>>8173384
yes I have. I read it before I knew it was a meme book. the way you can someone really read it is they barely remember anything about it

there should be an option for "Yes, but I selectively chose which footnotes to read."

>>8173384
Are you 12 or something? It's not even a difficult read. Just long and often slow going.

are you stupid? ij is shit

>>8173391
this

what about "yes I'm reading it right now"

l2infinitesummer, infinitepleb

there should be an option for "no and I don't intend to"

nah

i read brief interviews with hideous men and i enjoyed it, but i'm not sure if i fancy a thousand pages straight of that voice. short stories were about right

I started reading it but I didn't think it that interesting and it was long-drawn so I dropped it

Yes. I've read it twice, footnotes and all.

>>8173485
I think I started coming to /lit around the time DFW-posting was starting to pick-up steam, but the confluence of cult-following and simultaneous derision turned me off from Wallace altogether. I've been tempted to dip into The Broom of the System a couple of times at my local bookstore, but I can never get past the opening paragraph.

>>8173405
I scimmed over some of the longer, more technical footnotes.

>>8173505
Brief Interviews is great.

>>8173384
No I haven't read it because I'm not a yank. I have never heard of dfw before I came on this board and I don't intend to get memed.

>>8173528
"K" is your friend.

Your lucky numbers are 12 (and by extension 3 & 4), 35, 72, 12,769.

>>8173505
Brief Interviews is probably his strongest work overall. If you've read that, you don't really need to read anything else by him.