Infinite Jest vs Don Quixote

Taking a short holiday, what should I read whilst baking in the sun; Infinite Jest (from page 97 (midway through a lengthy footnote)) or Book 2 of Don Quixote?

how about you pick up the one you were enjoying more beforehand and stop caring about which will give you more credit on a board full of fat neckbearded philosophes, you fucking idiot

I was enjoying DQ more but I don't think IJ is something which grabs you right away. Besides I'll have the benefit of having literally nothing else to do to help me focus, whereas I can actually read DQ casually and enjoy it.

not op
Should I read Infinite Jest in English?
I am not a native English speaker.
Generally buy translations, except for Poetry.

What's your fucking problem? You can read English poetry but read translation for prose? Please tell me you're baiting. No way you can be that stupid.

>should i read some meme by a talentless hack or the best book ever
thats a thoug one, op

I am not baiting.
I find poetry to be untranslatable, so I always read poetry in the original language if possible.

For prose, I am satisfied with good translations.
Mainly because I dont want to bother myself with imports.
Almost all the westerners who consider Dostoievsky and Tolstoi to be geniuses did not actually read them in Russian.
Translation can be even better than the original.

Donny Q is a more worthwhile read.

Worked out earlier that every 1% of progress for Infinite Jest on my Kindle is 31 pages - so more than 3000 pages for the whole text. I've been reading it for weeks on end and I'm still only 37% through. I'm hoping that at 50% the actual book will end and the footnotes will start so that I can stop reading but honestly say I've read the book desu, but I'm too scared to go forward to check.

at about 47% completion you realize it's a giant haphazard compendium of every stray short story and notebook page and index card a desperate alcoholic and weed addict could scrounge together in order to publish a magnum opus before he was 35 to impress a hot poetess he was obsessed with