Book :: Infinite Jest
| By: | David Foster Wallace |
| Pages: | 1079 |
| Published: | 1996 |
| Genre(s): | American |
| Humor | |
| Literary Fiction | |
| Rating: | (3) |
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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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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.
Dec 31st, 2017
bdunk23
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
Jul 30th, 2013
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71st on The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review
