Infinite Jest in On Paths Unknown

Nov 16, 2012 Garima rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Know what they say about novels such as Infinite Jest: Don’t seek Perfection or Pleasure but rather seek the Infinite Possibilities.

I have a lot to say about this book but before that there’s a little I don’t want to say about it. Here it is:

☽This book is never ending.

☽It bored me at times too.

☽Some of the end notes were annoying.

☽I read many other books when I was supposed to read this book.

☽Whenever somebody asked me what IJ was all about, I was unable to come up with a clear-cut answer.

☽I ski ...more

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Nov 30, 2012 Mala rated it it was amazing

Shelves: post-modern-fiction, all-time-favourites, american-writers, best-sellers

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

Disclaimer: This is not a proper meat & potatoes review discussing plot, spoilers, alternate reality etc, etc, rather this is like Gately's shoddy cooking- boiled hot dogs, dense damp meat loaf...my poor food for thought!

The IJ experience:

I'll confess at the outset that, there were times, when this book gave me the screaming meemies, the howling fantods- but true to my completist pledge; just like Don Gately, I plodded on.

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Sep 06, 2015 Philippe Malzieu rated it it was amazing

Simpsons season 23 episod 19 : my first meeting with David Foster Wallace. Nobody talk about him in France. So I search informations. Foster Wallace a litterature meteore, a kind of Rimbaud trash who prefered suicide to Abyssinia, perhaps the better choice. Why ih he so unknown in France, an nevrosis attitude, between the fear to miss a génius and the voluntee not to succomb to a mode.

« Is Foster Walace readable ?». I found this kind of title in french paper. I wanted to have my own opinion . Fo ...more

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Sep 03, 2014 John rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Edit, four days later: Okay okay! I've gotten over the shock of the ending, and I'm upping my rating to five stars. I still don't like (view spoiler), but the rest of it was amazing enough to deserve the fifth star.

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It's not often that a book's ending so dramatically changes how I feel about it. Up until the last few pages, I was ready to shout from the rooftops about Infinite Jest. Then I got to the end:

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