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Whats /lit/ opinion on DFW?

>> No.9531944

Banal

>> No.9531949

eh

he was an alright writer but thinking about him in person is nauseating. How lame.

>> No.9531950

Looks like a total dick. Can't get passed that enough to read his stuff.

>> No.9531998

>>9531795
Pale King is legit one of the greatest books of the 21st century

>> No.9532001

>>9531795
Why did he killed himself?

>> No.9532019

>>9531795
but what IS water? gimme 4 years of schooling so i can finally figure out at the graduation

>> No.9532091

No discernable talent

>> No.9532667

>>9531795
99% cooler and better and more awesomer and sweeter and smarter than anyone on this board ever in all of history full stop both ways to yesteryear (part 2)/

>> No.9532676

>>9531795
Terrible.

>> No.9532681

LE COOL BANDANA MAN

stupid faggot

>> No.9532690

>>9532681
Wait, are you making fun of his bandana? Why? The bandana is awesome, I bet you're virgin and live in your mother basement. I don't blame you though. The bandana only looks good in handsome people.

>> No.9532700

Shit desu.

I loved Infinite Jest after reading it but then after I read more books I realised its actually kind of bad. New sincerity was a mistake. Its literally 1000 pages of overeducated white guy problems.

>> No.9532712

>>9532667
cringe

>> No.9532794

>>9532667
>>9532712
Actually I withdraw my 'cringe' statement if you were being satirical on second thought

>> No.9532910

>>9531795

i am in the water but i am drowning

the screams captured in the air bubbles carry no sound

>> No.9532922

>>9531998
It's not even complete

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>>9532700
>overeducated

>> No.9534011

>>9532700
>>9532948
When people say "overeducated," don't they usually mean "highly educated but still a total putz"?

>> No.9534056

>>9532794
Aww that's kinda sweet of you :3
>>9531795
Infinite Jest is good. He seems like an aight guy. Reading about his suicide was pretty sad desu.

>> No.9534062
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9534062

Was he the first one to coin the term "audience pussy"?

>> No.9534093

>>9531795
MODS

>> No.9534480

>>9531795
Interesting dude who wrote some decent books. Probably won't change your life but won't hurt you either. People on here used to meme him as the GOAT now they meme him as being shit. Read him and get your own opinion. Brief Interviews is a pretty good starting point.

>> No.9534505

Cultural icon wannabe (a bandana? really?) who clouds everything in obscurantism in hopes that people will somehow perceive his work as meaningful

>> No.9534582

He shot himself in the foot doing interviews and exposing himself so much. Probably why he's so polarized on here. I'm neutral these days. I've found some great writing in IJ but it's buried in so much blather. What's it? Expository or something? Whatever that style of writing is, I'm not its biggest fan. But DFW was well above average talent wise.

>> No.9534717

Great prose stylist, innovative, high verbal IQ. Honest. Not a revolutionary thinker. I wouldn't mind if he was still alive and writing

>> No.9534879
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9534879

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/david-foster-wallace-genius-fabulist-would-be-murderer/261997/

>> No.9534888

>>9532922
Neither the century.

>> No.9536258

>>9532700
for an american "overeducated" means finishing highschool, right?

>> No.9536267

>>9531795

Depressing reminder of how bad the modern novel is.

>> No.9536501

>>9531998
>>9532922
>>9534888
Well fuck

>> No.9536535

>>9531795
Favorite writer. I get depressed when I think too hard on his death

>> No.9537135

wish he was dead desu

>> No.9537143

I have never read him, but people keep suggesting him to me since we apparently think along the same lines, especially since I hate ironic people. The cult of DFW really puts me off though, I would hate to be one of those people.

>> No.9537300

You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

I was upset when the National Book Award gave Stephen King a special award in 2003, but Stephen King is Cervantes compared to David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.

Wallace seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’

>> No.9537307

>>9536535
Same desu

>> No.9537367

>>9537143
then don't. just read

>> No.9537373

>>9531795

No discernible talent

>> No.9537570

>>9534011
Educated beyond their actual intelligence level.

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9537965

>>9532700
>overeducated

>> No.9537990

>>9537143
Caring about being/or being seen as "one of those people" that you would hate to be makes you one of them. DFW was trapped in his caring about how others saw him. Read the book or don't. Form your own opinion. Don't think about what groups you end up being a part of.