when does the story start. when do i get a main character.
i might not be up to lits standards but the only chapter that was making remote "sense" was the chapter about buying marijuana and him failing to quit.
am i getting memed hard?
Ch 3 or 4 of infinite jest
Nathaniel Bell
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Levi Clark
>he wants a story
>he wants a main character
stick to mass market paperbacks at the grocery store
John Young
Yes infinite jest is a meme. I shitposted about it here for years and then I actually read (300 pages of) it. Truly a meme.
Ryder Brooks
i thought it was going to be one of those "every chapter different mc different plot same world" kinda deal.
but the prose/style/whatever seems to change every chapter and sometimes its very hard to read without cringing desu.
is this "art" the same way the cia paid andy warhol to make art?
Elijah Diaz
You're getting memed on. By his own admission DFW wrote this book to impress people. Readers talk about it to impress other people, or signal superiority (), or to trick ego-readers into wasting their time on a 1000 page doorstop.
Kinda sad when you think about all the attention this book and it's author has received. But that's just how the world works. What's on the inside doesn't matter to most.
John Rogers
DFW never said that. He specifically said that he didn't set out to make Infinite Jest big, and that after a while it "became obvious" that it would be.
Liam Flores
He often wrote about his need to impress people with his writing, though. IJ did not need to be 1000 pages.
Ethan Walker
don't listen to the trolls. infinite jest is a very difficult book to read, because it focusses more on themes, recurring elements, and a large ensemble cast of interconnected characters, each with their own plot, and backstory, as well as diverging into excruciating amounts of detail. this is how the book was intended to be; if this is not your style, by all means stop reading and maybe a few years from now you'll decide to give it another shot. the good side is that DFW makes all the information in this book pretty easy to understand; he very rarely divulges in weird dreamy sequences and all-over the place metaphors and time and reality jumps like say Gravity's Rainbow does. this book is not hard, it is just long, and very dense.
rest assured though, IJ is *not* a meme. there are many many many online communities and blogs devoted to this book which will attest to that fact. many people on Veeky Forums however, being high school kids who think that reading animal farm and catcher in the rye has made them excellent readers, have been flunked by it just like yourself and try to justify this by selling the book as shitty and unreadable. best way to find out is to keep reading. after I finished it, the first thing I did was go back to the first page and start again; I spent 6 months devoted to this book and still haven't read anything since that was up to its standard.
Chase Wood
2/10, too many "I'm not a troll" statements, weak persuasion beyond appeals to ego.
Ryder Sanchez
Got em. The meme never dies lmao. Have fun.