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Hi Alicia, thank you very much for the mention. What's this book club? I'm really pleased you gave up on Infinite Jest: I've started and stopped several times, and knowing I'm not alone in that is a great source of comfort, given that everyone says what a fantastic piece of work it is. I have to say, I have absolutely loved what I've read - I'm a huge fan of Foster Wallace -- but I've never got enough time to continue reading it before I forget what I've read, if you see what I mean. So my experience of Infinite Jest is a sort of literary Groundhog Day.

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Lol "literary Groundhog Day" is such an apt metaphor! That's my experience of it, too. I do love his sentences and his inventiveness with words. There are passages that make me laugh out loud. But also some of the themes do feel repetitive. I would have loved to read Infinite Jest as a short story.

The whole theme of this book club is "books we want to say we have read but won't actually read unless anyone forces us to." Which made IJ the perfect candidate.

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Indeed. I wonder if the world is filled with members of this book club. Whenever I'm in a literary group someone mentions Infinite Jest and everyone else nods sagely. I wonder how many have read it.

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Ditto. A few hundred pages. Tough read.

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