David, my son. You are accomplished author now. You must choose. You pick nice clothes and be remembered as a brilliant diagnostician of postmodern malaise. Or you wear bandana and become a meme on a Zimbabwean Pottery Forum [...]
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DFW wrote the way he thought actual authors wrote, and of course it turned out pompous, overblown & deeply insincere. His particular brand of pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness, sentimental kitsch, and mawkish musings is physically revolting to anyone who isn't a literal retard.
I don't believe that anyone who would write this could have engaged seriously with his writing
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As Bret Easton Ellis said, David Foster Wallace's only positive contribution to literature was killing himself.
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I can understand criticism of DFW, but BEE is a totally vacuous writer. Whether or not that is the point hardly matters
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I don't believe that anyone who would write this could have engaged seriously with his writing
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I read him as a teen (American Psycho, Less than Zero and The Rules of Attraction) and found the intentional vacuousness thrilling for a while, but it didn't last. Every work is practically the same
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I take issue with Wallace being called "kitsch" because it seems to come from the assumption (usually of those on /lit/ who haven't read him) that he was a peddler of cliches as sincerity, which is not at all true
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