/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19399315]

Have any of you actually read this cover to cover?

If so how long did it take you?

[Anonymous No.19399335]

>>19399315
I'm quite a slow reader so a good couple of months including the end notes. Strange that some people say they've read this and they've skipped the end notes. Although I will admit to having skipped the Eschaton part after trying to get through it multiple times. Almost made be sack the book entirely.

[Anonymous No.19399337]

Read it in the background while I was at uni, usually in breaks and on weekends. Took me about 4-5 months like this I think, was well worth it though.

[Anonymous No.19399361]

>>19399315
a feel days, but I must say that I am extremely intelligent and a fast reader. I can recite to you any quote from the book that is available in goodreads.com/quotes/work/infinite-jest from my mind.

[Anonymous No.19399372]

>>19399361
Excuse sir but you made a typo in your first line.

[Anonymous No.19399392]

cringe book. read the wiki synop if you must and skip

[Anonymous No.19399404]

>>19399315
about a month and a half
don't get that edition if your hands get sweaty

[Anonymous No.19399415]

>>19399315
A couple of weeks. Use two bookmarks

[Anonymous No.19399424]

a few weeks, it was funny enough that I didn't want to put it down.

[Anonymous No.19399439]

>>19399372
have you never had a feel day, anon?

[Anonymous No.19399440]

>>19399315
infinite jest is 1079 pages (according to google). if you read 50 pages a day it will take you 21.58 days to complete. If you read 100 pages a day it will take you 10.79 days to complete. If you read 30 pages a day (most common, I think, especially for something difficult) it will take you 35.97 days to complete.

[Anonymous No.19399446]

>>19399404
care to share your experience sweaty-man?

[Anonymous No.19399498]

>>19399315
It took a month for me

[Anonymous No.19399655]

>>19399446
i don't even know how to explain it

[Anonymous No.19399706]

>>19399655
Hahahaha

[Anonymous No.19399731]

>>19399655
fucking hell, how can your hands get so sweaty just from reading?

[Anonymous No.19399732]

>>19399655
holy moly
thank you for that laugh anon, you made my day

[Anonymous No.19399746]

>>19399731
>the book is just THAT good

[Anonymous No.19399749]

>>19399655
David Wallace would be proud of this level of perspiration.
Pure palm piss.

[Anonymous No.19399750]

>>19399655
This happened to me when reading Don Quixote Walter Starkie edition2 weeks ago, the pages were printed with shit ink that kept rubbing onto my hands. Not as bad as your experience though.

[Anonymous No.19399800]

>>19399655
read in gloves bruh

[Anonymous No.19399802]

>>19399655
incredibly based

[Anonymous No.19399820]

>>19399655
Sweaty hands fascinate me, I've never had sweaty hands in my life.

[Anonymous No.19399829]

Never read this, wjy is it associated with untermensch chud incels?

[Anonymous No.19399840]

>>19399315
read it in about 6 weeks for class, range of 20-30 pages a night
there’re some dense-ass sections with all the technical jargon and such, plus some of the bizarre stream-of-consciousness sections, but they’re mostly in the first third of the book. if you can power through the first 300 pages and all the agonizing stuff there (so yeah, basically a long-ish novel), it’s pretty smooth sailing.

[Anonymous No.19399843]

>>19399655

[Anonymous No.19399847]

>>19399655
this just shows that your brain was operating at a high level

[Anonymous No.19399866]

>>19399829
its just cope from people who couldnt get passed the first 100 pages.
t. finished it

[Anonymous No.19399868]

>>19399315
Month or 3 but I always read multiple books at the same time.

[Anonymous No.19399887]

>>19399749
it does sound like something that would come up in one of his novels.

[Anonymous No.19399917]

for your convenience

[Anonymous No.19399999]

>>19399335
The Eschaton chapter was the funniest part of the book

[Anonymous No.19400016]

>>19399999
Quints confirms Eschaton part is GOOD

[Anonymous No.19400034]

i read it in maybe 2-3 months. i powered through the last 100 pages or so in one sitting. it gets very engrossing the more you read it in my opinion. once you get through the first 300 it is more or less smooth sailing.

[Anonymous No.19400042]

>>19399917
how do u stop your hands form sweating

[Anonymous No.19400158]

>>19400042
>how do u stop your hands form sweating
there's surgeries I hear

[Anonymous No.19400162]

>>19400158
lol what

[Anonymous No.19400167]

>>19400162
https://hyperhidrosisnetwork.com/hyperhidrosis-surgery/

[Anonymous No.19400175]

>>19399315
I don't want to read it now that I know the author had lots of sex. I'm an incel btw.

[Anonymous No.19400184]

>>19400167
p gross

[Anonymous No.19400700]

>>19399655
fascinating. i work in a library and only see this type of fading when we wipe certain old books down with alcohol.

[Anonymous No.19400711]

>>19399655
this shit is fucking hilarious. I was in a zoom meeting and could barely contain my laughter.

[Anonymous No.19400757]

>>19399749
>Pure palm piss
my sides

[Anonymous No.19400763]

>>19399315
As long as it takes me to read 3 books. Read it over a month.

[Anonymous No.19400770]

>>19399315
It probably took me about 3 and a half months to finish it. Though i didn’t read it all at once. Condensed time probably 4-5 weeks. Don’t listen to brainless who lie and say they did it in a week

[Anonymous No.19400773]

>>19399999
Yeah it was

[Anonymous No.19400847]

>>19399315
A few months but it was also my freshman year of college so kind of "in the background". A great time in my life to read it.
>>19399655
coolio

[Anonymous No.19400900]

>>19399315
It'll take a month but it's worth it
Here's a pro tip, use 2 bookmarks. 1 for the endnotes and 1 for the text

[Anonymous No.19400904]

>>19399999
Checked and objectively wrong-pilled

[Anonymous No.19400907]

>>19399655
As a guy that has made many sweaty-fingertip indents on his hardcover books I understand entirely.

[Anonymous No.19400928]

>>19399655
Could you show us more of your victims?

[Anonymous No.19400965]

Is infinite Jest hard to follow? I'm a brainlet

[Anonymous No.19401220]

>>19400965
no

[Anonymous No.19401251]

>>19399361
Have you ever told a driver, "The library, and step on it!"?

[Anonymous No.19401262]

>>19399655
t. Marlon Bain

[Anonymous No.19401275]

>>19399315
>Have any of you
Stop pretending this book is hard to read. Stop it. Stop pretending that only a select few have ever trudged to the end of a fairly easy read. PLEASE stop. Please stop pretending that this is a difficult book in any way, shape, or form. I am BEGGING you. Yes, I’ve read this stupid book cover to cover. No, it’s not hard to do. Stop pretending it’s hard to do. Please.

[Anonymous No.19401280]

>>19399829
>>19399866
Also feminists hate DFW because he was an absolute chad

[Anonymous No.19401295]

>>19399999
>mfw Utter Global Crisis

[Anonymous No.19401311]

>>19399999
SACPOP and Hal tripping over eschaton and it's parallels make it one of the best parts of the book. God and Pemulis and his passion for the game...

[Anonymous No.19401398]

>>19399655
KEK
God bless u for this post

[Anonymous No.19401483]

3 weeks, 50 pages a day+whatever amount of requisite pages for the footnotes

[Anonymous No.19401510]

>>19399315
4 months no cap

[Anonymous No.19401663]

Started today, read 90 pages. Kinda annoying how disconnected it is, but connections are being made. I am keeping up with the footnotes, the entire filmography list was the first lmao moment. DFW is a top tier autist, kinda cool to read this and contrast the character monologues with his aww shucks interview persona.

[Anonymous No.19401672]

>>19399315
It took me from the beginning of summer to the beginning of spring the next year to finish it. My excuse though is that I went many months without reading it at all and was busy with uni.

[Anonymous No.19401776]

>>19399999
holy quints

[Anonymous No.19402074]

>>19399439
> mfw never read anything in a feel day

[Anonymous No.19402675]

>>19399315
I listened to the audiobook that did not include foot notes

[Anonymous No.19403160]

>>19400965
Takes a bit to keep track of all the characters and jumping back and forth between the text and the notes can be annoying, but the message (part of it at least) is very straight forward

[Anonymous No.19403192]

>>19402675
you missed out. some of the notes were very funny. audio books are for illiterates, learn to read.

[Anonymous No.19403903]

>>19399655
holy fuck man get yourself some gloves

[Anonymous No.19404131]

>>19399887
If I recall correctly, there's a passage spent on sweat anxiety in The Pale King.

[Anonymous No.19404289]

>>19403192
I just saw people recommending the book here and didn’t really know what I was getting in to. Had I known I would have read it.

