Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?message-squaremessage-square284fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down110
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square284fedilink
minus-squareHackerman_uwu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoFuck me it is dense. I’m an avid reader and I find I have to take breaks every 20-30min with IJ and just let stuff settle. Otherwise I find myself reading the same passage several times while my mind wanders.
minus-squareComradeR@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoMy mom is reading it! She said that it is confusing and messy, but wants to finish it anyway.
minus-squaredarth_helmet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoIt honestly feels like something he wrote as a joke
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoAnd at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite
minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoRead it twice, absolutely love that book.
Infinite Jest
Fuck me it is dense.
I’m an avid reader and I find I have to take breaks every 20-30min with IJ and just let stuff settle. Otherwise I find myself reading the same passage several times while my mind wanders.
My mom is reading it! She said that it is confusing and messy, but wants to finish it anyway.
It honestly feels like something he wrote as a joke
As a jest, perhaps?
And at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite
Read it twice, absolutely love that book.