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 … need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human — and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
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“Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.” Mark Twain.
Infinite Jest, written by David Foster Wallace, was published in 1996. It has been described as a modern classic. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 best English-language novels for the years 1923-2005. The title of the novel comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, …
Complicated, thought provoking yet still wacky.
Practically perfect in every way.
This is the most amazing book I have ever read!!
This is a truly unique mind and distinctive creator. As long and difficult as the book was, I didn’t ever want it to end. One of the best books I have ever read.
Probably the most cutting-edge literary novel of the last 20 years. Not a week-end beach book – from a master writer and master describer.
TBT: I will never finish this book. I’ve gotten a few chapters in several times, but it’s an intense book. The story is prescient, and I love everything that happens in that damn house. LOL sigh…
I can legit recommend The Pale King. It’s wonderful. A gift to his fans.
The best book I’ve ever read.
Stick with it the pay off is amazing. One of the best books – EVER
I am incredibly ambivalent about this book. There are so many things that are right, so many things just weird or original, and much that could use some serious editing that it is hard to say until you reach the end how it will all flesh out as a whole. The best review I have read is Warwick’s very witty Good Reads review, which brilliantly …