Comments on: Roundup

By: Tait McKenzie Johnson

Tait McKenzie Johnson — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:39:36 +0000

Here is a link to my review of Infinite Jest in relation to its length as a tome. Enjoy!

http://absentnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/07/infinite-jest-and-importance-of-tome.html

By: James

James — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:24:09 +0000

I’m with you, Edward – I saw the article in Newsweek, and am sweating it out this weekend trying to catch up. Great stuff.

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:22:44 +0000

You know the guy in college who shows up to class the 3rd or 4th week and asks the Prof if it’s too late to add, and exasperated the Prof says alright. Well that guy is me and I’m just now showing up to infinite summer and I appreciate you telling me that’s alright. I’ve got about 3000 Kindle location units under my belt this morning, so I should be caught up just after the first midterm. Thanks for hosting a terrific site.

By: Paris

Paris — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:35:52 +0000

Thanks for the shout out! I’m still managing two lengthy posts/week, love the traffic you sent over. My recent post is about Substance use, Too Much Fun, and Dis-ease.

http://infinitetasks.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/too-much-fun/

And thanks, too, for the intro to Infinite Detox, http://infinitedetox.wordpress.com/. That site is absolutely terrific.

By: ray gunn

ray gunn — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:31:38 +0000

Still doing my thing over at Love, Your Copyeditor every Wednesday.

Topics so far have included the unusual use of quotation marks, translation gaffes, and putting hyphens in strange places.

Thanks for previous shout-outs. And not to be picky about the pronouns, but I’m a chick.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:46:17 +0000

Still keeping up with my own read-through, now with support from Infinite Summer!, over at my site: http://thatsoundscool.blogspot.com/2009/07/infinite-jestation-blogthrough-pages_15.html

I’m making wild leaps and stretches, and I’m loving the fact that there’s so much meat on the bones of this novel that it’s seemingly inexhaustible–I rarely find myself covering the same ground as other bloggers/readers (though I’ve never really had the problem that leads Struck to need to plagiarize in ft. 304).

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:49:47 +0000

I did an online book club for Infinite Jest last summer which kind of fell apart after September 12. I also posted a new entry to my blog about how much I love the idea of Infinite Summer, and/but don't have the stamina to re-read the book right now.

By: Doubtful Geste

Doubtful Geste — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:21:38 +0000

Enjoyed your tennis post. The Hal as “Prince Hal” connection, is, of course, one of the backbones of the book, but hadn’t re-read Henry V, so didn’t know about the tennis connection there, which seems to work on a couple of levels, including the skirmishes with a francophone enemy…or is it J.O.Incandenza who is the “Hal” figure, since it is he who married the equivalent of the french princess (avril). Damn, does this mean I have to go re-read all three Henry VI plays now?

By: Olja

Olja — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:36:29 +0000

P.S. Sorry, misread, I agree with some of it. Maybe. I need to drink coffee before commenting. Sorry.

I still think the cluster thing though.

LOL:)

By: Olja

Olja — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:34:33 +0000

I disagree with postivelypoisonous.

But am also tired of arguing with you. I see there’s a whole school of thought out there that clusters together thoughts which I personally don’t see as logically connected, and that have been grouped in a neat little package a lot of you appear to be awfully fond of.

Whatever.