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Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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@charliee.w Год назад

dude this book has occupied years of my life, you have no idea how fkn excited i got when i did my every couple month search of the title and saw a 32 min vid by someone 2 mo ago??!! hell yes .

@superdupertyson 9 дней назад

I just listened to a bit of infinite jest audiobook and wanted to read it while I had a small holiday, but I thought I'd take a shorter book for the trip, coincidently hamlet it turned out to be. Thing is I haven't read Shakespeare since high-school Macbeth and I was out of my depth trying to understand the language without a study guide, but I will definitely persevere through it now.

@isaacranchly2458 9 месяцев назад

This is by far the best synopsis of this book I've ever heard! Very well said. Also hyped when you brought up the conversation with his father. That hit me in such a real way. Listening to this man's ego crack open in front of his son was wild. Hearing him monologue about his ideologies on life, while at the same time mirroring it with his breakdown, and living vicariously through his sons success. Oof. Anyways, great stuff. Keep it up!

@adamcoil5841 Год назад

Watching you discuss your favorite moments from the book made me remember how magical it was to read IJ for the first time… looking forward to revisiting it soon for sure!

@user-wb2yv7ll9d 5 дней назад

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@DiegoMDeras Год назад

Thanks so much for making this video man. Just finished my first pass through the book and really enjoyed it and was just looking for a sort of discussion type analysis type video. Subscribed, cheers from Argentina.

@kate9341 Год назад

I would say it's YA for intellectuals :)) One of my favourite books ever

@budg.6094 11 дней назад

First off: IJ is my all time favorite book. Still, there were times when the casual slang/vernacular was a little too much for me. “B#” did bother me at first, but DFW did say in an interview that the book was partially about, e.g., messing with maps, so I cut him a break on this one. “Humming a chord,” did not do much for me. “Minor d” I did not like, at all. It was not messing with a map, it was more like an affectation. Still, I will never enjoy another book as much as this one.

@justmeeagainn Год назад

Great video. Nice job.

@yaeli_i_guess Год назад

also the cartridge itself infinite jest has a smiley face on it, it symbolizes addiction imo in gately's dreams the smiley could be the face of addiction and it makes sense that the cartridge, that is addicting, has it on it too

@yaeli_i_guess Год назад

i loved this book so much. (this comment contains spoilers for those who haven't read it) i finished it last night and i really felt understood and like it changed me, especially the parts about achievement and the academy spoke to me in a really deep way because i'm currently in academia in a competitive field where i feel the need to compare myself to others (in the academy they constantly are aware of their ranking against others too which i found interesting\part of the pressure of being a future athlete) i really loved how they teach them to both care and not care at the same time, care enough to put in the work and effort to succeed at tennis but also not care so that if you fail you won't be shattered and eliminate your own map the way clipperton did. i don't know. it's a brilliant book. after finishing i'm now reading some theories on how it all fits together in terms of the different plotlines (it's how i got to this video haha) and i have a deeper appreciation on how phenomenal it is. nothing is spoon fed to you and most of the important plot points happen "off frame" and you have to figure out what happened (in terms of john wayne being with the a.f.r, hal and gately and joelle digging up james' grave etc.) and it was a really unique reading experience that trusts the reader to put in the effort and really rewards you for sticking with all those pages and difficult words.

@dbag57 7 месяцев назад

#addictive

@Etherchannel Год назад

I am not sure how you were able to read that edition you have. The text was so small for me I had to toss it for a different edition.

@dharmatycoon Год назад

Hahaha wow you were lucky picking up Hamlet like that!

@paulandreigillesania5359 Год назад

I want to ask, is it an easy/quick read? I have a copy of it i only purchased last year with Cloud Atlas and it's the most interesting on its own merit (within its own pages) knowing little about DFW...

@readreadofficial Год назад

Ahh I would not describe it as easy or quick, haha. I think it ended up taking me about 70-80 hours to read the book. That being said, the book is written (intentionally) in a seductive way, so I was pretty much gripped from start to finish. But it is a commitment, and probably not the first place to start with DFW. I started with his essay collections, but if you have it and you feel like it's time, go for Infinite Jest. It's the sort of book that just keeps getting better and better, and I'm definitely interested in doing a reread within 5 years.