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Well that's just like your opinion man. Infinite Jest is a masterpiece imo. My favorite book of all time and oddly prescient in many ways. For instance, I'm a
by andbberger 7y ago
Well that's just like your opinion man. Infinite Jest is a masterpiece imo.
My favorite book of all time and oddly prescient in many ways.
For instance, I'm aware of at least one startup developing the vid-chat masks Wallace wrote up with a straight face. See also snapchat filters.
- smitty1e 7y agoI haven't read IJ, but the review made it sound like a sober variation on the "Illuminatus Trilogy".
- dx7tnt 7y agoHa. I have those two books back to back on my shelf. I've always thought there was some sort of connection between the two, other than thickness. Infinite Jest is a really amazing piece of work, and it's difficulty, it's obtruseness, it's long-winded pointlessness all contribute to that, in a way above the superficial 'wtf is he going on about wasting time for 30 pages?" picked up on by this article. It's a hard time, and not a book I'd really recommend to anyone at all, but it did strange things to me, and poked me in a way unlike any other writer ever. RIP DFW