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The Pale Spring
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Apr 09, 2011 05:41PM
We're reading it here http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/4...
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Nevermind. For some reason the link in my app took me to a different group than The Pale King group. Weird.
Nice! I just bought this book. Even though I have yet to read Infinite Jest I just couldn't help myself. I think this book might be easier to tackle. We'll see.-Victoria
Victoria,Have you read any of his nonfiction? I found it to be an easy way to familiarize myself with DFW.
Jealous that you're going to experience the book for your first time. Can only do that once!Highly recommend reading this quick "how to" -- the end notes are brilliant and hilarious, and Kottke's tips will help keep everything straight: http://kottke.org/09/07/how-to-read-i...
If you're reading a paper book, use two bookmarks. One for the story and one at the endnotes. Enjoy. Work hard.
Victoria wrote: "Nice! I just bought this book. Even though I have yet to read Infinite Jest I just couldn't help myself. I think this book might be easier to tackle. We'll see.-Victoria"
I read the Pale king as my intro to DFW, and then a bunch of short stories before IJ, and glad I did, but it only made me want to know how TPK would have been if finished... IJ is my all time favorite book!
Yim Sui Fung wrote: "any one doing an infinite spring? i'm starting IJ now and would love as much (virtual) company as i can get! thanks for any leads or directions toward other IJ attempters whose summers are already ..."I would be glad to Join in a spring reading. My favorite all time book... I could read it over and over...lol... I think that is DFWs jest!
Just finished Infinite Jest. I feel quietly euphoric.
Peter wrote: "Just finished Infinite Jest. I feel quietly euphoric."Nice! My copy is collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. Think I'll have it again this month. :)
A blog somewhere suggested reading it with a dictionary. If you want to go down that road, I would suggest an iBook if possible, because you can look up words and skip back and forth between footnotes very easily, particularly important with infinite jest. In the evening I tended to read my paper copy.
