October 5, 2011
So I finished David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest last night (more on that later) and I am starting everybody’s book of the year, it seems: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. We will see how that goes. The suburban American novel genre is interesting. After Freedom I will, in the last year, have read three landmarks of the genre: Freedom, Infinite Jest, and Don DeLillo’s Underworld. 

So I finished David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest last night (more on that later) and I am starting everybody’s book of the year, it seems: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. We will see how that goes. The suburban American novel genre is interesting. After Freedom I will, in the last year, have read three landmarks of the genre: Freedom, Infinite Jest, and Don DeLillo’s Underworld. 

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  1. thisbattleisnotover reblogged this from albatross129 and added:
    Basically, if you can make it about 250 pages in to Infinite Jest, everything starts to… not necessarily come together,...
  2. albatross129 reblogged this from zachstone and added:
    I have started reading all three of these this year, but Infinite Jest fell by the wayside. Freedom is an excellent...
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