Roger Ebert's wife

[Guest DaGoodz]

 

 

 

apparently roger ebert shares my liking for a little chocolate milk if you smell what dagoodz is cookin!

 

rumor around the HOLL-E-WOOD scene is he likes to masturbate to the national geographic magazines with the large negro women exposing their bulbous milky breasteses!

[Guest *KNK*]

I disapprove of skinny Roger.

[The Czech Republic]

Well, you're necessary

[Youth N Asia]

That pic would be a million times better if Rog had a hat with a feather in it and a cane

[Giuseppe Zangara]

If I still did Katarami Damacy to this board's bad posts, the first one in this thread would be sig material.

[The Czech Republic]

Hey Inc, I just picked up Infinite Jest this evening. Looks like this should keep me busy.

 

EDIT: Yeah, this is going to take me a while indeed. This feels like an intensified Youth In Revolt; I don't know if you read that one, though.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I haven't heard of it.

 

I realize IJ is this huge fucking thing, but I found it so complusively readable that it takes me aback when people I've gotten to read it (well, start reading it, anyway) say they have trouble getting into the story.

 

fake edit: I looked up YiR on Amazon; that's obviously not giving me much to go on, comparison-wise, but I guess both books feature neurotic teenagers as its center. Is there something about the prose that made you think of the Payne book? Because Hal's first person narration drops out within the first hundred pages and doesn't return until several hundred pages later.

 

Man, I really need to read IJ again.

[The Czech Republic]

Nick Twisp (main protagonist/narrator in YiR) and Hal Incandenza are both impossibly precocious and have vocabularies so large, that even I had to consult a thesaurus a few times. A lot of big words just for the sake of using big words.

 

I can't tell yet, but if IJ involves wholly implausible plotlines (in YiR, Nick starts a fire that destroys a bunch of restaurants in downtown Berkeley and enrolls at his girlfriend's school somewhere else as a girl and is never found out), that would be another similarity.

 

Both characters seem to come from very strange families, though the Incandenzas are probably a lot better off than the Twisps, who aren't rich and quirky, rather poor and pathetic.

 

IJ doesn't seem as horny as YiR so far, though. I dunno. I'm just like 50 pages in. Half the 500-page book is a sesquipedalian sex scene, I swear. You could check it out if you want, I enjoyed it when I read it two summers ago.

[The Czech Republic]

Oh I just realized I never finished Vernon God Little. I started that on New Year's Eve and put it on the shelf when I found out the only reason it was recommended to me by a friend was because Val Emmich recommended it to her.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

I thought Roger had an Asian chick. Oh well, more power to him...

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Nick Twisp (main protagonist/narrator in YiR) and Hal Incandenza are both impossibly precocious and have vocabularies so large, that even I had to consult a thesaurus a few times. A lot of big words just for the sake of using big words.

 

I can't tell yet, but if IJ involves wholly implausible plotlines (in YiR, Nick starts a fire that destroys a bunch of restaurants in downtown Berkeley and enrolls at his girlfriend's school somewhere else as a girl and is never found out), that would be another similarity.

 

Both characters seem to come from very strange families, though the Incandenzas are probably a lot better off than the Twisps, who aren't rich and quirky, rather poor and pathetic.

 

IJ doesn't seem as horny as YiR so far, though. I dunno. I'm just like 50 pages in. Half the 500-page book is a sesquipedalian sex scene, I swear. You could check it out if you want, I enjoyed it when I read it two summers ago.

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Hal's very asexual, but not in a creepy, Michael Jackson way. I'm not spoiling anything by saying that, as IJ progresses, one of Hal's quirks is that he's incapable of feeling any emotion outside of dread.

[The Czech Republic]

I've never had to read a book at such a deliberate pace. I usually blow through novels, but I feel like with this one, I've really gotta make sure I absorb every single word.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Wallace throws so much information at you, so it helps to take your time. Also, when you get to the page that lists the first decade of Subsidized Time, keep an extra bookmark handy. It'll give you better frame of reference for when the events take place.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

A friend of mine had a copy of Youth in Revolt in 9th grade, and none of the school administrators were particularly pleased about that, since it had developed a bit of a reputation as a lascivious little thing. For whatever reasons he passed it around the county and had everyone who read it sign the inside cover. I'm pretty sure the entire page ended up filled. I remember enjoying it then, but 8 years later I can't remember a damn thing about it, except for the crossdressing and the kid with the bent penis.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I got The Satanic Bible confiscated in eighth grade.