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Are the essays in this any good?
I enjoyed them a lot
>>7879250
I was a moron and read Wallace to see what all the fuss was about, including the entirety of IJ and I have come to the conclusion that I largely am not a fan, particularly of his prose works and short stories. Despite thinking he is a big meme, I found some of the essays sober, coherent and actually kind of fun to read too. I'd say the ones he did in Consider the Lobster are probably his best.
Consider the Lobster is pretty insightful.
if you haven't read it yet, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again is probably his best.
All memeing aside, I truly wish he was still with us. We'll never have another Wallace, or a writer that can do what he does. All we have left to do is keep scrapping together what's left of him, reminding ourselves of the hole he's left us in.
How patrician is your uni? Got accepted to pic-related but I'm not so sure of the culture.
My cousin went to that uni, she came back pregnant. lol
I think uni depends on what you're studying desu. My uni has a great English/Philosophy department, but our History and classics departments are a bit lacking.
Inb4 Oxford pasta
Get on my level, losers.
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-research-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/
If you plebs want to find out how slow you read.
>>7879142
I clicked finished as soon as the page loaded and I only got 6000 something
what an unbelievable shitpost
/lit/ isn't interested in you bragging about how fast you can click a button
I thought it was pretty good. Exaggerated for dramatic effect of course, but it offers a more realistic perspective of oper borders and humanism than alot of what comes from the leftist media.
Do you think you could find the quote near the end where they say something like "whiteness isn't about your appearance / the colour of your skin, it's about how civilized you are" or something?
I can never remember it.
Built it!
Desu Vult b/rothers!
>invade most of the world
>now they cried when they get invaded
suck it, losers.
it's post 1985 stephen king, so yea, it's shit
I just finished the audiobook, and it's the first Stephen King novel that I've actually 'read'...
Is it just me, or is there more truth to that Harry Potter copypasta than most people think?
Every time he dresses up plot contrivances as "the past harmonizes", and the characters are plain as shit, an earnest everyman and a well built blue eyed blonde virgin with an insatiable sexual appetite that has all of the good aspects of stereotypical 50s/60s female devotion and none of the bad ones. There's no great insight into Oswald,...
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>>7879109
It's a fine piece of fiction that will hold your attention and entertain you. The ending is a bit disappointing, but that is to be expected from Stephen King. It doesn't really contain any deep shit, but it has a good story and decent characters. I would recommend it for someone looking to pass some time.
Is it best to live with unabashed elitism or unbridled compassion?
I find both temperaments to be appealing. A certain dose of elitism is necessary to prevent cultural/intellectual decline. It gives us a set of standards and encourages to live up to then. However, compassion toward others is far likelier to engender fulfillment. The life of an elitist is often a bitter and angry one.
For example, a handful of my colleagues and fellow community members are involved in a feminist collective. This collective ultimately does little other than to perpetuate this bullshit...
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Having some balance and not giving too much of a shit about other people's development. Work towards bettering yourself.
What happens when you have cultural decline? I never study what happens if that was an event that could happen.
>>7879089
I agree that it's best to focus on your own personal growth, but at the same time each person's individual development feeds into society at large which necessarily has an impact on all of those within it. No man is an island and whatnot.
Let's talk bookmarks. What do you prefer?
Silk? Cardboard? Metal? Perhaps one of those fugly persian carpet bookmarks that mothers bring from trips to Istanbul? Train tickets? Carved wood? The ones that come with every single book from bookdepository?
memory
I use those paint chips you can get at he hardware store. It is always always always coordinated with the cover.
>>7879036
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I heard there are censored versions of Gulliver's travels.
Oxford World's Classics/Penguin cool?
>dat lilliputian jap's eye cave explorer scene
>>7878956
What is there to censor? Great book btw OP. If you're not triggered by ebooks, there's a free kindle version on amazon that I assume is untouched.
Which ancient Greek text did you start with?
The Republic, read it with zero introduction on Plato and philosophy and it was quite a fun read.
>>7878912
Oedipus.
>>7878912
The Odyssey
http://www.toptenbooks.net/authors/david-foster-wallace
Is this a joke? Stephen King....
