What’d you think?

Goated

Doing now, what probably a lot of you guys did, which is looking up what people online said about certain theories…

I wish there was like better place to discuss it on here because I don’t wanna spoil anything for people who haven’t read it but yeah, it was really really good imo best book I’ve ever read.

I read it in just under 6 weeks with plans to start last year I never got around to

Love to hear you loved it. There's something about the language (delete your map) and the lives the characters have that just sticks with me. I find myself thinking of the kids playing Eschaton like basically every week. It captured something so strange and lifelike about both being on a high school sports team and being in Alcoholics Anonymous that constantly come back to me like I know the characters

I’m glad that I was at least familiar with some of the Boston slang like things like triple-decker, And that also I’m fluent in French because then that made certain things easier for me and also understanding the way that Marathe Speaking in English Having its specific cadence?

The eschaton match Was one of the most laugh out loud funny scenes for me, but I definitely laughed out loud at a ton of Different scenes…. Definitely do feel like you got to know the characters after reading it in a way where you’re finding yourself like “that’s so Don/Pemulis/Himself etc.” or things like that lol

I’m not sure if I read it again right away. I did already started it again, but I’m wondering what you and other people in this thread think? are you the original op?

Lmao I am not op. I haven't read it again since the first time maybe 2 or 3 years ago. I often think about it but there's just too much else to read that I can't justify another 80 hours on it. But I rarely reread anything. I think the cool synergy upon reread is the beginning and end linking up, so maybe only reading the first portion would give you enough of the feeling of understanding it better 🤷‍♀️

Fair fair, I reread a lot of books , if only because , it’s when I’m at a different point in my life when I reread em’ and then I feel I always take something new away that I didn’t get the first read

Usually shorter books though, Vonnegut, Phillip K D***, Tom Robbins etc.

What are you reading right now?

A Savage War of Peace - history book about the Algerian war of independence and The Fellowship of the Ring. I admire that, I have a lot I often think about going back to read

I believe the social commentary online behind this entire novel has been reduced to “what kind of person are you?” rather than any critical a***ysis of it. Whether it’s the fault of people who seriously adore it or those who find the novel and author pretentious; it has garnered a vehemently discourse that rarely discusses the subject itself because when it comes down to the pen, Wallace can write like no other.

There are several threads within the novel that you could genuinely flesh out into another novel. There are whole passages which contain some of the best writing in modern literature.

“Things you learn living in a halfway house” is my favourite thing ever written. It just creeps up on you out of nowhere and hooks you in for an entire chapter. Also, the section on video calling is just as striking; how companies introduced it, people became increasingly insecure about being seen, filters were created to enhance appearances, and eventually the whole thing became too exhausting to maintain, pushing everyone back to regular calls. It’s an incredible prediction.

I could talk about this book for days. Have you seen “The End of the Tour”.

I’ve only recently heard about this book and now want to give it a read, 1000 pages gonna kill me off though

Yeah, that video calling part was so well written… And I think it was in an endnote too? If I’m not mistaken, it was at least Introduced in a section about Hal’s Essay on the collapse of the big 4 And the reasons behind it and then the formation of interlace? I might be mixing things up, but yeah amazing book I have not seen that movie. I just looked it up and I do really want to watch it

What characters aside from like the main five(?) did you grow to like most and have read it more than once now?

Buddy, it’s amazing but it’s also 1000 pages with like almost 400 end notes some of which Could be their own little sections lmao

Just give yourself time to read it. It’s a really good book if you have any interest in it.

finished it today