to read it, came on hot with this sociological analysis that was all "proto-fascist propaganda". you fuck her while explaining Orin's pickup techniques.
>>8107041
Complement her comma use.
>>8107063
(you)
>>8107067
compliment*
Nobody here believes me when I say that the 20th anniversary edition looks like a fucking girly YA novel. Now this is proof.
>>8107084
Infinite Jest is a fucking girly YA novel lel
I asked this in the other thread, but which version of this book should I buy? Besides the cover art, is the new edition in any way nicer than the 10th anniversary one?
>>8107084
she knows all about the book, shes not a dum-dum
ikr, >implying the book isnt dum anyway
>>8107096
It's only better in the sense that it corrects a single page from the footnotes that was printed in a particularly fucked up fashion.
If that doesn't matter to you, no sense in not going with the tried and trusted meme edition.
>>8107107
thanks, i'll go with the tried and trusted meme edition
>>8107062
The old intro by David Eggers has this one line about how the book would "outlast" him that's really amusing in the context of DFW's suicide 2 years after it the intro was published.
>>8107201
i love eggs
>>8107062
who made this image
>>8107579
pynchon
>>8107579
it was posted by Pynchon publicist on his twitter
>>8107107
Some people prefer the deckled edges too. Though I think they're just an excuse to hike up the price by 2-4 bucks.
>>8107628
how people can prefer that tumblr tier shit is beyond me.
>>8107063
meet more women, you'll meet a lot that are worth your time and that can love, don't care about money etc.
Yes the ones worth marrying are a minority but i don't understand how somebody could think all women are sociopaths just because generally women are.
>>8107634
I liked having them on The Disaster Artist, because the ragged appearance they gave the book suited what it was about. Other than that, it is just a faggy gimmick,yes.
>>8107064
nice meme, babe
>>8107628
Do both the hardcover and paperback have deckled edges?
>>8107803
Is there a 20th anniversary hardcover? The original hardcover from 1996 (the only one I know of) definitely didn't, but if there's a new one, I have no idea. The new paperback with the cover OP posted does for sure.
The meme paperback with the sky cover has regular edges too. It's only the new one with the TV eye cover that has deckled edges.
>>8107641
>you'll meet a lot that are worth your time
Not really.
If he's lucky he'll meet one, though.
>>8107062
i don't like that picture one stinking bit
THIS thread cannot die
>has a gf
you can't be /lit/ and have a gf at the same time
ONLY IF you've both finished the Western Canon. Until then, >pic related
>>8108049
you'll give in eventually
>>8108049
broke up w her. give me the western canon list
>>8108098
Start with the greeks
>>8108049
What if my GF is a classics professor who reads The Greeks to me in the original Attic (old Ionic when appropriate) when I ball her? Huh? What then, wise guy?
>>8108098
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
>>8108030
Looks like a caricarture of Anna Paquin. 0/10
>>8107041
>ur gf
>>8108125
Literally impossible for a woman capable of a relationship to understand to begin with.
>>8108215
>http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
Abridged version?
>>8108125
If
>>8107041
Something went wrong I don't have a gf, please don't send me texts.
>>8107041
Regretfully drop her for reading such low-quality memefiction.
>>8107041
Call her a meme loving fuck, spoil it for her, call her a reads-for-plot-pleb when she gets angry, break up with her and become a knight of faith
>>8107063
Sorry your mom's a slut.
Do you ever lay your hard truths on her?
>>8107041
>delete this
>>8107041
I actually really like this edition, I meme you not.
>>8107067
Actually, those are two independent clauses, so a comma would be wrong, you fucking fag. Either a semi-colon or a period would work.
>>8107063
lmao
Sounds like you're just salty you can't get any pussy. Maybe if you spent less time on gay image boards you would.
Can't believe they didn't go with this cover.
>>8108564
O shit that's good
>>8108518
>idk what the fuck it means
fucking summerfags
>>8107107
it actually corrects a lot more than that, but ok
>>8107835
theres no 20th anniv. hardcover
>>8108564
>memetic resolution
bump
>>8108594
Nobody fucking cares pal
Wait a minute, Infinite Jest is meme fiction? Shit, I must have been tricked into enjoying it.
>>8109452
Ha ha--gotcha! Imagine how I feel--I read it and loved it, THEN found out it was a meme, then read it again to see where I'd been fooled and loved it even more the second time. When I read it the third time, I'm hopeful I'll have a miserable time, though.
