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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:41 PM Author: swashbuckling tripping puppy associate ITT: You attempt to be edgy and cool by comparing Wallace to Franzen or Palahniuk without offering a substantive alternative.
I didn't think much of Brief Interviews With Hideous Men but I'm enjoying Infinite Jest. |
Date: May 12th, 2012 8:41 PM Author: Mahogany brunch no. he's shittier than franzen. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679073) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:41 PM Author: disturbing impertinent resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679077) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:41 PM Author: swashbuckling tripping puppy associate And who do you enjoy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679078) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:42 PM Author: Mahogany brunch print is dead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679081) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:44 PM Author: swashbuckling tripping puppy associate You sir are a terrible poster. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679097) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:52 PM Author: Mahogany brunch first of all, the guy is a straight up shitty, mannered writer. his prose is overblown bullshit.
second, he has nothing to say. |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:53 PM Author: Ultramarine bipolar genital piercing this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679181) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 9:11 PM Author: swashbuckling tripping puppy associate Thank you for the qualification. Now who do you enjoy? No one? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679281) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:20 PM Author: Ultramarine bipolar genital piercing Tolstoy, John Gardner, Austen, Melville among others (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679651) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:47 PM Author: Ultramarine bipolar genital piercing He sucks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679125) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:48 PM Author: Gaped stage To be fair,
Yes[1], but not[2] without qualification.[3] |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 9:11 PM Author: swashbuckling tripping puppy associate I see what you did there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679279) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:52 PM Author: vermilion diverse hominid people who are hurt Infinite Jest is a great book. Parts of the Pale King are good. A few of his essays are great, but his short stories are not good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679168) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 8:56 PM Author: Flickering Exciting Field I'd definitely hang out with him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679196) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 9:04 PM Author: apoplectic tanning salon stock car they all suck, tbh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679249) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 9:04 PM Author: Concupiscible Home Pervert No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679250) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 9:08 PM Author: magenta heaven http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1922907&mc=19&forum_id=2#20452743 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679269) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:00 PM Author: Ebony organic girlfriend His essays are interesting.
His novels are unwieldy messes. |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:03 PM Author: Marvelous soggy legal warrant point Entertaining and well done unwieldy messes. Just put your brain into it. Its less painful than reading Delilo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679532) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:04 PM Author: Mahogany brunch http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/another-thing-to-sort-of-pin-on-david-foster-wallace.html?pagewanted=all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679540) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:05 PM Author: Awkward light mental disorder Who among his contemporaries is better? Tolstoy wrote the shit out of the novel already, strip mined it pretty clean (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679543) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:06 PM Author: thriller lavender theater stage not to be hateful or anything, but a vapid, unreadable, pretentious faggot who knew it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679551) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:06 PM Author: Awkward light mental disorder contemporary u prefer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679557) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:18 PM Author: Ultramarine bipolar genital piercing Why does he need to be compared to current novelists? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679628) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:21 PM Author: disturbing impertinent resort Franzen rapes DFW (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679657) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:20 PM Author: Blue metal stain He far outclasses franzen and palahniuk, anybody who claims otherwise has no ear. Of course he has bad habits and some of his stylistic philosophy may be off the mark (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679650) |
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Date: May 12th, 2012 10:21 PM Author: Ultramarine bipolar genital piercing Palahniuk doesn't even aim for serious art. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1947224&forum_id=2#20679654) |