Are there really any other American Novels from the past 50 years that capture something at the core of the modern American experience? Infinite Jest is a joke in comparison to this.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 27 12:09:21 2020 No.15973879 [Reply] [Original]

Are there really any other American Novels from the past 50 years that capture something at the core of the modern American experience? Infinite Jest is a joke in comparison to this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 12:43:25 2020 No.15974161 >>15973879 Sounds cool, OP. What's it about?

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Anonymous Mon Jul 27 12:55:58 2020 No.15974250

>>15973879
Infinite Jest is not about the American experience and its overall themes are not all that US centric, pleasure seeking being mistaken for the pursuit of happiness and replacement for honest communication is a fairly wide spread thing in the world.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 14:04:14 2020 No.15974926 DeLillo, I think, captures the zeitgeist of the last half-century in America pretty well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 14:29:41 2020 No.15975162 >>15974926 Yes white noise captured the upper middle class white family perfectly

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:49:38 2020 No.15976325 God damnit I hated reading this book so much. Nothing happened. The characters were unlikable, boring and one dimensional. If I wanted to be bored by something like this I would listen to my mother gossiping about relatives.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:04:50 2020 No.15977009 >>15976325 Child

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:17:36 2020 No.15977147 >>15976325 (ha, ha)

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