I only read it because of the memes and wasn't disappointed. The Broom of The System and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men are a lot better though. Honestly, I think DFW got worse as he went along.
>>8108490
>those are two independent clauses
Not necessarily. She could be getting it because it's so nice.
>>8109856
Hairsplitting faggot.
You're right tho.
>inb4 tho not though
>>8108518
newer than new
>>8107041
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>8109797
I don't think The Broom of the System is anything he should have been as embarrassed by as he evidently was, but I think it was only a glimpse of things to come. His short fiction is radiant. I think he was fairly masterful in every form he took his hand to.
>>8107041
why do people hate this book so much?
>>8112366
You are an idiot
>>8109797
Pale King was pretty good though. my favorite part was when the professor gave the speech about heroism
>>8108564
The cartridge cover design is great. I liked this one too. Actually, looking at almost all the other submissions floating around out there, it's pretty fucking impossible to understand why they went with that Mitch Albom serif font kindergarten chalk drawing garbage. I won't even get started on the deckle edge choice, much less for a book whose structure requires you to flip back and forth.
>>8108125
a) hopefully not my gf
b) "(old Ionic when appropriate)" you might want to check if she's reading Lucian to you because that could go terribly wrong for you some night, especially if she's a plank
>>8107628
When I got my 20th ed in the mail I thought they'd fucked up the paper or something. Who the fuck would prefer that?
>>8113323
Post pic
>>8107041
>how the fuck are you?
I'll reply that
>>8107912
Save it, mi amigo. It's all yours
>>8107063
>The only love that is worth anything is the love to the white race and the deus vult movement.
>>8107041
>what do u do, /lit/?
text, good luck bitch. let me know when you drop it.
I actually really like this cover. It's the 20th ed in the UK w/ no deckled edges.
Does anyone actually have the 20th anni ed and can take a picture of the edges?
I wanna see how bad it is
>>8108490
Not according to Strunk, White, and Kalman.
>>8114720
Fair, but that is also "listing."
>>8107063
>falling for /pol/ memes
JUST
>>8113501
I love deckled edges, why does everyone else hate them?
>>8116729
it's a meme
deckled edges make turing to a page in the middle of the book easier.
>>8107063
Butthurt heartborken friend-zoned beta fag detected.
>>8116733
I slide my finger across the top and turn by the corner. The materialist in me also really loves texture, so I really love how the edges feel on my fingers.
>>8116729
>>8116733
I hate deckle edge because it makes it harder to thumb to a specific page. When I flip through a book my thumb makes contact with all the pages, so I stop when I get to the page I need. Do that with a deckle edge and the pages will turn in chunks and you'll turn to the pages that stick out the most again and again. Imagine needing to frequently reference page 100 and always thumbing to 110 and having to flip back. That's gonna get fucking annoying after a while.
If it were 100 years ago and the deckle edge were an unavoidable result of the papermaking process, and it boosted the price of the book to remove it, I wouldn't have such a strong opinion. But literally the only function of deckle edge today is to look ye olde timey and pander to the kind of tacky, pretentious past fetishists who are willing to pay more for something because someone in a factory did extra work to make it look shittier. It's like buying pre-distressed jeans or being into steampunk. Face it: if you like deckle edge, you might as well just get it over with and fill your shelves with those hideous Barnes and Noble leather bound "collectible" editions and start your YA book review YouTube channel.
>>8116953
Pretty much, it's annoying functionally and jacks up the price for retarded kitsch reasons. There's literally no good reason for books to have them nowadays outside of the fact that pretentious hipster faggots eat that shit up like candy.
>>8108086
i want that in my lyf
>>8108086
Assembling cheap bookcases from Walmart is a hobby of mine, 2bh pham.
>>8116953
Why is her arm so long?
>hideous Barnes and Noble leather bound "collectible" editions
Cry more, the HP Memecraft one is great
>>8117327
Aren't they all rigid and cheaply made though?
>>8117327
all the better to beat off the ball, my dear
>>8117444
I beat off plenty and my arms aren't that long.
>>8107041
It happened and I dumped her before stealing her copy of Frankenstein. Now, I'm reading the copy with all her shit annotations of Shelley's Romanticist classic as it pertained to her late-teen-aged-mind and realizing I dropped a nut-job. She had some big ol' titties and was pretty sweet, though, excluding the Borderline Personality Disorder.
>>8117528
BPD is never sweet except for the sex
