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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

1,158

Total Points

#405

4.0 (3 reviews)
Pages
1079

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to...

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forline

Dec 31st, 2017

I did not enjoy this. True, I laughed out loud, and I kept the commitment to finish...but I do not understand the genius of this novel.

bryanoz

Jun 9th, 2015

bdunk23

Jul 30th, 2013

giant of a book. great for jail. if you go to jail, have someone send you this book. if you know someone in jail, send them this book. psychedelic for sure