So why even is this book considered so great? I don't get it.

>read book
>"!?" is used at the end of an excited character's sentence

Can we stop the "start with the greeks" meme? This is a much better starting point for literature.

When a book introduces a character how do you go about forming their design? I start out picturing them as described in the book but over time they change until I have a clear picture in my head of who the character is, which is sometimes very different than initially described. In my weeaboo days I pictured everyone as an anime character

>And then I named him Hilbert-Spaess xDDD only REAL nerds will get this haha
Gravity's Rainbow is literally just The Martian for wannabe intellectuals fuck this book.

I started reading books "seriously" about 2 months ago, so far i readed some entry level books like, Norwegian Wood, Catcher in the rye, brave new world, the stranger... And now im really interested in reading infinite jest after reading some coments on it and watching a few dfw interviews, but im scared that the book will be too much for me because im a total pleb. ¿Should i buy it /lit/?

Im quite open minded to art and i really like avant garde films and music, so i dont mind if i dont understand the book at first but im afraid of buying it and then abandon it after the few hundreds of pages :(

Thank you in advance

Hey there /lit/, I need an information regarding a novel by Bret Easton.

As I'm aware about the fact that the novel American Psycho was first published by Vintage New York in the year 1991 in paperback format (the book wasn't published in hardcover in the United States until 2012). So, the thing I want to know is the time when Vintage Books New York first published this book did it had (pic realated) cover?

Whenever I try to read for extended periods of time I tend to give up and lose concentration after about two hours.

Any tips for marathon reading?

random pic from calibre unrelated