Is Infinite Jest the Dark Souls of literature?
Is Infinite Jest the Dark Souls of literature?
Ethan Gomez
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Luis Lee
What is Infinite Jest?
Anthony Allen
the infinite jest of video games
Parker Garcia
no its game of throne [smiley with the carat nose]
Elijah Jones
In terms of fanbase annoyance? Yes.
Christian Williams
Yep. Overrated; tedious as hell, but not actually hard; promoted by the worst of the worst people.
Justin Bennett
>Dark Souls
sure, too hard and not worth the effort, with a fanbase that claims its greatness comes from its technical challenge
Hunter Smith
really getting sick of IJ posts
Joshua Stewart
God this. I was honestly worried it would be too hard before I started it, but I'm like a third of the way through and haven't had any difficulty. It's just annoying sometimes when you're bombarded with endnotes or run into chapters written in "ghetto" gibberish.
Juan Roberts
Yes !! lol!! !!!
Angel Miller
*cue in "what Veeky Forums needs is more DFW threads" copypasta*
Adrian Roberts
>overrated
the difficulty is, but the game isn't
>tedious as hell
which one did you play? DS1 was great
>but not actually hard
I'll agree with that.
>promoted by the worst of the worst people
could apply to any big budget video game
Caleb Peterson
there's only one or two ebonic chapters, don't be such a pussy. if that kind of weird shit puts you off than you'll probably hate Ulysses
Cameron Hall
Look at this. He broke down my flippant post about a video game phrase by phrase and treated each phrase as a separate assertion to refute. Is this 2002?
The worst of the worst people, I'm telling you.
Charles Robinson
Veeky Forums: Infinite Jest.
/a/ Neon Genesis Evangelion
/tv/: The Dark Knight Rises
/mu/: In ter Aeroplane over the Sea
/g/: Gentoo
/v/: Dark Souls.
Yeah, both are the flagmemes of a Veeky Forums board.
Andrew Ross
"and but so shinji crashed this aeroplane with no survivors into firelink shrine" (i don't know anything about linux)
today i have touched pure meme, and pure meme has touched me.
Camden Campbell
I love both the book and game and I have to say
Yes
both have that tedious feeling to them but if you push on its work it in the end
Noah Cruz
I couldn't imagine literature as hard as dark souls.
Elijah Wright
>/mu/: In ter Aeroplane over the Sea
Wrong. That would deathconsciounsess.
Liam White
IJ is just a book. It's pretty good IMO and it's very long but it is just a book. People need to stop taking such exception to it. It's also marginally harder than perhaps your average read but only in a few superficial ways. Plus it's pretty entertaining once you get used to it, it's a very long and fun book...a funny..long....infine...OMG
Luis Butler
Those are all different kind of memes
If you want to be simalar to how IJ is it would be something like
Veeky Forums: Infinite Jest
/a/: Monogatari
/mu/: Itaots
/g/: Arch
/v/: Killer7
These works are all liked in that circle specifically more than any where else on the internet, but are of some controversy in such circle
Thomas Murphy
>God this
Nathan Sanders
you don't spend much time on /mu/, it's definitely either ITAOTS or something like Pet Sounds
Charles Scott
pet sounds is Ulysses or maybe something like Margarita
Joseph Carter
>Is this 2002?
where you been sugar
bretty gud
Jose Fisher
>Killer7
Are we visiting the same board?
Dominic Reyes
Bentley Campbell
Ulysses is probably Since I Left You
Finnegans Wake is Trout Mask Replica
Kevin Myers
fuck you pseuds not starting with kings gate or DeS
Blake Lee
this meme thread legitimately made me laugh. everyone can collectively go fuck themselves
Connor Barnes
WHO KILLED INFINITE SUMMER?!?!
Mason Phillips
>he still goes on /v/
Daniel Ward
You came to the wrong board, my man
Noah Kelly
Maybe the new Ghostbusters movie is more your speed.
Wyatt Hughes
finnegans wake can easily be compared to TMR. But not in this cultural context, only as the work itself.
Oliver Reed
the guy who organized it so that it unexpectedly starts early on June 3rd.
Bentley Hill
oh shut the fuck up
if you know nothing about music, and only a bit about literature, you shouldn't attempt to make these kinds of comparisons.
Andrew Kelly
>Ulysses
>Since I left you
kek
the other one is fairly accurate, but this... come on user
Jose Long
>/a/: Monogatari
That's quite wrong.
Oliver Moore
Why?
>talked about daily
>either loved or seen as pseudo deep shallow garbage
Sebastian Murphy
>talked about daily
>either loved or seen as pseudo deep shallow garbage
>These works are all liked in that circle specifically more than any where else on the internet, but are of some controversy in such circle
These are much more closer to NGE, Lain and LoGH (specially the first one) than Monogatari series by a wide margin.
Parker Howard
So, /tv/ is Drive?
Nathaniel Cook
Monogatari and infinite jest are also much lighter and easier than lain or NGE. (like how IJ is to the others in the meme trilogy)
Tyler Taylor
The what?
Jace Morgan
/tv/ would be Spring Breakers in that case
Adrian Morgan
>implying I didn't start with DeS
I said DaS1 was great, not that it was my first
Brandon Watson
Andrew Klavan described this book the best.
He met the fellow on a bus and knew from the start the man was a genius yet a drunk. Alcohol ruined his ability to write, yet his genius stayed the same. Infinite Jest is the manifestation of this.
Justin Taylor
Not bad not bad
Hudson Rivera
he had drink, he can't write
Caleb Hall
People like you turned this book into a meme
Landon Miller
Would some of you people even listen to music without /mu/. Have you legit bought into music as a meme