The Great Debate

[Anonymous No.20307855]

[Anonymous No.20307863]

>>20307855
3, honorable mentions to 2 and 5

[Anonymous No.20307874]

8

[Anonymous No.20307887]

2

[Anonymous No.20307888]

3 > 2 > 4 = 8 > 6 > 1 > 5 > 7

[Anonymous No.20307892]

I just marathoned all 8 covers. What did I think?

[Anonymous No.20307921]

>>20307855
3 = 4 > 1 > 2 = 8 >>> 7 > 5 > 6

[Anonymous No.20307929]

>>20307855
Don't get 4 if your hands get sweaty

[Anonymous No.20307930]

>>20307855
4 for dry hand chads

[Anonymous No.20307936]

>>20307929
Spine of sweatyman's copy

[Anonymous No.20308012]

I've never read this book, Is it as good as they say, or is it a meme? Based or cringe?

[Anonymous No.20308038]

4

[Anonymous No.20308073]

>>20308012
it's unforgettable. Truly a masterpiece but you have to like DFW's style. I read a few of his other books before IJ.

[Anonymous No.20308126]

>>20308012
Do you have issues with substance abuse and/or depression? If so, I'd recommend
reading it.
>>20307863
My ranking as well, but I'm likely partial to those covers due to familiarity from seeing them often.

[Anonymous No.20308133]

>>20308012
Honestly I'd recommend reading the first fifteen pages and making up your mind for yourself based on that.

[Anonymous No.20308151]

>>20307929
My local bookstores only stock this version, so every time I go looking for books I am remind of sweaty-hands-anon

[Anonymous No.20308209]

is there a wordsworth edition?

[Anonymous No.20308223]

>>20308209
Yes.

[Anonymous No.20308251]

[Anonymous No.20308258]

>>20308012
It is very good but some people have also turned it into a meme like anything else. You really have to read it yourself and find out.

Also I like the entire top row but I guess 3 is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.20308309]

>>20307855
Cover of the finnish translation

[Anonymous No.20308400]

>>20307929
>>20307936
Wallace himself was a prolific sweater, seems appropriate.

[Anonymous No.20308420]

>>20307929
Legendary thread.

[Anonymous No.20308424]

>>20308309
Fitting choice of beverage for the seasoned PR enjoyer.

[Anonymous No.20308529]

>>20307855

I've got 4, probably because Australia always gets the UK covers of books.

It amuses me that there are so many IJ and Wallace threads just as I'm planning to make my second attempt to read it (my last attempt was in 2016 but I only got 300 pages in before I dropped it for A Confederacy of Dunces).

[Anonymous No.20308640]

>>20307855
>>20308309
3>8>finnish>5>1>6>4>>>7>>>>>>>>>>>>>2

[Anonymous No.20308884]

uhhhhh I don't read hack frauds

[Anonymous No.20309241]

>>20307855
The Brazilian edition. I have it, somehow heavier and bigger in dimensions than the original, the translation is a nightmare and I generally don't like paperbacks of 1000+ pages books but then again, the original was as well.

But genuinely my favorite Infinite Jest cover, specially because I like stuff written on the edges.

[Anonymous No.20309317]

I haven't read it so these ratings are purely based on aesthetics.
>>20307855
>1
Steven King-tier. In addition to giving most of the space to the author's name, it literally obscures the title. Why?
>2
Decent text layout and background, but what psycho decided red-white-black was a good color scheme?
>3
Looks like one of those business-learning "How to get rich and get bitches" books. Needs more clouds.
>4
Good but too vulnerable to people with abnormally sweaty hands.
>5
Font and background aesthetic don't compliment eachother.
>6
Best one. Great personality.
>7
Reliant on whether the book fits the tone of that cover
>8
Good

[Anonymous No.20309328]

>>20309317
>*orange-white-black

[Anonymous No.20309362]

>>20308420
That’s not OC but this is the perfect thread for it

[Anonymous No.20309387]

>>20307855
8 is the only one that makes a real attempt to fit the work. 3 is a classic. 4 is the best because sweatyman edition is fitting because DFW had weird body fluid issues with his saliva and sweat (which comes out in IJ in the form of the sweat licking character Lyle). I would say

8 > 4 > 3

[Anonymous No.20309406]

3, and it's not particularly close. The sort of divinely imposed word art with the tennis ball-colored font nails the tone and subject matter of the book to a T.

8 is second choice for me, bland but inoffensive

[Anonymous No.20309425]

This is the cover of the brazilian portuguese edition.

[Anonymous No.20309633]

Why is it that so many covers went with the cloud motif? I finished it in February and don’t remember clouds having much to do with the book. It’s weird to me that clouds would be the focus of so many different editions

[Anonymous No.20309695]

>>20309633
The waiting room outside CT and Avril's office is described as such, that's about it

[Anonymous No.20309704]

>>20309633
My guess is that it is sort of a hint. starting at the eschaton/Canuck stomping part of the novel the narrative makes some jumps in time which do not align with the chapter dates, we find out when these things happened by what is going on with the weather and this also tells us when things happened in relation to other events on the same day. This gives us some very important information, like what happened to the drug shoe.

[Anonymous No.20309710]

3 is good, i like how the title floats and doesnt quite fit the space and how the yellow is sort of tennis-ball colored, giving the impression of a serve.

[Anonymous No.20309724]

>>20309633
Clouds indicating being high/substance abuse? That's how I've always seen it, it's why I think 1 is the perfect cover, "Infinite Jest" the in-book movie being high up in the clouds, sort of fading away, difficult to find and describe, indicating it's addictive nature, DFW's name being so prominent and large unintentionally signalling how much he himself as a person would come to overshadow the content of the book itself years after release (mainly by people who haven't read it)

[Anonymous No.20309733]

>>20307855
Give me the one with the clouds named after tits.

[Anonymous No.20309745]

In Although You End Up Becoming Yourself, DFW mentions his dislike of the cloud cover, saying it looks too much like an airline safety card. He wanted something like picrel for the cover, but his editor shot it down.

[Anonymous No.20309753]

8 is literally the only good one