[june] i admit, i got filtered within 50 pages of the pale king. i knew ahead of time that the book was written in an intentionally tedious way which is a massive shift from the constant entertainment of infinite jest, but i wasn't quite ready for the whole thing. when i saw my library had a stand-alone story from the pale king i picked it up just to try it out.

this actually might be my favorite thing david foster wallace has ever written. it has a much more mature and emotional style than anything else i've read of his, and the theme of learning to cope with boredom just gets more and more relevant with the trend of people (including myself) disengaging from social media as it gets increasingly pervasive and evil. it feels a bit impossible to write about this without having read the pale king so i'll end this by saying i very much look forward to reading it the next time i feel like losing myself in a long book