How long did it take you to finish this bad boy?

[Anonymous No.17156390]

I did it in about 3&1/2 months, which probably makes me a brainlet. If you did it in less than a month you're lying

[Anonymous No.17156531]

>this bad boy

[Anonymous No.17156552]

>>17156390
It's a very bad book

[Anonymous No.17156771]

>>17156390
I tried to finish it in a month and ended up having a mental breakdown, AMA.

[Anonymous No.17156791]

>>17156531
Take your meds

[Anonymous No.17156804]

>>17156531
I meant that unironically, too

[Anonymous No.17156828]

I have never read Infinite Jest and I never will.

[Anonymous No.17156915]

I know nothing about this book other than it is controversial, anyone care to explain the drama?

[Anonymous No.17156925]

>>17156771
So sorry you had to deal with this, have things gotten any better?
PM me if you ever need someone to talk to :)

[Anonymous No.17157039]

75h

[Anonymous No.17157270]

Did it over the summer last year

[Anonymous No.17157371]

>>17156390
On month 3 rn thinking of finishing it next month

[Anonymous No.17157378]

infinite

[Anonymous No.17157479]

>>17156771
what's the hype about?

[Anonymous No.17157506]

>>17156925
Yes, things have gotten better. I took some shrooms and my social anxiety is gone. I feel more confident and my self-esteem has improved.

>>17157479
I don't know.

[Anonymous No.17157966]

>>17156925
lmao

[Anonymous No.17158489]

>>17156390
Just finished last night, took 5 months. It was just so boring I had to go read other shit for weeks at a time

[Anonymous No.17158821]

whats the realistically quickest one could finish it in you reckon?
i've started it twice, got further the second time (pg. 673)

do you reckon its worth restarting again or just continuing?

[Shame filled octo No.17158837]

If you want a shorter interdiction to his writing I would read the planet trillaphon also the pale king is really good I would suggest that for 4chan fags

[Shame filled octo No.17158845]

>>17158837
the planet trillaphon Is only like a hour to read it’s really short

[Anonymous No.17158852]

Which edition of Infinite Jest should I get? The classic sky backdrop with the giant yellow letters or the 20th anniversary edition?

[Anonymous No.17158870]

I don’t think finishing it is as important as reading it.

[Anonymous No.17158916]

>>17158852
I like the sky backdrop cover. It's a classic.

[Anonymous No.17159196]

I read over half and gave up

[Anonymous No.17159564]

>>17158821
It took me like 3 weeks and I was stoned the whole time and even of I was not there are long passages that do take tine to process for scene building (the game of Eschaton for example) and other things.
If you were speedreading you could probably finish in a few days but you would miss a lot of what the book is offering I feel.

[Anonymous No.17159614]

>>17156390
Around 2 weeks I think. I really got into it and spent a good period this summer reading in the sun next to my window.

[Anonymous No.17159668]

>>17158852
sky drop. i had a white one, (not the 20th ann. ur talking about) and the dimensions and print were meh. whereas the sky drop is kino and comfy in all aspects imo

[Anonymous No.17159847]

>>17156828
infinite based

[Anonymous No.17159934]

>>17156390
13 days averaging 75.46 pages per day

[Anonymous No.17160081]

>>17159564
>>17159614
>>17159934
The question asked how long it took you to finish, not read the cliff notes and skim through some key passages

[Anonymous No.17160098]

>>17158821
My second read took about a week, I started it in the middle of the week and finished it the following Tuesday, I called in sick for work on Monday/Tuesday so i could finish it.

[Anonymous No.17160133]

>>17160081
Not sure how it took you 3 months desu

[Anonymous No.17160224]

>>17160081
i wasn't lying, it's not that long. can you read?

[Anonymous No.17160293]

>>17156390
Did it in about the same amount of time. May or may not have also been reading other stuff, can't remember cause it's been a while now.

[Anonymous No.17160305]

>>17160133
Maybe he read all the footnotes.

[Anonymous No.17160531]

I read it last november, took me a month.

[Anonymous No.17160730]

congratulations on finishing the book
so did you enjoy it? did you think it had literary merit? do you feel guilty enough about wasting your time to lie about it on the internet even anonymously?

[Anonymous No.17160757]

>>17156390
I've never seen anybody praise it for its writing, only its ideas or whatever. So I dont plan to read it for now. I like stuff like Moby-Dick and Blood Meridian. I guess I'm not very interested in tennis and footnotes or whatever. Maybe some day I'll read the first page and see if the writing is good.

[Anonymous No.17160778]

>>17160133
I read it in two, and that was spending about 2-3 hours a day, more on weekends. Unless you are hopelessly unemployed there is no way you could do this in a month.

[Anonymous No.17160805]

>>17156390
Is it unreadable in ebook form?

[Anonymous No.17160812]

>>17160224
>”read”
>didnt take time to research the presented theories or form an annotated glossary of Wallacian words
Yeah, you sure ‘read’ it in a few weeks cunt

[æ ᕕ༼ ل͜༽ᕗ æ !!dPHy9FZh6ug No.17160843]

>>17160805
Yes.

