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infinite jest
« on: February 17, 2015, 12:41:02 AM »
Has anyone read it? Thoughts?
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2015, 08:02:05 AM »
Nobody?
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2015, 09:14:33 AM »
Are we this uncultured as a board? :(
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2015, 09:38:52 AM »
Maybe not "uncultured", but time constrained? This book is over 1,000 pages!
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2015, 09:45:47 AM »
I just read the blurb - it doesn't look interesting to me. Perhaps I'm destined to remain uncultured :-(
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2015, 11:22:03 AM »
Blah, uncultured my foot.  It's just that we have finite time :). I'm sure we could all throw out texts others haven't read.
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2015, 11:26:40 AM »
Provocation should be interpreted according to genre. :) and trust me, when it comes to reading fiction texts, I'm the least cultured.
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2015, 12:59:46 PM »
How's the Jane Austen going?  Lol.
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2015, 06:10:26 PM »
I have. Parts of it are brilliant, parts of it are incredibly pretentious. Took me about a year to get through it.

DFW Is great. I'd recommend his essays to begin with ... Starting with This is Water, and the collection of essays - A supposedly fun thing I'd never do again and Consider the Lobster.

Brett,

Do you actually read any of the books you constantly ask opinions about? Or just compile a big lost of stuff to read and never work through it...(p.s I'm more of the latter myself )
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2015, 09:57:56 PM »
Applicable:

"...what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic."
"I give."
"You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog." (41)
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2015, 08:23:14 PM »
This is one of the most intriguing books I've read. The writing is often rather horrible and something that even a high school teacher would give a low mark on, yet it seems so utterly right and at home in the book. Maybe that is because I know of the author and so I recognize that he can write better than how he is writing and so the way he is writing has a point, but whatever the case may be, it's terribly interesting.
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« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2015, 11:21:53 PM »
One source claims that Infinite Jest has over 20,000 unique words. That's ridiculous.
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2015, 11:41:08 AM »
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2015, 11:58:18 AM »
I'm uncultured but I am expected to ferment in a few more years.
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Re: infinite jest
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2015, 12:08:14 PM »
Looks a fun book.

Though I've got to sort Finnegans Wake first.
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