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Loading... Infinite Jestby David Foster Wallace
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st... This is simply one of the greatest post-WWII American novels. The measure of its greatness to me is that I have very little interest in any of the big subjects of the book—tennis, AA and Quebecian separatists, but it just doesn’t matter. Unlike so many other novels that get labeled postmodern, the level of detail in the writing is phenomenal and the characters are so vivid that you truly believe that you’ve personally met them all. This is probably my favorite book. My actual review would probably need to be a whole book, but suffice to say this is the book I would take with me to a desert island. Maybe my favorite 1st sentence ever. Another comedic epic in the vein of Gravity's Rainbow (multiple plot / location structure definitely reminds me of Pynchon) and Ulysses. The footnotes make it uniquely DFW but honestly, that shit's annoying and doesn't add much. I read this in my twenties. Made me crawl up into a drug coma and mourn my pitiful intellect and writing ability. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0316920045, Hardcover)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, Infinite Jest 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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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