Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?message-squaremessage-square312fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down110
arrow-up1183arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square312fedilink
minus-squareComradeR@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoMy mom is reading it! She said that it is confusing and messy, but wants to finish it anyway.
minus-squaredarth_helmet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoIt honestly feels like something he wrote as a joke
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoAnd at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite
minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoRead it twice, absolutely love that book.
minus-squareHackerman_uwu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoFuck me it is dense. I’m an avid reader and I find I have to take breaks every 20-30min with IJ and just let stuff settle. Otherwise I find myself reading the same passage several times while my mind wanders.
Infinite Jest
My mom is reading it! She said that it is confusing and messy, but wants to finish it anyway.
It honestly feels like something he wrote as a joke
As a jest, perhaps?
And at over one thousand pages long, one can also say it’s infinite
Read it twice, absolutely love that book.
Fuck me it is dense.
I’m an avid reader and I find I have to take breaks every 20-30min with IJ and just let stuff settle. Otherwise I find myself reading the same passage several times while my mind wanders.