Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
I'm about 1200 pages into my ebook edition so far, roughly 50%. A massive tome- I've been at it a little over a month, reading relatively slowly during lunch breaks and boring evenings.
The book jumps around quite a bit, different strands of linearity with several central characters. So far, one of the finest pieces of modern lit I've read... Funny, profound, insightful, sad, even occasionally dull and frustrating. It's the moments, the gems of insightful thought and extraordinarily good writing that keeps me with it.
A book unlike any other- often it's like zooming in on life with a microscope and describing all the glorious details. The beauty of the mundane captured.
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