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How the World Works
Noam Chomsky
The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939
W.H. Auden
Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's
Samuel Hynes
Collected Poems
W.H. Auden

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace Okay: I admit my reading terminated on page 261. How much is enough for a fair trial? I started with good will but gradually slowed down and became distracted, took time out to read first one different book, then another. I can fully appreciate the qualities in the writing that might attract an enthusiast to persist through the remaining six hundred pages, but for my part, I have formed a judgement that in the same time I can read a number of fine books by other writers and that is what I would prefer to do. When I run short of alternative reading, then I may return to this, because it is not actually bad, but if there is one thing I learned from the Goodreads challenge, there is a limit to the number of books I can read and enjoy in any one year and as fast as I may dispose of my existing collection, there are always new books arriving in my wish list. Infinite Jest has many good qualities, but not enough to detain me longer.