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afonsoihenriques asked: How long ago did you read it? Do you think it was borng bcuz ur too yung and would like it now, or is it because it actually is boring
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White Noise? In keeping with the parallel I think 12 or 13?

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I think it just came down to what I hate about \u201cliterary\u201d and like about \u201cgenre\u201d fiction, there was no fucking plot, or to the extent there was it was thematic rather than load-bearing.

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Like I\u2019m trying to remember what happened and there\u2019s the Airborne Toxic Event and\u2026 the protagonist watches freshmen move in on their first day of college?

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I remember a description of some luggage on the roof rack of a car at a gas station that was supposed to Mean Something About How We Live Today, I remember there being a lot of stuff like that and I remember thinking \u201cthis must be that \u2018K-Mart Realism\u2019 I\u2019ve heard of\u201d.

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(in like a copy of The Nation I read at the library - I now don\u2019t think that\u2019s quite right)

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I mean Infinite Jest\u2019s plot threads never resolved and wandered into absurdism a few times and were mostly a scaffold for the writing and the insight, but at least they were there, you know?

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Yeah, if I read it today I\u2019d probably get more out of it as a fable of how the 70s became the 80s, maybe I should.

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