[Anonymous No.17160849]

>>17160730
Thanks anon. I liked it, especially DFW musings on addiction and depression. Gately and Marathe were my favorite characters. Though I enjoyed the challenge I found that the esoteric vocabulary and complexity didnt really add anything to the story other than being difficult for its own sake. Still though lots of great passages in the book, definitely the most interesting of the 90s.

[Anonymous No.17160930]

>>17160305
The footnotes only add like 100 pages

[Anonymous No.17161209]

>>17160757
Plenty of praise for its writing, he is amazing with dialog, the bits on depression are some of the best on the topic ever. The inner monologues which comprise a good portion of the end are like a fever dream.

[Anonymous No.17161234]

>>17160930
More like 200 and they are in a smaller font so each page is closer to a page and a half by word count. Apparently he slimmed down the foot notes considerably in the final version.

[Anonymous No.17161667]

>>17161234
More like exactly 96 in the Back Bay paperback you fucking NIGGER.

[Anonymous No.17161701]

I'd read about 20-30 pages an hour, so ~40 hours. Add in another 10 hours of crying, and 100 or so of dead-eyed processing, plus the mandatory second read... it took a while.

[Anonymous No.17161768]

>>17157506
Bruh you literally went insane from reading Infinite Jest and needed shrooms to become sane again

[Anonymous No.17162594]

>>17156390
2 months first 150 pages
Did the rest in 2 weeks

[Anonymous No.17162691]

>>17156390
>If you did it in less than a month you're lying
that's only about 30 pages a day isn't it? i don't read that often, but when i do 30 pages in one sitting isn't that unreasonable, so i assume if you're actually dedicated to putting like ~90 minutes a day into the book, then finishing it in a month isn't that crazy

[Anonymous No.17162717]

>>17160757
>I guess I'm not very interested in tennis and footnotes or whatever.
i found the tennis school shit surprisingly comfy as someone who has never been athletic. the footnotes shit was a little taxing for me. sometimes a footnote would be like a five page long side story critical to the plot. othertimes it would just be a synonym of the marked word. i'd prefer if they just put that shit at the bottom of the page with the long ones taking up multiple pages, didn't like flipping back and forth to the back so much

[Anonymous No.17162732]

>>17156390
Awful cover. I think the clouds and blue sky one is best tbqh. I read about 400 pages around August, stopped, and picked it back up the second week of November and finished it on Dec. 15th ( or the seventh, can't remember).

[Anonymous No.17162753]

>>17160757
the tennis is the best part. it's not about tennis itself. it's about how you can have your entire life revolve around something, but then you don't make it, like pemulius, or 99% of the people there, but then you have to spend the rest of your life touring european circuits, with shitty joints, or transition into something else, or EVEN WORSE you do make it, and then what? what then? now you're sponsored. you've completely gimped every aspect of your life for this thing, and now you got what you set out to achieve. even if you have no hobby to relate that to, tennis is still used as an obvious metaphor for life at many points. there's great passages about trying to avoid killing yourself once you get what you've achieved, which is possibly very ironic considering dfw's life

[Anonymous No.17162760]

>>17156390
>If you did it in less than a month you're lying
i think i did it in about 2 weeks. I was unemployed

[Anonymous No.17162781]

>>17156390
>fiction
Tf am I supposed to learn from this?

[Anonymous No.17162787]

>>17160805
It's working for me on my kobo [1]. The footnote numbers are clickable so they link you to the notes at the end and back. I'm about halfway through and the only issues so far are small scanning errors [2] and a couple links not being formatted right. These are only minor though [3].

[1] with Koreader installed, not sure if that changes anything
[2] e.g. «"I'll ... » appearing as «Tll»
[3] EXCERPT FROM THE DIARY OF ANON DATED 28TH DECEMBER YEAR OF THE 4CHAN GOLD PASS
It comes in waves. I have lost all motivation. I am a skeleton. I layed on the ground for an hour unable to get up, groaning once in a while and twitching. I feel so alone again. I get the urge to hurt myself. scratching with nails will tear the skin. I guess this is self harm. Sulking won't help me. Solve the problem. It's just anxiety for the sake of anxiety

[Anonymous No.17162802]

>>17161667
Keyed

[Anonymous No.17162961]

>>17156390
3 hours and 50 minutes

[Anonymous No.17163082]

>>17160757
This post hurt me physically. Please lurk before you start posting here.

[Anonymous No.17163090]

>>17160849
Lost scrapbook is better.

[Anonymous No.17164229]

>>17156390
I read a wee bit every night before bed over six months or so. Best and only way to make way through the book IMO.

[Anonymous No.17164251]

I read it over abt 5 weeks. IJ isn't difficult at all, it's just really long. so that helps. shouldnt be compared to GR.

[Anonymous No.17164253]

A little shorter than 4 weeks

[Anonymous No.17164480]

>>17158852
I don't pretend to know who's making money off which edition but it's worth noting that the edition in the OP is the only one without a foreword by Dave Eggers that turncoat fuck as far as I know.
Personally I made the mistake of getting the el cheapo paperbacks, I'm not even that much of an ape handling my books but you definitely want a slightly sturdier hardback. Probably getting the anniversary edition next time around because Dave Eggers is a disgusting parasite.

[Anonymous No.17164489]

>>17164480
paperback, singular* but you get the point

[Anonymous No.17165735]

>>17162760
Unemployment is the only exception, if you read it like its a full time job you could do it in under a month