He was a poser faggot when talking about what her liked. He pretended to like star wars episode one and shit.
>>7878810
He was very self-conscious about being pretentious, which is why he took such efforts to demonstrate that he wasn't a snob.
I think if you asked him what his Top 10 books were in a personal conversation, he wouldn't be able to answer without worrying about what you would think of his choices.
Choosing commercial fiction authors that are looked down upon by the literary establishment (which he was a part of) is his way of avoiding anxiety and denying his vanity
>>7878826
that makes a lot of sense. after listening to the KCRW interviews and reading between the lines in his work i'm pretty convinced his struggles with privilege guilt were one of the main contributing factors to his self-regard
SJWs BTFO. Also: wincest.Ian McEwan
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/02/ian-mcewan-criticised-over-transgender-remarks
He has... Some good points, and some bad ones. There is this horrible victim complex in a lot of the circles containing the transgender population, but being transgender is not a new thing. It's been going on for centuries. It's only now getting the publicity that it has because of the internet and the gay rights movement.
I'm trans and I hate most trannies. They're self-righteous, demanding cunts who think screaming "DISCRIMINATION" at people is going to make them accept us.
There's hardly anyone in my life who knows I'm trans....
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/pol/ here
redpill me on literature
>>7878788
"Nonbinary" people have hopped onto trangender rights and diluted them. It's just hilarious because with their "everyone can be everything" feelgood, don't hurt my feels nature they actually undermine and question the struggles of transgender people. By making what you identify as just a choice like coffee or tea, they invalidate the argument for transgender people suffering from a disorder that deserves to be treated (such as with hormones and surgery).
Basically it sucks.
Thoughts?
>>7878700
David Foster Wallace didn't look like a fucking caveman
I don't understand why Jesse Eisenberg gets cast in anything. The dude is such a shit actor.
>>7878700
garbage, haven't seen it.
Character Name Thread.
It's one of the hardest fucking parts of writing. What's this dude's name?
Discuss, suggest, ask and help out.
just make it some high brow reference like everyone else does
MC's first name is Asher, nickname Ash, can't figure out a last name for him but he's a really typical dude in his early 20s in a devout christian family in white suburbia.
Love interest is a long-haired pillock with a passion for BDSM and ropes, wanted to give him a biblical name. This is the list I came up with so far:
Ephraim
Jude (but I have an ex named Jude so probably not)
Levi (The Book of Levi/Leviticus possible book names)
Noah
Raphael
Cain (way too obvious)
i like making the names anagrams of other words, like wet anus -> sue want, or something incredibly sad/banal -> bartleby dedominicis langhans. it's fun, much moreso than agonising over meanings.
So I picked up Infinite Jest and I can't help but feel underwhelmed. He writes in such a way that whatever information is inbound comes in a way that is both unclear and confusing. I can't quite understand what did he mean by needing to include details of someone shuffling change and his shoe being parallel to what is his something something relative all the while failing to explain what the fuck is going around.
This book feels like a headache. Is it worth pursuing? I swear to God, at least Moby Dick knew better how to present it's narrative without coming...
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Imo he does it because it so real and banal that it doesnt belong in literature. From what I understand a large part of the book is dedicated to figuring out what is real and unreal and how it applies to literature. I honestly dont really know what im talking about but I think he's representing how an author represents reality in a society where it is impossible to figure out whats real and whats not.
>>7878648
And he oscillates between hyperreal and surreal to portray this. Also I dont know how to connect it but a large part is also showing the failure of metafiction and basically it only leads to insanity. But its it's weird because he engages in everything that he criticizes.
>>7878648
I see, I see. I just feel being repelled, almost as if reading something that I was designed not to like in the first place. Also, what's up with the endnotes? Notes in general. Jesus Christ, the first page has more than enough material to have at least an another page as supplementary notes.
>>7878667
I would assume you know nothing more than spout 'Pleb this, pleb that' without actually explaining anything or participating in the thread in a meaningful way....
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/lit/: The Book
Seriously though, is this worth checking out?
Looks interesting, it came out just a month ago, so don't expect any "proper" answers.
>hardcover
>$104
>kindle
>$80
fuuuccckkkk off
vulture shit
