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I started reading this immense tome in January and finally finished it! The first third was a slog and all of it was challenging, but now I'm sad it's over. I'll spend the next month reading articles explaining what I just read and I may even do a reread one day. I think I must be a real glutton for punishment! 😂

This was the obvious choice for the “Grimmsnarl: Read the longest book on your TBR“ prompt. #gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper

repost for @RaeLovesToRead

If anyone is interested in a #buddyread of the following over the next few years, I'll be looking for company in my masochism.

Ulysses
Crime & Punishment
Infinite Jest
S. (Ship of Theseus)
Other exhausting book-mountains!!!

Who says reading has to be fun??

Join me! #torturedpoetsbookclub

P.S. I am not reading House of Leaves again.

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I am bailing on this one for now. Perhaps I will come back to it someday, but right now I can‘t get into the book. I feel no connection to the characters and do not have patience for reading 4 page paragraphs in small, tightly spaced font about what seem to be unnecessary details. The couple times I started to get into it a little or started to like a character, the plot jumps around to another character or timeline.

This brick is a gestalt of genuine understanding. Great writing and storytelling that drudged up thoughts of all the ppl I may have thought less of, or spoken down to or harmed. Evoking an overwhelming melancholic realization that my actions may have influenced someone to demap themself. If we were curious and asked them questions, like how are you, and you know, like really listened, could that make a difference?

#InQuotes Day 13: #Truth

Oh man I am trying to get into this but struggling. I‘m on like page 150 of over 1,000. Hard for me to see many connections—more so feel like I‘m always trying to catch up. Thankful to be reading on Kindle so I can be reminded of who some of the characters are and also get definitions for some of the obscure words. I‘ve had this book referenced by others quite often and want to persevere!

New episode just dropped! Judging from the title you'd guess this was an episode looking back on our year in reading and looking ahead. We do discuss those things but we begin with Matt's beautiful mind as he postulates that the term G.O.A.T comes from David Foster Wallace. From there we discuss, Harrison Ford, The Godfather, The Office and LL Cool J. Sound confusing? Enjoy!!!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Z8WM58P6GXTKSHakaRbG6

Just some light reading on a Wednesday 😂 First time I‘ve read Shakespeare‘s tragedies in 25 years, the fear of reading out loud in class gone I can relax and enjoy it. Toynbee‘s study may miss the mark from time to time but the scholarly writing has taken me in. Infinite Jest. Oh Infinite Jest. I‘ve avoided you for years. Yet I am determined to finish and understand you. 39 pages in and haven‘t given up yet!

📖 Infinite Jest
✍️ Junji Ito
📽️ Infernal Affairs trilogy (from Hong Kong)
🎸 Iron Maiden
🎶 Iieee by Tori Amos, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

#ManicMonday #LetterI @CBee

Some days are great. Some days are a struggle. But I‘m halfway done!

DFW predicts streaming! 🤣🤣

Struggling this week, but I enjoyed this passage!

One month and a ton of post it flags in, I‘m enjoying this! Week 3 was rough. I think my head just wasn‘t 💯 there, but it‘s a marathon not a sprint, and Week 4 was a lot better. I feel like I have a handle on most of the subplots even if I don‘t always understand everything he‘s going for. Sometimes when I just continue plugging away, a section from 50 pages ago will make more sense.

My goal was 280 pages, and I read 322 + 40 of footnotes! 🎉🎉

Made it through 82 pages of book and 2 pages of footnotes this week - well past my 70 page goal!

Onward and upward to week 3 early in the morning!

This was a fun section written in a kind of mid-00s T-9 text speak before that was a thing. Yrstruly was the narrator.

Favorite words:
Kwai9 for quinine
Lightpoal for light pole
Elemonaded for eliminated
And…glittershit, which I will definitely use in the future!

I read 87 pages of book and 11 pages of footnotes this week. My goal was 70 pages total, so I feel really good!

I finally decided how I wanted to annotate it, so I spent some time doing that this afternoon. 👍🏻👍🏻

So far, it is dense AF, but I‘m enjoying it. It‘s definitely a bucket list book for me, so I‘m glad I‘ve found time this year.

It all starts here…

Goal: 10 pages a day average. Wish me luck!

#ChunksterChallenge

It‘s here!! #InfiniteJest

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs @TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!

1. Infinite Jest Is haunting me to read.

2. It‘s over 1,000 Pgs so I pass it by all the time!

3. My current read is Sea Glass Cottage by Irene Hannon

Can you play? Anyone reading this is tagged!

Starting my winter reading a little early. A chunkster that has been on my tbr always.

"It's a command-decision, babe. I'm not in command. I know they teach us to teach that this place is about seeing instead of being seen."

Many places (and participants) of improvement in society could benefit from such a concept.

Amazing read 🥸

Another Chunkster Challenge completed!
Way to go, Liz!

@Liz_M
#chunksterchallenge2021

I don‘t have anything new to add to the voluminous writings about this. It is a commitment - the length, the subject matter, the method of storytelling. Despite frustration with some of the esoteric writing experiments and all the disturbing elements, I enjoyed it. I loved the connections between the various characters and plot lines, finding a reference from one milieu in another. I am repressing the urge to read it again in chronological order.

I‘ve seen this around FB for the last week and I had to share.

Although I‘m hard on my books sometimes (shameless spine cracker 😬), this is some next level shit. 😂😂😂

A hard book to read, sometimes due to subject matter, but mostly due to large book versus pushy lap cat. 📖😻 Now past page 600!

#Bert #ChunksterChallenge2021, @Amiable

This is the time I get through it....he tells himself

For some inexplicable reason, I almost feel compelled to enjoy an adult beverage while reading this book. Don't know why.

#chunksterchallenge2021 @Amiable

A little behind in my #chunksterchallenge2021 (finally made it to the 300s!). It's hard to read a 1079-page book with multiple bookmarks when #catsoflitsy is demanding the lap every time I sit down to read. @Amiable

"'That's the way she wants doing, Jim,' my father said, clapping me on the back and exactly the ebullient way that had prompted me to have my mother by an elastic athletic cranial strap for my glasses." - Pg. 497

The way he describes without making the sentence by itself only descriptive of the thing. ??

It‘s been a while since I‘ve read a book of this nature and it‘s very difficult to get through with all the distractions of a busy house and 3 kids, especially considering this book seems to demand 45 minutes to an hour of undivided attention.

Past the 200 page mark and still getting a kick out of the necessary multiple bookmarks: cat playing with mice. #chunksterchallenge2021, @Amiable

W/r/t the pain of sobriety and the feeling your feelings from it.

"'Getting In Touch With Your Feelings is another quilted-sampler-type cliché that ends up masking something ghastly deep and real, it turns out. (178)

178. A more abstract but truer epigram that White Flaggers with a lot of sober times sometimes change this to goes something like: "Don't worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they'll get in touch with you."

Beginning the journey...

I'm at page 105 of the giant Jest. There are so many characters and threads to keep track of! And some difficult, odd passages to get through. I think I will like it though. DFW can be brilliant. #ChunksterChallenge2021 @Amiable

This little joke made me LOL 😅

I'm starting this tonight. I hope I enjoy the ride.

This could also be in a category of three very long, purposefully difficult books. But that wasn‘t an option. All three of these books have multiple intentionally unpleasant scenes written with exquisite attention to detail that made me uncomfortable. 🤢

#3books

If not now, when? You know?

Do I dare?

1. Buy a paper copy and keep a pen handy.
2. Two bookmarks (maybe three, after about 250 pages) are helpful.
3. Just read it like any other book. There are dense parts. You'll get through them. Don't force it.
4. The endnotes are important.
5. Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

Two-for-one since I missed yesterday. 😬

DAY 11 #BeautifulStranger | Joelle Van Dyne aka P.G.O.A.T.

DAY 12 #Future | Maybe one day I‘ll read more DFW. I‘m still hungover from this nearly 3 years later. 🤯

#MOvember
@Cinfhen

https://nothingintherulebook.com/2019/09/02/28-essays-articles-and-short-stories...

I feel ya, kid.

We meet again old friend....this time is the time

FYI and new podcast to be kind of a read along partner with the Everest of books

#Infinite #LiteraryLuck @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88