The book you want is Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Has a full on 2nd person narrative ever worked? There are times in plenty of books where 2nd person can start up, but that's fine, because it'll switch back to 1st or 3rd. I've never read a book entirely written in the 2nd person that didn't make me think it was just a dumb gimmick book.

Pretentiousness is kind of Rick Moody's bread and butter. I took a fiction class by the guy once and we did not see things in the same light at all. Had a little bit of an argument with him. He's smart, obviously, and I like some of his introduction up there, but whenever I read anything by him, even if it's good,…

Haha, okay, here's what we'll do, bud. You write me a thesis paper on why you're more perceptive or noteworthy than, say, Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, or Sartre, or my dumb 47 year old stoner roommate Barry. You give your definition of a profound thought (I'll even leave that definition up to you!). You also devise a…

What, you read David Foster Wallace but you don't like James Joyce? I don't like Joyce that much, but he's got much prettier sentences than Wallace.

Oh, I think it just hasn't been released yet, if I'm remembering right.

Get off the internet and go read a book, you fuckin monkey, and stop screaming.

Oh man, I couldn't finish it either. It was too much for me. He put out a decent collection of 4 short stories recently. Those were a lot more manageable, but Witz is denser than Ulysses, and a lot less beautiful.

I wish Colbert would use his powers to just mess with people sometimes. Like, he gives the bump to Joshua Cohen's 800-page word-stew "Witz" or, whatever, the complete works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, who he pretends is some contemporary French-Canadian writer of historical fiction.

Possibly. It's clunky, but it's not necessarily dumb or false. I'm not saying True Detective is Shakespeare, but I think that the stuff it talks about isn't "faux" philosophy. The writer might not be great, but I think he's at least more eloquent and interesting than, say, the writers of Fargo.

It's not that deep but it's not that hard to understand either?

Do people in Bemidji talk like that? I have no idea.

I don't know. Not really more incomprehensible than Nietzsche. I don't think "faux" is the right way to describe it though. The basic ideas as far as I figure are at the very least as old as Schopenhauer, and probably some of it is as old as the Upanishads. Eternal recurrence and all that.

Cigars are cocks.

But really he'd be creating popcorn and he would just pretend that nobody in the world has ever done it before.

Faux-philosophical how?

It's possible that I don't really know, since I've only lived in Minnesota for a few years and during that time only in the Twin Cities area, but having traveled a little north, I have a lot of trouble with the OUTRAGEOUSLY cartoonish accents and the "simplicity" of some of the cops… "Minnesota nice" is true…

"But its own thirst for blood this season has gotten in the way of Thrones’ fundamental truth: a connection and reconnection to empathy and understanding, a lens that offers not just brutality, but also the assiduous follow-through of healing, grieving, and surviving."

I have never been able to appreciate DeLillo to the extent that his reputation suggests I should. I mean, I think he has decent moments, but I just don't like his style very much. And a lot of his weird little dry paragraphs, and their attempts at describing consumerist culture, strike me as incredibly obvious and…

Generally, when I'm reading a book, I throw the book away and go watch a movie.