While I was reading host by David Foster Wallace, I noticed that I kept getting sidetracked by the footnotes that were actually within the text and not on the bottom where they should be. When I am reading, I usually read some of the footnotes on the bottom of the page, but not all of them because it tends to get annoying and tedious after the first couple of pages. So, I did ignore some of the footnotes in Host, although it gave me some more background information on what I was reading and made me feel like I was actually there.
Overall, this type of writing is different than what I am used to, but I'm glad I got to experience this type of reading. The footnotes were annoying many times, but because they were funny I had the will to keep reading a lot of them.
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