infinite summer: infinite jest

has anyone see this floating around the internet?

i n f i n i t e s u m m e r

The Challenge: Read Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009

You've been meaning to do it for over a decade. Now join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace's masterwork, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages (1) ÷ 93 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.

Return to this site on June 1st for full details. In the meanwhile, buy or borrow a copy of the novel, follow us on Twitter (#infsum), join the Facebook group, and clear your literary schedule for the foreseeable future.

(1) Plus endnotes. A lot of them.

i don't know much about this book, but i think this is an interesting undertaking. obviously, LTers do this stuff everyday, but this being out in the wilds of the non-book-junky internet is intriguing. i might just have to jump on board.

thoughts anyone? going to participate?

eta: forgot to add the actual weblink, sheesh.

I saw an announcement like that yesterday, but doubt I will participate. 1,000 pages (with footnotes, I might add).

> jillmwo

yeah. i powered through Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell, which is 1,006 pages with copious footnotes, in exactly a month. i think i have precisely one of these in me a year. it takes a lot out of a person.

eta: don't know why that touchstone won't work...

For anybody who wants to read Infinite Jest, but for whom Feb-Apr 2010 is a more convenient time, this very entertaining LT group will be embarking on a group read then:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/thequestforthelastpa

(Between now and then they're also reading The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr and The Master and Margarita.)