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Have you read it? It certainly should be. It can be self indulgent but self indulgent =! Bad. The White Album by the Beatles is self indulgent and it’s insanely good.

Not sure if it actually will end up in it though.

It already is, and if Bloom wasn't autistic there wouldn't even be a discussion

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If Bloom’s goofy ass didn’t hate on it without reading it this wouldn’t even be a question.

The fact that people still defend this pile of self -indulgent masturbatory drivel is proof enough that true literature is dead, so sure throw it in.
It'll go in the canon right alongside harry potter.
And self-indulgence isn't bad, but when you have zero intelligent ideas for an entire lifetime, it's not something to write a book about.
This bullshit has damaged literature with its prevalence.
>inb4 hurr durr harold bloom
suck a dick fags, try reading a real book

>uhhh be sincere guys and stop being an intellectual
>btw here's a subpar bloated collection I wrote with a Replace With Thesaurus plug-in I found online
Hideous Men is great but IJ is doodoo

The opening scene at Dodger Stadium was great.

Only realism and modernism can be canon

What about postrealism or postmodernism?

>t. Harold Bloom
Reminder to everyone to mention this book to an art hoe so they can seethe at you.

why would they seethe?

You don't even get the book man. It's meta-satire.

>he hasn't seen the hordes of womyn English majors write their twitlongers about David Foster Wallace and Infinite Jest

Yeah, too bad there are 750 more pages.

>google infinite jest
>one of the first results is "Why Insufferable People Love Infinite Jest"
Literally everyone I've met who reads DFW are really chill, humble people. He doesn't even get talked about that much from what I've seen. What do people have against him?

yes?

it's mostly art hoes with inferiority complexes directed towards their male counterparts.

Based.
Can't wait for the 1500 page meta-ironic litero-slapstick of The Family Circus.

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book to big for small brain

t. Pynchon

Since this is a meme book thread, might as well ask here.
I'm 420 pages into Gravity's Rainbow and I'm not enjoying most of it. I'm on a boring Pokler chapter aobut designing the Rocket. Does it pick up again later, like it did at the Casino part? Or should I just drop it and move on to Infinite Jest?

keep going with GR, it just gets crazier and more fun.

English departments across the country are attempting to self-destruct by hating everything canon or canon related. DFW represents the last of the evil old guard.

no he needs to have been dead for 150+ years to be canon

I'll force an erection and have a fau 2 drop on your house within 4 days if that's bullshit, user

No. I like that book, but you've already read a representative chunk. It will go off the wall, becoming more fragmented and unpredictable, and a lot more ridiculous. but if you don't like it so far, those bits will mostly just annoy you.

That's jews deconstructing our history and literary culture from the top down, it's very intentional.

>you don't get it
Why is this always your faggots response as well.
Surprise motherfucker, I read the book, guess what, it fucking sucks and none of the shit you morons claim to be intelligent about it was original or creative. In fact, DFW shows a clear misunderstanding of proper thematic elements anytime he tries to be sincere, which is disgustingly ironic considering he whined about the lack of sincerity non-stop.

Can writing ever be "sincere", since you're essentially trying to manipulate the reader in some way?

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You're nearing the end of the comprehensible, and shit is about to get zany.

Beating it to traps doesn’t count as straight but being a sexually dominant bi male is close enough

Have not read this book, but if a writer misunderstands the tools needed to communicate a theme but is also interested in being sincere, that is not in any way ironic, it is only unfortunate.

>he didn't get it

I'm further than you, almost out of the Zone and I'm going to have to disagree with the others. If you haven't enjoyed most of it up to that point I don't think "shit getting crazy" is going to turn your opinion around. On the other hand you're more than half way done, might as well finish it unless continuing to read it makes you suicidal or something. It does "pick up" soon in terms of Slothrop's plot continuing in interesting ways.

Also that "boring Pökler chapter" is one of the best, and isn't just about "designing the Rocket" so at least finish that