Halfway through with Infinite Jest. Took about 300 pages for me to get into it, but when I got in, I got in. Amazing book.
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The entire thing makes no sense to me. Though I am in need of sleep right now...Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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it's just one literary critic's idea of snark is all. the left-hand column is comprised of commonly-discussed books which, so the list insinuates, are not really worth reading. if you dislike dickens or salinger, it might make you snicker...ain't no beauty queens in this locality
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Replying from something in WAYWT as to not derail.
Originally posted by MetroBulotDodo View PostDFW was all over everything. I can hardly think of another being of our time who was so aware of all things avant-garde. Check out his extremely self-conscious interviews on Charlie Rose
Thanks for the story tip. I'm all all over that, too! It saddens me that I can't correspond with him to discuss his thoughts on that matter, which he undoubtedly held in great detail (because like Aristotle, DFW had an opinion about just goddamn everything.)
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Funny you mentioned Aristotle at the end because I was going to say he was probably the last person before DFW to know so much about so much.
Out of all the video I've seen ft. him he's probably in top form here, he's got the bandanna on, after all. The post-Infinite Jest interview for some German station is hard to watch. You can really tell how much effort he's putting into just staying alive at that point.Last edited by LOVE; 07-21-2013, 11:32 PM.
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Originally posted by MJRH View Postit's just one literary critic's idea of snark is all. the left-hand column is comprised of commonly-discussed books which, so the list insinuates, are not really worth reading. if you dislike dickens or salinger, it might make you snicker...
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I finally read this for the first time, and being a huge fan of Philip K. Dick, I naturally loved it. It was a fantastic read.
That being said, I thought Hampton Fancher's adaptation was much better than the original text. I am a bit biased because Blade Runner is my favorite film, but I preferred how the script focused more on the Androids wanting to be human and their fear of death and the meaning of existence/life.
I just bought PKD's Clans of the Alphane Moon and Maze of Death which I'm looking forward to reading next.
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These are my two favorite works by Murakami i've read, Hard Boiled Wonderland being my personal favorite and Wind-Up Bird, well, it's his masterpiece. The novella South of the Border, West of the Sun is a wonderful, terribly sad book I highly recommend.
Originally posted by fireflygrave View PostJust finished:
Just started:
I can't stop...every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage
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Originally posted by MJRH View Postno, if it's disgusting you want, you should taste juliette instead
So far, enjoying Justine, save for the style of writing. I understand it was a popular technique to be tumid during the puplication of this book, but jesus, from a 2013 perspective it's akin to reading law.every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage
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