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I don't want my book challenge to affect the type of books I select (e.g. shying away from long reads) so 40 seems like a decent number. I started Grapes of Wrath this week.
David Foster Wallace was the man. Give "Consider the Lobster" (a collection of his essays) a try. "Infinite Jest" is a bit ambitious but man-o-man is it hilarious (to me at least).
Trying to follow - are you aiming for a re-read of IJ this year or did you write this after having started?
I quit IJ a couple hundred pages in. ... I found it depressing, as well.
the author did decide to eat a bullet - not really an upbeat guy
I quit IJ a couple hundred pages in. It was funny, but long and weird and pretty hard to follow. I found it depressing, as well.
I started reading it a few years ago and quit on around page 400. Consider it's over 1,000 pages long that could qualify as three books. By the way - great avatar, didn't peg you for a fan of the Spitkickers..
You obviously don't know anything about DFW if you that's what you believe.
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He suffered from depression, quit his meds because of side effects and ultimately killed himself- his writing is insightful and funny, but again, not an upbeat guy
Godspeed. If you do 52 books AND Infinite Jest in the same year, then
I am, and I'm a bigger fan of that album specifically.
I'd like to get some quick victories before summertime rolls around.
twilight of the idols by nietzsche, one of his classics and -~80 pages
yeah wow
Wow.
WTF is your problem?
Vonnegut is one of the greatest American authors, and I'd be hard-pressed to name a more important american author that has printed books during my life than him.