Infinite Jest

About a week ago I must have hit my head on something very hard because after reading this post by Jason Kottke I decided that I was going to read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I am a very slow reader taking on a 1,000+ page book with over 100 pages of footnotes is a pretty big undertaking, but I am going to make an effort. There is a group that already started and are blogging their summer of reading Infinite Jest. They can be found here at Infinite Summer. I am going to try and follow their blog posts as I hit their milestones.

Here is DFW doing a reading of one of his essays to give you a good idea of his style: