Hey mate! Happy to meet someone who has read DFW! And twice! I really admire it, because, not that I am an incredible reader, but I am not one to abandon reading and I have read many long books, and as you said,
the question is related to this feeling of exhaustion of reading and the fact that it is literally encyclopedic about infinite non-existent things in fact. It's an incredible job. And I didn’t particularly abandon reading because of the bitter and heavy parts, honestly they even excited me,
there are chapters there that are true works in themselves, but I think what made me stop was the feeling of: -I surrender, I am no match for such complexity and weariness in trying to maintain a multi-focus in this vast and mega detailed universe . However, I always knew it would be a pause to catch my breath, and here I am,
saying that yesterday i decided to read it again, i will start from scratch, obviously. Let's see how it goes. But I will persist, until the end of the year I must end! Lol