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Ahahah, if we needed to reprint INFINITE JEST, we would just do that. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper than a whole new jacket and increased page count, that's for fuckin' sure.
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
It's like listening to music for notes that are out of the key instead of just letting yourself feel the emotion of it.Yeah, but out of key notes jump out at you, and so does bad writing. That's the whole point.
― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 30 November 2006 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
even back when little sterl read ij right when it came out i was somewhat dubious about its reread value even tho there were, as i recall, some very well executed passages. haven't followed his work since as much as i should. the essays i found for the most part pretty irritating in a sort of making-things-more-complicated-than-necessary way with the exception of the lynch one, which was v. sharp.
ij, the thing is, always felt as sprawly and adolescent as its main character, and i guess read as a book being about that its pretty good, but when ppl. try to read more into it is when i go batty and get more turned off dfw qua dfw than i should.
always liked that "westward path of the empire" short story tho, as well as some of the other material in "girl with the curious hair."
now onto the thing about eggers putting adverbs at the end of sentences, repeatedly, delimited by a comma. doing so adds finality, firmly. it's as though the thought is complete and then as a coda, there's the afterthought, dangling. doing so interrupts the flow in the middle of paragraphs, jarringly, pointlessly. also, it implies that the closing adverb isn't central to the thought which isn't the case in the screaming sentence, irritatingly.
― sterlclover, Thursday, 30 November 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link
ok i note sometimes its the adverb and sometimes an adjective or even a clause, clarifying.
― sterlclover, Thursday, 30 November 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link
"(Am I the only one to have read all the books in the Canopus in Argos series?)"
maria has. like ten times. but she's a freak. she tried to get me to read them and i looked at her like she was made out of the funny papers.
― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 30 November 2006 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link