I read the description of the book and was really interested in the ideas it discussed and how relevant they are today, entertainment and addiction but the more I learned about the book the more interesting it became but the less interested I was in actually reading it.
Any books that touch on similar topics but don’t have 1000+ pages 300+ pages of footnotes of footnotes.
by LeoJAkelly
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Idk but I heard you have to give IJ 150 pages before giving up. (I’m only about 75 in after a few months, so I can’t verify this.)
Try:
“White Noise” by Don DeLillo
“The Circle” by Dave Eggers
“Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart
“Feed” by M.T. Anderson
“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro
can confirm that once you get past the 100 mark IJ becomes a lot more accessible and fun to read. but regardless some suggestions off the top of my head:
the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon
angels by denis johnson
anything by delillo
if you’re interested in reading dfw’s short fiction (covers a lot of the same topics) you could probably start with oblivion