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Thoughts While Rearranging My Bookshelf

Infinite Jest front & center

2 min readFeb 18, 2025

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A fully stocked black bookshelf sits in disarray as books overcrowd its shelves in stacks and slants.
The bookshelf of a 16th century boat captain. Photo by on

If I put Brando Unzipped front & center will people think I’m a dick?

If I put Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights front & center will people think I’m a Republican?

Is Matthew McConaughey a Republican?

Am I a dick?

If I put Infinite Jest front & center will people think I’ve read it?

Does reading the first three pages count as reading it?

Sapiens front & center — safe bet.

Are people familiar enough with Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Cleavage to know that it is actually a very progressive book for me to own and not, in fact, erotica?

Kurt Vonnegut section moves a little to the right to make room for new Sally Rooney. So it goes.

Why do I have three copies of Dune?

Is it sexist to put Interview With The Vampire next to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

Ope, guess Gaiman’s gotta go.

So it goes.

Should probably get around to reading Infinite Jest one of these days.

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Brian Buseck
Brian Buseck

Written by Brian Buseck

Brian Buseck is a writer and comic based in NYC. He created the Telly award winning webseries "Codependent" and makes a great grilled cheese.

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