/lit/ - Literature

I'll be done with infinite jest in 50 pages and I really, really really don't want it to end. I started reading it something like a year ago. Not long into the book I knew I liked, it, him, and I started listening to his interviews all while feeling very ambivalent about feeling inspired by a guy who eliminated his own map. One reason I've been slow to pick up the book is that it makes me very sad to think of him. A week ago I listened to an interview his sister did about what he was like, and it made me feel somewhat at ease, so I went and swallowed 300 pages and now I'm hugging the thinning pages with dread. A good book is like getting a friend. So it's nicer when the author isnt dead, let alone dead by suicide