Melissa
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review of Infinite Jest: A Novel:
"This book is long. I mean Russian epic long. The only upside is that the characters don't go by seven different names- Dosteovsky style. I borrowed this from the library 5 weeks ago, but I continue to renew it in an effort not to give up. It's ge...more "
"This book is long. I mean Russian epic long. The only upside is that the characters don't go by seven different names- Dosteovsky style. I borrowed this from the library 5 weeks ago, but I continue to renew it in an effort not to give up. It's ge...more "
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I liked it, and I like Frey's voice, but the one thing I truly hated about this was the lack of punctuation. The style worked for the thoughts going through an addict's head (A Million Little Pieces). It makes NO sense 98% of the time in this book, though. I saw him in NYC and he addressed the issue, saying he writes the way he speaks. But it's like, dude. You don't speak that way.
One of your characters is shitting their pants with fear and not using proper sentences while thoughts race through their mind? Okay. Having entire descriptive paragraphs that say shit like, "As is often the case wherever he goes, even in places where people should know better, all heads turn to stare no words just stares part of the reason is his superstar status part of it is because he's looking so damn good"? Really not okay.
It's too bad, too, because otherwise I would've liked the book a whole lot more. There were parts of it that I absolutely loved, but damn that punctuation! ]]>
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Read it in a little over 3 days. It was pretty engrossing, but some of the passages (mostly the internal discussions) were a little long-winded. ]]>
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I love Palahniuk; he's so nihilistic. The condom discussion was hilarious. But I'm going with 3 stars because the narrator started to grate on my nerves after a while. ]]>
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Couldn't get past the first chapter. It's so wannabe-Fight Club. ]]>