Tobias’s Comments (group member since Jan 28, 2016)

Tobias’s comments from the Infinite Winter 2016 group.

Welcome to the week four and five Infinite Jest discussion thread. We invite you to share your questions and reflections on pages 242-390 -- or if you're reading the digital version, up to location 8869 -- below.

How's everyone doing?

Welcome to the week three Infinite Jest discussion thread. We invite you to share your questions and reflections on pages 168-242 -- or if you're reading the digital version, up to location 5561 -- below.

Yes, I forgot to make this thread last week. Oops.

Heyo! I'm Tobias, a 28 year old IT sysadmin from Norway. I recently became a dad, so I don't have as much time to read as I'd want, but I've wanted to read IJ for some years (I'm a big Pynchon fan and feel like Wallace hits some of the same notes).

Welcome to the week two Infinite Jest discussion thread. We invite you to share your questions and reflections on pages 94-168 -- or if you're reading the digital version, up to location 3900 -- below.

This week we'll try to just keep everything in one thread. Doesn't really seem pertinent to split spoilers out into its own thread with the low amount of replies we get here.

That said, remember to SPOILER TAG any spoilers for the remainder of the book (ie. anything beyond page 168).

Does Kobo only have percentages? I read on the Kindle, for very much the same reasons you read on Kobo. Percentage is worthless since it doesn't line up with the one in the schedule, which doesn't include the endnotes. Let me know if Kobo uses some other kind of location marker and I can look into making a schedule for that too.

Nice, what Kindle edition? I noticed there were a couple different editions:

http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-D...
http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-D...

Maybe more in other regions too?

I'm a first time reader. As I do all my reading on my Kindle, and people say looking up footnotes is easy digitally, I went with ebook.

Any repeat readers with patina paper copies here?

Welcome to the week one Infinite Jest discussion thread. We invite you to share your questions and reflections on pages 3-94 – or if you're reading the digital version, up to location 2233 – below.

Reminder: This is the spoilers thread. Discussions may reference other characters and plot points from the novel. If you prefer a spoiler-free discussion, check out our other discussion thread.

Oops, is it January 31st already? I'll just copy the threads from reddit and kick things off. Anyone started yet?

Welcome to the week one Infinite Jest discussion thread. We invite you to share your questions and reflections on pages 3-94 – or if you're reading the digital version, up to location 2233 – below.

Reminder: This is a spoiler-free thread, primarily for first time readers. Please avoid referencing characters and plot points that happen after page 94 / location 2233 in the book. We have a separate thread for those who want to talk spoilers.

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