Mike Miley shares Some Thoughts on Infinite Jest During the Infinite Summer over at the Huffington Post which includes his contemplations on the other books on his shelf now that he has finished Infinite Jest. Mike Miley writes:
The problem is, though, that I've started seeing some of these other books, and I'm just not that into them. This is a serious problem for a bookworm: now that I've finished Infinite Jest, other books just aren't holding my attention anymore. [...] These are great books, and I can understand and appreciate them in the abstract, but the compulsion to pick them up, to press ahead, to lose myself in them, just hasn't been there. [...] What gives? Am I going through some kind of nerdy literary withdrawal? Am I addicted to Infinite Jest?
Mike's words resonate heavily with me and remind me of many post IJ reading experiences. Only in the last few years have I been able to avoid comparing every single thing I read to IJ. I'm glad I've been able to do this, because it is not fun imagining a future version of myself complaining that nothing in the previous 60 years has surpassed Infinite Jest...
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