CBA713 wrote: If you've never read any David Foster Wallace, I recommend him above just about anyone else right now. "Infinite Jest" is a MONSTER, but worth all 990,000 8-point-font words.
Yes! I'm reading the Jest now, I'm usually one of those people to read more than one book at once, but now I'm focused on IJ.
DFW is a pleasure to read, he trolls the beginnings of his sentences so hard.
Good for you, Sasha. I must admit that, early on, I "gave up" about 200 pages in when Madame Psychosis is introduced... the engineer at the radio station goes up on the roof and puts up this antenna and the writing is just toooooooo hyperbolic... but then I took a week off or so and came back to it and finished it quite willingly.
Good for you, Sasha. I must admit that, early on, I "gave up" about 200 pages in when Madame Psychosis is introduced... the engineer at the radio station goes up on the roof and puts up this antenna and the writing is just toooooooo hyperbolic... but then I took a week off or so and came back to it and finished it quite willingly.
How far have you gotten?
C
Ha, I know exactly what you mean, reading that part was like not even reading at all. I'm on pg 364.
Gearmond wrote: Gravity's Rainbow
Agreed, if you took GR, took all the war and replaced it with tennis you would have Infinite Jest.
Dark Tower, Pynchon, DFW, Huxley... the past 2 pages are giving me a serious literary boner.
Has anyone seen the movie for Brief Interviews with Hideous Men? I dunno how the heck John Kransinksy turned it into a movie. He's stated numerous times how much he digs DFW (they even named his sometime boss on the office after him), but I'm worried.
Sitting in my netflix list right now but I'm in the middle of S3 of the xfiles
Gearmond wrote: basically. but even still, for some reason I couldn't get into Infinite Jest whereas GR had me sucked in by the first few pages.
I'm still in the process of reading GR, I'm just past the halfway point, but it's gotten really dense for me. I've always felt that IJ never really got heavy enough to make me think twice about grabbing it off the shelf (except the Mme Psychosis part).
The first part is GR is definitely amazing
Have you ever seen the illustrated GR thing that Zak Smith did? Got it for christmas.
Gearmond wrote: basically. but even still, for some reason I couldn't get into Infinite Jest whereas GR had me sucked in by the first few pages.
I'm still in the process of reading GR, I'm just past the halfway point, but it's gotten really dense for me. I've always felt that IJ never really got heavy enough to make me think twice about grabbing it off the shelf (except the Mme Psychosis part).
The first part is GR is definitely amazing
Have you ever seen the illustrated GR thing that Zak Smith did? Got it for christmas.
Oh I've read them already, I just get excited when mentioned
I hadn't been keeping tabs on the movie...hmm Ron Howard, I like some of the stuff he's done but not sure if this one is for him. I'd always hoped someone like Guillermo del Toro would attempt to get it made.
Not really reading anything major right now...finished Alone (the book by Admiral Byrd) a while back, but haven't really found anything new. I see alot of books in this thread being mentioned by multiple people....any I should check out?..
