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Downvote me: Infinite Jest is Snow Crash for adults. (But seriously: similar vision of a corporate-controlled near-future; and IJ is great, read it.)
by menssen 10y ago
Downvote me: Infinite Jest is Snow Crash for adults.
(But seriously: similar vision of a corporate-controlled near-future; and IJ is great, read it.)
- rfergie 10y agoI've been trying to decide whether to bother with Infinite Jest or not. I've heard very good things about it, but also that it is a pretty tough read. I think your comparison with Snow Crash has swung it for me; IJ is definitely on my reading list now
- nnethercote 10y ago> I've heard very good things about it, but also that it is a pretty tough read. Give it 100 pages. If you don't like it by then -- or at least significant chunks of it -- then you probably won't like the whole thing.
- krylon 10y agoHehe, that is exactly what I did. By page 100 I was hopelessly hooked. It's not an easy book, but I thoroughly enjoyed how it was both intellectually stimulating and extremely funny.
- vertis 10y agoFor those that have never heard of Infinite Jest, it's a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace[1]. It's now on my to read list. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest