Veeky Forums has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group, and it starts TODAY! If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!
We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (today) – August 11th with an average pace of 15 pages a day.
Discussions will take place right here on Veeky Forums, hopefully we will keep a thread floating around most of the time, but should activity slow down new threads will be made Friday for discussion to avoid daily spamming of dying threads.
TODAY'S READING is pages 3 - 17, scenes 1- 5. Full schedule to follow this post.
*Infinite Jest is widely available in bookstores and in free ebooks formats online
caught one of these on time, lets see if this meme is alright. first of all of course: >I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. what did he meme by this?
Really put me off instantly - the kind of thing that you'd see undergrad creative writing students come up with. Meant to show he's disconnected from those around him, I suppose, but it's no good, is it? Just comes across as silly.
Jaxon Morris
that seems like a rich analysis yeah its kinda trite but i really like the first chapter, towards the end he really had me wondering what was going on
Zachary Collins
You know what, I'll go against the grain and claim he was trying to explain Hal's consciousness dissociation caused by Pemulis's airborne drug poisoning via the reiteration of Cartesian mind/body dualism.
Easton Morris
ts a pretty peculiar first chapter.
btw does anyone have the reading schedule for the electronic version?
Ryder Carter
how is that going against the grain? That's obviously what DFW was going for.
Jonathan Hall
I was referring to the two posts above mine. Yes, it's obvious - it's also a great feat of POV writing, since Hal himself may not be able to understand humans as whole, unitary beings (which I think it's DFW's emphatically empathetic view) anymore, due to his fractured state.
