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No frills media watch sort of entry.
I am currently reading Infinite Jest. Very, very slowly, seeing as it's 1000+ pages of densely packed unflinchingly polysyllabic small fonted, endnoted text that I seem incapable of skimming. It is almost offensively well written, though not always on subject matter I feel I should be at all interested in, so ( Read more... )
I am currently reading Infinite Jest. Very, very slowly, seeing as it's 1000+ pages of densely packed unflinchingly polysyllabic small fonted, endnoted text that I seem incapable of skimming. It is almost offensively well written, though not always on subject matter I feel I should be at all interested in, so ( Read more... )
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I had this same problem when I recently read his short story "Good Old Neon". He keeps talking about what a fraud he is and how he is smarter than his analyst, I noted to myself, why am I still reading this? It probably wasn't helped (or was helped, depending on how you're looking at it) by the fact that, as I had suspected beforehand, he and I were on the same wavelength on matters of depression, suicide and world view.
I'd like to read more of his non-fiction work. I read his piece in the Ira Glass-edited The New Kings of Non-Fiction, and it is one of my favorite pieces in the book. He packed so much information into one article while still managing to make it fascinating and entertaining (he had a great sense of humor).
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His nonfiction is good though? I've never really been much of a nonfiction fan, but he just doesn't have all that much fiction to read if I decide I really need me some more Wallace.
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