/lit/ - Literature

>>1691212
>Somebody post something different so we can talk about it. And if you see a thread that is different, do your best to discuss the book, instead of complaining

No comment.

You're part of the problem. It would've been easier to just post about a book you wanted to talk about.

>>1686638
Favorite book threads are worthless. At I'm not.

Guess which word I'd choose.


Here's a hint: it's mcgregor.

>>1686602

I am.

>>1686599
Who acted in Trainspotting, which jacked a scene from Gravity's Rainbow. This is now a McGregor Pynchon thread.

>>1686578

Who's the real mcgrego?

>>1686588
>mfw no picture

favorite mcgregor thread? let's do this

pic related

Sure are a lot of people trying to be me on /lit/ today.

>>1686566
Sorry, meant to post this under my name

>>1686542
Yeah. My interpretation is that this would be simply too boring to write about in a book that's already too long (but not long enough). I think it's even more fun to use the Hamlet reference and mess around with interpretations of the role of JO and Hal. This book really appeals to all sorts of minds. The best part is that the fun really starts when you're done reading.

>>1686540
Well so far I like what you've posted today, mcgregor2. I guess keep up the good work...?

>>1686526
I'm a nationalist, but not a socialist and certainly not a National Socialist. I'd recommend completing IJ. If you like Gaddis it'd probably be up your alley, but obviously you've already read some of it. In the middle of the Pale King DFW actually mentions that he wished to be an "important novelist a la Gaddis" or something like that, in a fictional non-fictional Author's Foreword. Then he talks about how his first experience in creative writing was writing papers for other students in their voice and style. He doesn't make the obvious connection with the Recognitions, but maybe he figures you will if you care, or maybe he would've put it in or taken that part out completely. Anyways both are good. Both mcgregors are good too I guess.

>>1686522
There's no way for one of us to prove that one of us is actually mcgregor. This is interesting. Didn't think anybody paid that much attention to me to post under my name. Also, my doppelganger posted a rather good post in the Infinite Jest thread under my name. The funny thing is, I've never finished Infinite Jest. I wonder why the doppelganger isn't posting crazy Nazi rhetoric or something to, like, lower my reputation (of which I thought I had zero)

If you're suggesting that the second option precludes the first, then I don't know if you'll ever be pleased.

Nope. I like Jessica Fletcher more

>>1686501
Sigh.

>>1686498
This shit is good, but I dunno about the longest cocktail party scene thing. The Dead was probably longer, but I guess I haven't done a page count. But really a bunch of stuff is probably longer; that scene isn't that long. Regardless, this book is great.

>hilarious
>epic
>complex
>longest cocktail party scene in literary history

I thought the ending was perfect. It takes a while to grow on you because there's a period where you feel exhausted and totally let down. Then you come to realize that it was necessary to really convey the emotional ups-and-downs associated with withdrawal from anything. Then of course once you start it over again, you'll realize that not only has it not ended, but that it never will. It's satisfying in its incompletion and the language of the last quarter of the book is just beautiful. It's cathartic in the way it rips you out of a fantasy world forces you to face what's around you, what you've been presumably ignoring to finish this monsterpiece.

The "helpfulness" of a review is sort of measured. The more helpful reviews tend to pop up first. I use them for just getting an overall sense of what people think.

Somebody has a very helpful chart but I didn't save it the last time I saw it. Hopefully somebody can post it for you.

>>1686462
Honestly, man, nobody cares enough about me to care if you keep trolling with my name. Go ahead. I'm going to become a tripfag, I guess and deal with it. Also, quit de-railing the thread, you troll.