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Has anyone heard of the writers Joshua Cohen or Adam Levin?

most intellectual writers

hahahaha
I'm just a young'un so not very widely read yet

list em

have u noticed how often (or is it frequently?) wallace uses
"which" to modify something (i'm no grammar expert, though) followed by the thing being modified (i guess to specify what is being...

islandclimber,
thanks for that link


there are actually quite a few that hold it close to me
the los angeles public library has a copy
so i'll def check that out

Idk if the overlap is significant

but i'm noticing a lot similarities in syntax, vocabulary, and just language in general

i've only read 100 pages of the crying lot of 49
and most of infinite...

on amazon only a few sellers have it and they're charging over a hundred dollars

do libraries carry it?
not the ones i've checked

Kathy Acker's "In Memorium to Identity"
Donald Antrim's "The Hundred Brothers"
Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin"
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine"

what r ur thoughts on the actual books though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century%E2%80%99s_Greatest_Hits:_100_English-Language_Books_of_Fiction



what do u think of it

I'm reading it right now

I just can't follow these tangents
like right now they're at the play and my brain's just not registering what's going on

for some reason I just get bored when I try to read books of the canon
that aren't impressive stylistically

there should be a canon for style

ya conversational reading i had been checking out

very smart guy there on that site

and so knowledgeable
the dude's in his early twenties

how's the pale king?

^thx

can we get some more answers in here

impressive

yes/10

^ i also have one

go

someone start

"Somehow I have always preferred the idea of reading rather than the act in itself, and consequently I waste much time enjoying the idea rather than the act."

same

i avg about 0 minutes per day...

uhhh, like is it weak on plot?


it' plot is very complex
i didn't read it for its plot though
nobody does i think


there were plenty of individual scenes, many seemingly unrelated to the...

I know of Sarvas's Elegant Variation

what else

also which is better, LRB, NYRB, or TLS?

I had a subscription to NYRB, but there were way too many essays on politics/world affairs and...

gonna have to go with
david foster wallace

read infinite jest and you will know what i mean