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22710738 No.22710738 [Reply] [Original]

This MOGS Infinite Jest and does everything it does but for the Internet Age.

>> No.22710924

>>22710738
It’s bizarre to me that these novels are compared to one another. Were the late 90/early 2000s so starved of postmodern satirisation that any attempt at its rendering begs competition with any other? Beside, Infinite Jest is far superior. Bleeding Edge is just Pynchon riffing on Gibson’s Pattern Recognition is just Gibson riffing on Pynchon’s TCoL49 is just Pynchon riffing on Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo. And what of Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, itself riffing a little too heavily on IJ, what with its video tape macguffin, if one is to consider further the reductive or tainted genealogy of Pynchon BE? Anon, it’s all DFW.

>> No.22710963

>>22710738
Out of touch boomer tries to write about technology and the present day and spaghetti all over himself. Many such cases!

>> No.22711165

>>22710738
Pynchon didn't write Bleeding Edge. His son did.

>> No.22711170

>>22710924
Infinite Jest is shit

>> No.22711176

It's even worse than Against the Day, and that's the exceptional about it.

>>22710963
>Pollard, Promis/INSLAW
>refuses to elaborate

There probably was a Y2K pre-digital apocalypse market for a novel, this ain't it. Goofy bucktoothed codger should've tapped out with M & D.

>> No.22711181

>>22711176
How so?