3.75 avg rating — 176,000 ratings

"A fresh and innovative approach to storytelling (and a great story to boot)."

3.69 avg rating — 57,975 ratings

"A tale told from the womb."

3.97 avg rating — 37,450 ratings

"It lives up to its title. Absorbing."

3.97 avg rating — 1,299 ratings

"Jumps between a Viking/Native American God legend and a modern day travelogue with random intentionally vague illustrations."

4.25 avg rating — 101,649 ratings

"Footnotes. Lots and lots of exhaustive footnotes, many of which are integral to the story. That and the way Wallace will shift from one character to another mid-paragraph by changing the syntax."

3.40 avg rating — 21,719 ratings

"That middle chapter. The one with the 12 page sentence. Sure, it's showy but then Jazz solos always are. "

4.01 avg rating — 48,325 ratings

"Those wierd bits of doggerel---poems, limericks, songs--that pop up throughout the book."

4.17 avg rating — 57,695 ratings

"The epic poem, the delusional narrator, the meta ending.
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3.79 avg rating — 241,670 ratings

"It takes a bit to understand what's going on, but it's undeniably clever."