false 6759 11 In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, <B>Infinite Jest</B> bends every rule of fiction, features a huge cast and multilevel narrative, and questions essential elements of American culture - our entertainments, our addictions, our relationships, our pleasures, our abilities to define ourselves. 3271542 1996 Infinite Jest: A Novel total:5418|5:3062|4:1279|3:564|2:289|1:224| 5418 22920 12883 1367 0 68 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 23 18:12:11 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 15:05:32 -0800 2008
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The review is the start of the mini-blog I kept while I was reading it (there is a link at the end to the concluding part)....more...]]> 5 17 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 19 01:11:46 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 11 13:43:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 15 false false Wed Apr 11 15:58:45 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 10:57:59 -0700 2007
Infinite Jest is a mammoth slice of American pie, tipping the scales at 1079 pages, including 388 endnotes. Some of the endnotes have footnotes, too. A book of these proportions is bound to have its nay-sayers, from people who bel...more...]]> 5 15 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 08:38:36 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 11:53:47 -0700 2008
I was sitting on the southeast corner of 54th & Park; the first day I worked with Simon, king crawdaddy of the axe slayers, hardhat in hand shining like an unpeeled orange in the sun. Opened up the book and page one was already impenetrable and confou...more...]]> 2 14 true false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Sep 28 12:48:58 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 13:07:39 -0700 2007 Infinite Jest:

Nearly a decade after publication, David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest remains a literary ink-blot test. With its 1,079 pages (including nearly 400 footnotes), and its fondness for gags, drugs, cult...more...]]> 1 9 false false Sat Mar 29 17:28:57 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 16:33:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 24 02:57:02 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 11 05:06:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 49 false false Thu May 08 20:27:45 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 22 15:37:25 -0700 2009
i think it is time to write a proper review for this book, as it is one of my all-time favorites and deserves way more than two words. back when i was a junior in college, i was at the nyu bookstore, trying to sell back some textbooks before going away for winter break. the p...more...]]> 1 7 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 17 11:47:39 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 11:48:24 -0700 2007
This book is a giant pile of pretentious drivel. With a thousand pages and hundreds of endnotes (endnotes dammit! you need two bookmarks for this shit!) it's a book full of promises that are never delivered. By the end it feels like a practical joke has been ...more...]]> 4 4 true false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 21 06:37:33 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 07:09:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 13:44:36 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 21:39:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 18 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 08:25:15 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:50:08 -0700 2009 Infinite Jest is a faultle...more...]]> 2 4 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 08:38:47 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 08:41:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 21 22:23:07 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 05 07:28:35 -0800 2009
This book is brilliant and anyone that tells you otherwise ... well they s...more...]]> 0 2 false false Mon Oct 19 13:48:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 13:27:45 -0700 2009 2 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymarti...
The Infinite Summer read was my second time through this amazing book. First time was an enthralled but impatient sprint, much like Wendy Macleod describes in you...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 27 06:45:56 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 09:54:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Sep 16 09:03:19 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 09:06:45 -0700 2008
Bad news: David Foster Wallace hung himself Friday night, at the age of 46. While I didn't cry, I ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Sat Jun 28 22:04:26 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 17:51:57 -0700 2008
Sad news -- just read that DFW is no longer with us as of 9.12.08. Apparently he hung himself. It feels like a friend is suddenly gone. Of course, I didn't know him, but reading his work over the years and really liking it and getting all excited to see his name in th...more...]]>