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julie_henry 's review for:
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
For the first several hundred pages, I did not enjoy Infinite Jest. My inner monologue went something like: "What is going on? This is boring. I don't care about tennis. Is this footnote ever going to end? I can't remember all of these names." And so on. But then, at some point, things started to click into place. I began to like the book more and more. By the end, I loved it. It took me two months to read it, and I already want to read it again- to really dig up its secrets.
Infinite Jest is unlike anything I've read before. It's difficult to connect with, but rewarding and intriguing once you do. The only other media that has given me a similar feeling is "Twin Peaks." While the subject matter is obviously quite different, both elicit feelings of confusion, frustration, and obsessive desire to figure out what in the hell is going on. Also, both compel me to stay up far too late reading theories on the internet.
Infinite Jest is unlike anything I've read before. It's difficult to connect with, but rewarding and intriguing once you do. The only other media that has given me a similar feeling is "Twin Peaks." While the subject matter is obviously quite different, both elicit feelings of confusion, frustration, and obsessive desire to figure out what in the hell is going on. Also, both compel me to stay up far too late reading theories on the internet.