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Anonymous Mon Nov 2 09:57:22 2020 No.16701164 [Reply] [Original]

What am I in for and why is NYRB the most kino publisher?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 09:59:47 2020 No.16701177 >>16701164 >why is NYRB the most kino publisher What’s it like being braindead?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:20:53 2020 No.16701280 >>16701164 A very enjoyable read. It's nowhere near as hard as some people would say. As long as you pay attention it's easy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:52:37 2020 No.16701437 >>16701280 It's also not a masterpiece as some people are spouting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 11:05:21 2020 No.16701508 >>16701437 This.Gaddis is one of the most overrated novelists on lit

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 11:40:58 2020 No.16701707 >What am I in for kill yourself you retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 11:50:31 2020 No.16701766 >>16701437 >>16701508 Gaddis is overrated as a novelist but JR is a masterpiece. The rest is forgettable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 11:57:10 2020 No.16701800 File: 26 KB, 220x316, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16701766 what about the re- cogni- tions?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:02:01 2020 No.16701827 >>16701766 He's not overrated, people never mention anything by him other than his first two books, and even that rarely, at least compared to standard lit stuff. Also, The Recognitions is his best book. .

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:08:36 2020 No.16701853 >>16701800 It was okay.I liked it when I was in a postmodern phase.Some parts were laugh out loud funny.Overall, it was too esoteric and had numerous art references which made parts a slog

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:14:30 2020 No.16701882 >>16701853 >it was too esoteric and had numerous art references You can just say "I got filtered"

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:14:56 2020 No.16701885 >>16701177 Checked

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:26:41 2020 No.16701939 >>16701827 He shouldn't even be talked about as much as he is. Super Overrated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:30:20 2020 No.16701951 >>16701882 I didn’t though.It just sucked and was a waste of time.You don’t have to be so fragile when a book you like is criticized

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:31:11 2020 No.16701955 >>16701951 I haven't read it yet, it just sounds like a typical filtration scenario.

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:34:14 2020 No.16701962

>>16701955
I said it wasn’t.I understood the themes, symbolism and plot of the book fine.I don’t care about art and esotericism enough to read hundreds of pages of references.Dont be a retard and say I was filtered again.I just didn’t like the book.Deal with it

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:35:00 2020 No.16701965 >>16701962 >filtered pleb getting mad lel

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:35:31 2020 No.16701968 >>16701955 If it wasn't evident enough, see here: >>16701962

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:43:00 2020 No.16701988 >>16701962 >I don’t care about art and esotericism enough to read hundreds of pages of references I guess I don't need to say you were filtered again since you just spelled it out for us lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:43:50 2020 No.16701991 >>16701939 I think it's time for you to go dilate (and have sex).

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:45:40 2020 No.16701999

>>16701965
You’re obviously a newfag.”Filtered” is if you don’t understand, not dislike.So are you filtered by any book you don’t like now?Your probably a Pynchon fan too.At least he’s better than Gaddis.No clue why you would defend him when you admitted to never reading the book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:47:55 2020 No.16702007 >>16701999 >No clue why you would defend him when you admitted to never reading the book. you're obviously the newfag if you think there's only one person ITT

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:54:43 2020 No.16702036 >>16702007 I’m talking to the tard who never read the book and yet is defending it.The state of lit...The only good book from the “postmodernists” was M&D

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:07:28 2020 No.16702085 >>16701999 you're obviously an idiot. the subtext behind the post is that you didn't actually get it and are a stupid pleb who was filtered but thinks he's smart.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:16:38 2020 No.16702117 >>16702085 How many times do I have to say I understood it?Someone can understand a book and not like it.Come to terms with that.Your mother cheated on your father with niggers, faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:23:39 2020 No.16702155 >>16702117 You didn't though. You got filtered. It's not simply references. You know how we know you got filtered? Because you refer to the parts that bored you as references and are acting like they aren't important at all. You got filtered.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:30:50 2020 No.16702185 >>16701164 >why is NYRB the most kino publisher? You have to go back.

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:33:37 2020 No.16702198

>>16702155
This is my last post then I’m out because this is retarded.I understood the significance of the references and how they were pivotal to the themes of the books.I just don’t like maximalist literature.I did when I first got into reading but my taste has improved.Do you believe if you understand something, you have to like it?Why do Pynchon and Gaddis fans have such a chip on their shoulder?They have become worse than DFW fanboys.Dont bother replying because I’m done.This conversation is going nowhere

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:43:39 2020 No.16702245 >>16701164 Is it set in the same typeface as the ‘90s Penguin edition? That one looked beautiful, but I had to give it back to the library eventually.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:09:40 2020 No.16702331 >>16701962 bro you gotta put a space after the period man come on

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:16:21 2020 No.16702356 >>16702245 https://archived.moe/lit/thread/16617627/ There are photos of pages from it in this thread.

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:17:45 2020 No.16702361

>>16701800
It is just the inferior version of JR. He took what was good above The Recognitions into JR while trimming off everything that made it a superfluous 'first novel'. The only other Gaddis book that could be considered great is A Frolic of His Own, but it I would never say it is a masterpiece or a great novel of the 20th century.

