Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace My Big Book series continues. Having already chewed my way through Gravity's Rainbow, I figured I'd better start on that other edifice of (post)modern literature, Infinite Jest. With the experience of the former literary doorstop still heavy in my brain, I was wholly prepared to be disappointed by another hyperintellectual slog through Smugland. So imagine my surprise when Infinite Jest turned out not only good, but in many ways transcendent. Like many postmodern works, IJ holds a rather liberal interpretation of "plot" and "narrative"; you'll start out fairly disoriented before things coalesce into a readable form. The story follows three main characters: Hal Incandenza, tennis prodigy at Enfield Tennis Academy and son of brilliant filmmaker Jim Incandenza; Don Gately, former criminal and opioid addict, who now staffs the Ennet House halfway home; and Rémy Marathe, member of the radical Quebecois separatis...
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