I went to pick up a copy of Infinite Jest the other day, the other copies were in horrible condition, so I picked up this one.
>pic related
Before I spend the time reading, is this the one I should read? Or did I get the wrong version? I would just like to know so I Don't waste time.
Ryan Lee
Needs the Dave Eggers foreword for best reading experience.
Oliver Hernandez
You are too stupid to live.
Landon Reed
have you picked up ulysses and gravity's rainbow yet?
Joseph White
Feel any better?
Ayden Cooper
I have Ulysses. I'll pick up the other one eventually.
Jaxon Perez
This is the most recent edition with some errors fixed. I think it's the best version out there. Only the cover is less appealing but w/e.
Luke Wood
This bored is the only place in the universe that has heard of this shitty book.
It's a meme. It's spammed because it appears challenging to the new people here but it's literally just David Wallace rambling for hundreds upon hundreds of pages.
Gavin Clark
My teacher once recommended me DFW. He's not unknown at all.
Luke Nelson
he's pretty much unknown outside the US pynchon too
Ryder Flores
Nice dubs. I can confirm that people outside of America generally don't care about Pynchon and DFW. I did know a few Mexican hipsters—not Chicanos—who liked Pynchon, but they were great imitators of American habits and customs. Honestly a lot of the other pomo American writers who've been posted on here aren't cared about by Europeans. Writers like Bukowski and Sylvia Plath are far more popular.
Aaron Ramirez
Is Ulysses also a meme? Because Joyce is one of the best writers-- or so I've heard.
Logan Hall
it's part of The Meme Trilogy. so yes it's a meme but that doesn't mean it's bad
Luis Myers
Dave Eggers is a fucking retard and I cannot advice first-readers enough to skip it and immediately start the reading the book.
Eli Cooper
Saying that a book is a meme has become a meme of its own. Just because Veeky Forums memes about Joyce, Pynchon, and DFW doesn't mean they're bad.
Cameron Lewis
>he's pretty much unknown outside the US
true
>pynchon too
not true, albeit he is not very popular
Michael Collins
i recall i visited a russian image board back then whose literary board had its own meme books, it were... steppenwolf and the tin drum, they were memed so much that one could be banned simply for mentioning them
Landon Thomas
goddamn we need this
Gabriel Howard
they're both good books but I understand why they'd be considered meme lit
Jason Smith
This exact thread is made all the time. It's obviously some underpaid, publishing house, on-topic shill. For that reason alone, IJ threads should be constantly ridiculed for the tardbait they are, and banished from these lands.
I've never read infinite meme & I never will. Never.
Gavin Phillips
It's just the latest printing, lad. You're fine.
Jose King
Anyone ever notice how many threads we have of OP buying a book and then asking our opinion on it, without having read it yet? What goes through the brains of people like this? Wouldn't it make more sense to ask before buying?
Or how about actually reading the damn thing, and then make a thread what you thought of it, and ask for opinions?
I don't get these dumb threads.
Bentley Nguyen
Buyers Remorse, learn it fuckboy.
Colton Bailey
One Filipino cares about Pynchon. I tried recommending him to classmates in college, had them read passages. They said purple prose, rambling, and pretentious.
Here I am on my 4th reading of Gravity's Rainbow. It's more beautiful now than when I first opened it.
Isaac Watson
Infinite Jest was really fucking big in the lit-scene of the 90's. Everyone was talking about it, and pretended to read it.
Angel Miller
>buyers remorse before even experiencing the product >being this retarded
Gabriel Ramirez
>you cant regret buying something like a book if you are told that the edition matters You are not the brightest bulb if you can't imagine these possibilities.
Kevin Brown
Belgium-poster here. Not a lot of people here know about DFW or Pynchon, allthough there are some. But most hipsters here stick to Bukowski. I have never heard anyone at all speak about Gaddis, Gass, Borges and Bolano. Not even English majors ( tbf, i don't know anyone that studies Spanish, maybe they'd know at least Bolano and Borges.)
Joyce is WAY more known though. Dubliners and Potrait are kind of widespread and i know a horde of people that 'tried Ulysess'.
tbqh, the students in my college are fucking poorly read. I bet 60% don't even have a fucking clue who Sylvia Plath is.
Adam Miller
What's wrong with it?
Jaxon Green
Is he married to Heide Eggers?
Bentley Murphy
Have fun being a literal girl
Samuel Nguyen
More like a whole lot of undergraduates were talking about it. It had zero impact on the grown-up literary scene.
Bentley Russell
What if you're a middle class white undergrad male? Then is it worth reading?