10 Reasons Why "Infinite Jest" Remains The Most Frustrating Book Ever Written

Submitted by kbloom on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:02
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I get it, I get it, it's a loop, right, annulation. Ha ha ha. Joke's on us.

Bastard.

snoozer07/13/2000

what about #8, #4, and #3...?
the footnotes, the footnotes, the footnotes.

Antihero07/13/2000

Who wrote this? Any book that prompts a reaction towards the author of, simply, "Bastard." is something I have to check out =)

jim07/13/2000

David Foster Wallace.

ender22d07/13/2000

Like many others, I suffered (suffered horribly) through the first 120 pages of IG only to be defeated. The darling of the late 90's could not convince me that I should try to plumb its depths of arcania to try to pull something meaningful out if it. Perhaps that's the point, however. BTW, my copy of it is currently mocking me from its place on one of my shelves....

busy07/27/2001

Argh! I tried so hard to get into this book! just couldn't do it. i even took IJ (and only IJ) on a 6 hour plane ride but, no dice. i read the vomit bag instead and watched "The Replacements" (bad movie)with expensive rental headphones.