I am currently reading Infinite Jest. This may be the year of big male books (I just finished Ulysses after all, which I think threw down the gauntlet in the d*!k waving category.   

Anyway, Infinite Jest is definately readable, although I am not always sure how the current scenario relates to the 'PLOT'.  Is there a PLOT or am I hopelessly modern never to move into the plotless pomo world where other structureless forms exist - like noise music.

Inspite of this, the episodes in I.J. are amusing and somewhat less male than say gravity's rainbow or the entire corpus of Philip Roth.  However, really what I attribute my ability to read this immense tomb is that I am reading it on my iphone or my ipad and this does not reflect that actual printed page of I.J.   

The printed page of I.J is an insurmountable wall of text where as the e-version provides nice small chunks of text and it does not matter whether or not it is intended or punctuated.

The wall of text makes the paperback version of I.J unreadable, but the e-version of I.J readable. On the iphone, though, around 3 iphone pages equal 1 paperback page.  This is much less taxing on my short attention span eyes.

The take away - and this is really the lesson of Apple, web 2.0 and Ikea.  Design Matters.  When you read - design matters.  Lets leave the page long sentences to Proust, I dont really think this contributes to the evolution of the novel.

I dont think I'll pick up my bed side version of IJ - that is a book I will never read.  The e-version though I will probably finish in 2 weeks.