Dealing with money gives me the howling fantods.

[grammargirl]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the novel that would not die is officially DEAD.

It took considerably more than a month, but the monstrosity that is Infinite Jest is now my bitch.

PH34R ME!

In other news: financial things make me want to cry.

Also: today I got to consume delicious cider and donuts at the cider mill that my mom has visited annually since she was about 5 years old.

My brain hurts. I want to snuggle with my nerd.

Bleh.

Comments

[feckalyn.livejournal.com]

Footnotes and all?? :)

Did you read the footnotes as you read?

That was a major part of what made the book challenging to me (and no, I have not made it my bitch as you have), I was so obsessed with reading each footnote I'd get lost on what was actually going on in the chapters.

[grammargirl.livejournal.com]

Yep, believe it or not, I read every single footnote. I actually ended up using 2 bookmarks: one for my place in the text, and one for my place in the footnotes.

If it makes you feel any better, the first time I tried to read that book I threw up my arms in defeat after the 10+ page footnote-filmography. This time I had a much better incentive to finish, though. ;)

[feckalyn.livejournal.com]

I think that's about where I quit as well actually.

I've got this weird issue with feeling it's absolutely inappropriate to skip around in books, so I had to just stop reading. Twisted, eh?

Congrats on good reasons to finish it! ;)