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Re:Being a bad friend to David Foster Wallace by rrdharan on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#17981851)
I gave up on it at around the 1/3 point for 10+ years. Trying to read the paperback was a frustrating exercise when I was too OCD to ever skip a footnote.

I went back to it on my Kindle and finally finished it a few years ago and am very glad I did, I really enjoyed it.

Re:Being a bad friend to David Foster Wallace by thatcat on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:14PM (#17983539)
That experience is purposeful, it creates a break between the narrative and meta-narrative voices. I didn't think it was too awful with 2 bookmarks - kinda reminded me of doing math hw, some of the one word ones like Sic., etc. did get tiresome though.