>>16701827
>The Recognitions is his best book.
What did he do in The Recognitions that was not redone and surpassed in JR?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:21:41 2020 No.16702390 File: 15 KB, 240x187, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16702198 hey look I found a pic of you

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:23:04 2020 No.16702397 >>16702361 What are your favourite novels of 20th century?

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:46:07 2020 No.16702515

>>16702397
Ulysses, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, ISoLT, Ada or Ardor, The Master and Margareta, Life and Fate, The Magic Mountain, Pedro Paramo, The Passion According to G.H, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Beckett's Trilogy, Petersburg, Nostromo, Parade's End, Light in August, most of Kafka...how many am I to list?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:58:02 2020 No.16702569 >>16702361 >inferior version of JR Embarrassingly filtered!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 15:25:49 2020 No.16702694 >>16702569 Answer the question then. Even Gass, who is Gaddis #1 fanboy and loves The Recognitions, believes this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 16:22:50 2020 No.16703035 File: 152 KB, 1920x1163, filter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16701962

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 16:26:26 2020 No.16703054 I’ve never read The Recognitions, but JR gave me no desire to read more Gaddis >filtered!! I know it’s coming.It’s more of a reverse filter.Liking Gaddis is the mark of a pseud

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 18:40:58 2020 No.16703736 Not quite first-rate and constantly bitter about his lack of fame, Gaddis' thematics feel a little trite.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 19:01:59 2020 No.16703841 >>16703736 william ”boy, everyone is an idiot except me” gaddis

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 20:05:38 2020 No.16704098 >>16702515 Holy shit Beckett Trilogy and Ada? Patrician taste detected

>>	Invite only /lit/ alternative? Mon Nov 2 20:10:39 2020 No.16704115 >>16701508 you... are gay

>>	Invite only /lit/ alternative? Mon Nov 2 20:11:46 2020 No.16704118 >>16701882 exactly! retards complaining about Gaddis is getting very, very annoying

>>	Invite only /lit/ alternative? Mon Nov 2 20:12:47 2020 No.16704122 >>16702390 OWNED king alert

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 20:24:07 2020 No.16704162 >>16704118 Then why will none of you posting "filtered" answer this >>16702361 I have my doubts any of you have even read JR and The Recognitions, nevermind his other novels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 20:30:07 2020 No.16704191 Gaddis readers are becoming worse than DFW fags.Any criticism is answered with: >filtered Gaddis is trash and a nobody.I’ve read one of his books and previewed another.It was a waste of time

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 20:45:32 2020 No.16704250 >>16702515 Great list anon, this gives me the inspiration to put aside everything else and tackle Petersburg.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 20:53:15 2020 No.16704284 >>16704191 You got filtered. But you are the one getting mad about it. Cry some more about how you are intelligent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 21:05:39 2020 No.16704345 >>16704284 It’s funny how “filtered” is the response to different anons criticisms.Gaddis seems to be the ultimate dick sizing author where pseuds think they look smart if they like him

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:23:03 2020 No.16705760 >>16702036 Moby & Dick?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:27:42 2020 No.16705784 >>16704345 Exactly. Gravity's Rainbow is far harder than any of Gaddis' work, yet you are filtered if you dislike him? Pathetic. JR isn't even hard, the first 50 pages or so will get you up to speed and rest is smooth sailing.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:37:11 2020 No.16705821

>>16701882
>>16701955
>>16701965
>>16701988
>>16701991
>>16702085
>>16702155
>>16702569
>>16704115
>>16704118
>>16704284
Buttblasted Gaddisfags everyone.
His only contribution to lit is maybe transitioning the literary zeitgeist from modernism to postmodernism, but was eternally BTFO'd by the arrival of a far more gifted writer just 8 years after his debut and had been bitter since till death. This board loves to shit on DFW, but in IJ and Pale king Wallace wrote with more sincerity and genuity than Gaddis could muster in his entire life. Nigga was so angry he was less Gaddis more Gaddafis. Lol.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:41:12 2020 No.16705843 >>16705821 muh sincerity

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:48:48 2020 No.16705873 >>16705843 Muh argument

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:51:05 2020 No.16705884 >>16705873 I don't need arguments when I have eternal truths on my side

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 02:54:24 2020 No.16705889 >>16705760 Mason and Dixon

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 03:00:17 2020 No.16705912

>>16705884
What a crock of shit.What is an “eternal truth” anyway?It sounds like a typical empty philosophical word.The Recognitions sucked.I have no desire to read JR.There are hundreds of authors better than Gaddis.Pseuds to Gaddis are like flies to honey

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 04:09:34 2020 No.16706149 >>16705889 You unfunny fag

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 10:04:39 2020 No.16707366 >>16706149 Retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:52:15 2020 No.16707835 >>16707366 Retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:54:03 2020 No.16708141 >>16701164 What the fuck is this book, and why is it being spammed here every other day?

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:57:26 2020 No.16708164

>>16708141
>What the fuck is this book
JR by William Gaddis
>why is it being spammed here every other day?
It's a significant book that, despite its significance, goes out of print every few years, and until recently cost $100 or so for a used paperback.

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