You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

RE: Infinite Jest, The Second Steemit Book Club Begins This Monday: Details Inside

in #books8 years ago

Infinite Jest is a difficult book to read alone, IMHO.
Only recently, I learned about David Foster Wallace, and I bought two of his books: "Infinite Jest" and "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".
The second book is my current "breakfast book" that I am reading slowly while eating my breakfast, when I am alone. Infinite Jest could not be a "breakfast book".
I started reading Infinite Jest first, but I stopped after around 100 pages.

As Dave Eggers in the 2006 Foreword says:
The point is that it's for all these reasons -- acclaimed, daunting, not-lazy, drum-tight,
very funny (we did not mention that yes but yes) -- that you picked up this book.
Will you actually read it?
I don't like when stop to read a book that I like, but I found it too hard to read it alone.

So, I am happy that Infinite Jest is the second book in the Steemit Book Club.
I'll be there on Monday.

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.21
TRX 0.20
JST 0.034
BTC 91530.30
ETH 3127.22
USDT 1.00
SBD 3.07