« Colin Meloy: Why I am Reading Infinite Jest
» Jason Kottke: Forward

Preparation

Battening Down the Hatches

13 Comments

• JMLA says:

  June 20, 2009 at 10:49 am

  Ahhh haha

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• valerie2776 says:

  June 20, 2009 at 11:31 am

  Hahahaha EXCELLENT!

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• Mike says:

  June 20, 2009 at 11:43 am

  Esplain’ to me what this is you windows people are giggling about?

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  • Jeffery Battersby says:

    June 20, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    All play and no read makes Jack a boy behind in his reading.

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  • dws says:

    June 21, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Apparently Peggle is an addictive game which would distract the reader.

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• Jack says:

  June 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm

  I’m all about business (I am, after all, on page 316 right now), but I’ll be damned if I put my Netflix subscription on hold.

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• crowhandler says:

  June 20, 2009 at 3:53 pm

  i am good luck everyone

  rest up! big day tomorrow!

  (i finished early in the spring,
  and am now ready to go again;
  good to have some global support this time.
  i read just the first two words today)

  i read the first two words today.

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• Susan says:

  June 20, 2009 at 7:39 pm

  do you sign up somewhere to do this, or do you just start reading and check in on this site?

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  • Avery says:

    June 20, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    Just read along and check back at the site. There’s a forum if you’d like to discuss the book with others.

    Hope you enjoy it!

    Scratch that — I hope I enjoy it!

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• Gale says:

  June 21, 2009 at 4:56 am

  Reading Infinite Jest won’t seem like such an endless quest in a party larger than Lewis and Clark’s or Admiral Peary’s.

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• carol de Lucia says:

  June 21, 2009 at 12:50 pm

  I’m anxious to do this with Matt since he is quite sane… Matt, George won’ be here will he,
  please god say no…
  visited Marcus in Scotland maybe we can rope him in..

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• Liesel says:

  June 21, 2009 at 5:52 pm

  Aw, poop. Why did we start this on Father’s Day — a day of sleeping in, eating meat, and drinking anything cylindrical? I’ve been on a boat in the Florida sun all day and now the only thing I want to do with my newly-bought I.S. paperback is to… uhhhhhhhhh… Is my name ‘Champ?’

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• Anne says:

  June 24, 2009 at 5:50 am

  Good idea, but you’ll have to pry Peggle from my cold dead virtual fingers.

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« Colin Meloy: Why I am Reading Infinite Jest
» Jason Kottke: Forward

the challenge

Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages¹ ÷ 92 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.

1. Plus endnotes^a.
a. A lot of them.

The Sponsors

The Queue

In October we are reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in October. See the announcement.

In January & February of 2010 we are reading 2666, the paperback of which was just released.

At some point in between we are reading a novel TBD.

The Search

The Last 10 Posts

• Acknowledgements
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I
• The End
• Roundup
• Greg Carlisle: Reading Infinite Jest Changed My Life (and Now It Will Change Yours)
• Mission Improbable
• I Got This Fire In My Heart, Won’t Let Me Sleep, Can’t Concentrate…

The Last 10 Comments

• Peer on Acknowledgements: Thanks for the link. I will check it out. I was just hoping for some announcements here...
• Prolixian on Acknowledgements: Peer – if you are interested in 2666, check out bolanobolano.com. A group read...
• Peer on Acknowledgements: When will we start the new book?
• Todeswalzer on Acknowledgements: RIP Infinite Summer. It was great while it lasted.
• Medusa4303 on Join the Tunnel Club: Thanks. Scott! I have just joined the Bolano group, and I am looking forward to...
• ariel on Join the Tunnel Club: thank you scott!!
• Scott on Join the Tunnel Club: If not here, maybe as a group read on the Bolano Googl Group. See the discussion of...
• ariel on Join the Tunnel Club: hi! can we please revisit this? is there going to be a 2666 club in january?
• sarah klise on Maria Bustillos: The Wonder of Wallace-L: Ken- No immediate plans for repub. We shall see what the...
• redsock on Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II: Re Avril’s sexual affairs mentioned by Daryl: In the...

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