Somehow I managed to read 200 pages of Infinite Jest in the past week. And, I might add, that's with one eye people. I only had one eye. The other was swollen shut. Anyway, this puts me around page 620 now. And people are still telling me I won't finish it. WTF?
Honestly, I read the first paragraph of this book and knew, all things being equal, I would not put this mother down unless absolutely necessary. Like feeding the kids and changing diapers and basic life maintenance stuff. If I lived alone? I would have kept reading until I starved to death or passed out from lack of hydration or my brain exploded from that ruptured cyst (the reason for the eye swelling).
I guess I could understand stopping at page 20 or maybe 100 - maybe. But seriously, I'm on page 620. Why would I stop now? Why? It's not like I'm running 100 miles or biking across the country in a week or climbing Mt. Everest. I'm reading a big book is all. So people. Friends. Acquaintances. Anti-Jesters all. Leave off, k? I'm finishing this book. And I'm going to be reading this one along with it now 'cuz I need to have read it by March 29. Neener. Neener.
3 comments:
I felt the same reading Gravity's Rainbow, and wish I preserved with Finnegans Wake (These days, I pick a page at random when I feel like it).
YES! Keep reading! Naysayers be damned!
It is my favorite book and I am reading it for the fourth time right now.
It makes me so happy and sad at the same time.
Good luck.
you go girl. my own literary white whale at the moment is don delillo's "underground." a great book, a virtuoso performance, but jeez i'm going on 3 months now and i'm only about 60% done.
last year i read both "sometimes a great notion" and "anna karenina," 2 gargantuan works. w/ a kid,though, finding the time is so hard ...
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