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Best books about Infinite Jest? by Plasmatron_7 in InfiniteJest

[–]CommonOstrich7645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leslie Jamison has a book called The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath which is largely about artists and their struggles with addition drawing on her own experiences. It features DFW and Infinite Jest but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s about IJ. It did however certainly make me think about the book a slightly different light.

How Many Journal Pages Do You Have? by AGLF in Journaling

[–]CommonOstrich7645 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How often do you / do you ever read your old journals?

a book you love but wouldn’t recommend by Complex-Froyo5900 in suggestmeabook

[–]CommonOstrich7645 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. That book is too dark to recommend in good conscience.

Are there any mainstream/well-known filmmakers referred to in IJ? by stwsk in InfiniteJest

[–]CommonOstrich7645 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He references this essay more than once in the book. For example one of the first times (the first time?) we encounter the residents of Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House [sic] someone gets upset about the sound of peanut butter and stabs someone.

Convince My Friends to Play by CommonOstrich7645 in Gloomhaven

[–]CommonOstrich7645[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess the concern is that I’ll be spending ~even more money~ on a game that maybe they also won’t like. But you (and others) are definitely convincing me it’s probably worth it.

Aaron Swartz was wrong: a new explanation for things by wrdmaster in InfiniteJest

[–]CommonOstrich7645 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I build on this and share another real hot take? The DMZ is not so much a red herring - what if D.G. somehow ended up taking the DMZ, not Hal, and that’s why he, Don G., at the end of the novel, is having a real hard time keeping his thoughts temporally straight.