As smart as Pynchon and as much fun to read as Neal Stephenson. The overall tone of the novel was very sad, however there were some extremely funny moments that made me laugh my ass off.
Warning: it's 1000 pages long and has over 300 end notes.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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Re: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
If you can read Pynchon, I think you are smarter than he is. Will check it out.Hagbard wrote:As smart as Pynchon and as much fun to read as Neal Stephenson. The overall tone of the novel was very sad, however there were some extremely funny moments that made me laugh my ass off.
Warning: it's 1000 pages long and has over 300 end notes.
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Your choice of sexual partners indicates otherwise.Hagbard wrote:I am extraordinarily brilliant, for a moose.
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Re: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
?DrDonkeyLove wrote:Your choice of sexual partners indicates otherwise.Hagbard wrote:I am extraordinarily brilliant, for a moose.
Re: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
No, it indicates a lack of standards as well as discretion since I got photographed in the act.DrDonkeyLove wrote:Your choice of sexual partners indicates otherwise.Hagbard wrote:I am extraordinarily brilliant, for a moose.
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Re: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
His ability to drill granite is to be admired.DrDonkeyLove wrote:Your choice of sexual partners indicates otherwise.Hagbard wrote:I am extraordinarily brilliant, for a moose.
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Re: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
I actually like Wallace's non-fiction stuff better. "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" was amazingly erudite and funny at the same time. The essay in his trip aboard a cruise liner was as good a look at the psychology and sociology of the cruise culture as I've ever seen. And I learned a bunch of stuff about tennis, state fairs, David Lynch and Illinois and enjoyed every page of it. Wallace (and Chuck Klosterman) get more out gazing at their navels and their movie and book collections than most people would get out of a year long trip around the world.
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I'm looking forward to reading more of his work, ABW, IJ is my first by DFW. So far this year I've read Against The Day and Infinite Jest in addition to shit loads of lesser works and the usual reams of non-fiction. Right now it is Mason & Dixon; not sure what I'll hit next.
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