For some reason, I made a snap decision to purchase David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" on my Kindle tonight. I was going through some posts on Kottke.org and I came across a reminder that an online book club had just begun called
Infinite Summer. Here is the mission statement of the website:
THE CHALLENGE
Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages1 ÷ 92 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.
I'm a notoriously slow reader, but I'm diving in headfirst.
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this sounds like loads of fun. but i'm like you, i just finished a 630 pager after starting it a year ago. but this "infinite jest" has always intrigued me.
hmm, a thousand pages?
I've been thinking about doing this too! We'll see how much gumption I can work up by this weekend.
i'd consider it more strongly if i weren't about to start seminary and have a list the length of my forearm of theological books to start reading so i don't overwhelm myself come september.
oh well... i'll root for you instad :)
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