Just interested to know what books people are into right now...
I'm currently reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Has anyone read it before? It's quite verbose and has a quirky narrative style. The book is interesting to say the least. Kind of tedious, though.
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Originally Posted by Jyqm
!!! I'm sorry. Can I suggest that the reason you may not be enjoying it is because you're reading three other books at the same time? Ulysses really demands full attention, and book of annotations or at least a guide through the schemata never hurts the first time around. It's not a book that necessarily can or should be read the way you read most other books, and it can definitely be a very unenjoyable experience if you're not totally clear on what's going on in each chapter. How far along are you?
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Oh, sorry I never responded to this! I actually did not get very far into
Ulyses. I believe I only finished the first hundred pages or so before, out of either boredom, ADD, or distraction, I just quit reading and returned it to the library. However, I have been thinking of picking it up again. We shall see.