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Old 02-21-2012, 03:35 PM   #11
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Re: What are you reading now?

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I'm working on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. You don't read it, you work it, it's 1000 plus pages with footnotes. I'm enjoying it and hope to finish it one day.
I worked it over about a year, some of those 5 page paragraphs are really hard to get thru. W/o giving anything away, let me just say that I don't understand, even a little bit, all of the great reviews it received. Don't get me wrong, there are parts of it that are very entertaining, and thought provoking, but well I'll just leave it at that and let you come to your own conclusions. I'll admit, I may not be smart enough to appreciate its depth. Many of the reviews come off as pretentious after having read it myself, but to each their own. For the amount of work I know it takes to slug thru that thing, I hope you end up enjoying as much as many others have apparently have.

I started it mostly based on C Trent's mention of the book and the forward by David Eggers who I read once and really enjoyed. I wish I hadn't.

Good luck, I'd love to hear your opinions when you're done.

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