[Anonymous No.19404307]

>>19404131
You either did not read it or have a shit memory, there is a fair amount of it in The Pale King.

[Anonymous No.19404323]

>>19404307
so he's right?

[Sneed !jjVySneed6 No.19404324]

>>19399315
Read the first 20 pages, very boring so I stopped reading.

[Anonymous No.19404338]

>group of French Canadian wheelchair assassins

I read hundreds of pages and years later this is the only part I retained.

[Anonymous No.19404350]

Between a month and a half reading every day (lots of the time for hours cause I'm a NEET). I'm a slow reader but still tend towards long novels, and this one was definitely worth the effort.

[Anonymous No.19404358]

>>19404323
>there is a fair amount of it
What is so difficult about that for you to understand? There is also a fair amount of sweat in IJ, one character lives on a diet of other peoples sweat and a minor character has excessive sweating issues but he only is mentioned two or three times.
>he wrote accomplished verse about the dry clean boy inside

[Anonymous No.19404362]

>>19404324
You were always dumb

[Anonymous No.19404365]

>>19402675
Re-read it. The foot notes aren't just fun to read, but they are crucial for a proper understanding of the novel.

[Anonymous No.19404375]

>>19404365
No they are not. You can not fully appreciate it's complexity and structure without the footnotes but everything you need is in the main text. They left the footnotes out of the audio book for good reason, they would have been too disruptive in that format.

[Anonymous No.19404382]

Honestly it took me almost a year to complete it, although there was a 3-4 month period of not reading it at all. After I started reading again it got really addictive though.

[Anonymous No.19404392]

Honestly it took me like a year to finish the book, although there was a 3-4 month period of not reading at all. After I started reading again it got really addictive though

[Anonymous No.19404395]

>>19404375
That's more along the lines of what I meant, and it makes sense that they would leave footnotes out of the audiobook, but it's a book that should be read and not listened to in audiobook format. You do need to read the footnotes if you want to learn Pemulis's full story though.

[Anonymous No.19404458]

>>19404358
you haven't disproved the original post anon. you've just confirmed it, why are you seething?

[Anonymous No.19404465]

>>19404375
proof that audiobooks are for brainlets.

[Anonymous No.19404474]

>>19399315
I read fifty pages a day, with some breaks or days that I didn't read as many, took me about a month but I could have done it a little quicker. If you're gonna read it, have two bookmarks (one for main text other for endnotes), makes it much easier to navigate. Also skip wardine be cry

[Anonymous No.19404481]

>>19404395
I really enjoy the audiobook and I find the last third were it switches between Gately in the hospital and Hal isolating is far better to listen to than to read. Overall I am agnostic on the whole audiobook/book thing, sometimes after reading a book I want to hear it and on rare occasions the desire to hear a book has won out before I even finished it. Listening to audio books in the background while you do other things is not the same as reading, but that line gets quite blurry when you intently listen and focus.

>>19404458
That is because I never tried to disprove, I corrected and commented.

>>19404465
And yet that anon agreed with me.

[Anonymous No.19404665]

>>19399655
gross

[Anonymous No.19405685]

>>19399655
post of the year

[Anonymous No.19405936]

>>19399655
For the /lit/ humor threads.
>>19399917
Try harder.

[Anonymous No.19406053]

>>19399315
Though the book is super fucking long, it is still very well written, and the very segmented aspect of the book allows you to pick it up and read a chapter quite easily. Or at least that's what I tell myself as I got 150 pages in and haven't touched it for 6 months

[Anonymous No.19406067]

>>19399315
no anon I did not read the annotations page by page

[Anonymous No.19406134]

>>19399315
I'm at the Eschaton chapter right now. Loving the book, but I can't pretend this part isn't challenging for me.
>>19404392
Funny that you post Dano, that was my same experience with War & Peace.

[Anonymous No.19407165]

>>19401251
FUCKING KEK

[Anonymous No.19407233]

>>19399315
read it in about 2 months while in college. I read gravity's rainbow over the summer, which was much harder to get through.

[Anonymous No.19407250]

>>19399315
why does the CIA love this book lol

[Anonymous No.19407981]

>>19401251
funny fella

[Anonymous No.19407987]

>>19399315
I read the whole thing on my phone in just under a month. I must have been averaging 4 hours a day near the end.

[Anonymous No.19408238]

>>19405936
Good job