Shits on academia throughout entire book

>shits on academia throughout entire book
>book involves itself with issues only academics care about

What did he mean by this?

David Foster FRAUD

rekt

Which issues do you mean?

Is this worth reading ? I don't ususally bother with fiction anymore but since you fags talk about it so myucjh I ordered a copy.

>he didn't realize that DFW was slowly being mentally poisoned by Franzen
thats why Pale King is much more sparse senpai
DFW didn't like anything by Gass besides omensetter's luck
he was coming to detest experimental fiction and high modernism

You should at least read the first 100 pages so you can understand why people say it's shit.

It's actually a really good book. It's a little fucked up at times but it's a great read.

I'm reading it now and it's fine.

have you ever read an academic journal? it's very common. it's also very common in other areas of society as well, people just want to be smarter than their peers.

>shit on Veeky Forums
>spend your time on Veeky Forums

>the middle class is so hypocritical
>be middle class

>The contemporary art scene is basically just a bunch of opportunistic individualists playing games of networking and self-promoting in order to supply an unregulated, speculative marketplace for rich people, where the elites can exercise their power by playing their own vacuous games of defining art, good taste and quality.
>be an artist