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I am appreciating the writing and attention to detail in A Wizard of Earthsea.
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Brothers, about Infinite Jest:

The central plot isn't necessary; like Hitchcocks's McGuffins, it's an excuse to tell a story, and the character interactions/set pieces are the enjoyable, central part of the book.

Also the central plot is a retelling of Hamlet.

Boojiboy7 Broom of the System is Infinite Jest lite so maybe read that instead.

I like DFW's style but when he started talking about the mathematics of Eschaton I had to take a break: you can't integrate an undefined equation NNNNNGGGG *flings book across room*
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Adilegian, high 5 :high 5:

I can't recommend Lem enough. Cyberiad is still my favourite, because it is his most lighthearted book.

I read The Investigation a few months ago, as it was the only book of his that had been translated into english that I hadn't read. It's about a detective trying to solve a crime that has no solution, and is a nice counterpoint to Chain of Chance.
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The english translation of Solaris is pretty flat, I wish Michael Kandel would translate it.
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shnoz, the pdf goes all the way to 10

re-reading Gödel, Escher, Bach because I'm felling all mathsy after my holiday
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Finished reading Schild's Ladder which made visiting Szczecin more bearable.

This is the first Egan book I've read where the big ending sequence of humans transcending space and time actually turned out to be positive.
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Adol there is no such thing as too Burroughs

I don't know how to expound without ruining the plot of all the Egan books I've read! Suffice it to say that Schild's Ladder doesn't end with the quiet extinguishing of post-bodily post-human consciousness in some hyper-dimensional quantum computer careening off the edge of the universe

also hot damn Egan's home page has an animation of the border
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shrug I am going to jump right into The New York Trilogy cold after carting it around the world and ignoring it, the most I know about Paul Auster is what you just posted; is this a good idea?

Just as soon as I finish The Russia House, which is surprisingly
"jolly good show old chap eh what" so far.
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The Man in the High Castle has me by the balls and I love it.
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Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang